Great Pyramid at Giza

[Darkwing Duck]

This is a good point, but the consensus these days seems to be that the pyramids were primarily built using skilled laborers, not slaves.

Even to move the blocks 500 miles?

And let me ask a question. If the pharaoh told a slave to move a rock, anything other than compliance is death. If the pharaoh told a skilled laborer to build a pyramid, would anything other than compliance still lead to death?

If my memory serves, I recall anyone in Egypt during this time had several months each year of compelled service to the pharaoh. Grand projects like the pyramids are a result.

 

[Zombie]

Even to move the blocks 500 miles?

And let me ask a question. If the pharaoh told a slave to move a rock, anything other than compliance is death. If the pharaoh told a skilled laborer to build a pyramid, would anything other than compliance still lead to death?

If my memory serves, I recall anyone in Egypt during this time had several months each year of compelled service to the pharaoh. Grand projects like the pyramids are a result.

https://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html

I found this pretty convincing.

 

[Eminence]

Y'all seen that video of the grandpa in Michigan moving big-*** blocks by himself (I think he was making some sort of Stonehenge replica)? There's that Coral Castle thing down in Florida as well. Simple tools really are amazing things.

 

[silesian]

How do you measure density without first knowing the mass?

you can

If it sinks in a liquid with known density of 1.005 g/cm3 and floats in a substance with known density of 1.015, you know the density is 1.010 plus or minus 0.005

Hydrometers use this principle to directly measure density without measuring mass. Chemists and home brewers use them.