While nobody actually knows for certain, most literature seems to agree that the pyramids were built one layer at a time, with earthen ramps leading up to the layer currently under construction. (Slave-)workers would then haul the stones on sleighs up these ramps.
I really enjoyed this book on the subject when I was a kid.
Hell yes.
http://www.amazon.com/Pyramid-David-Macaulay/dp/0395321212
Hell Yes!
Unbuilding
City
Underground
Castle
Pyramid
Mill
Cathedral
Mosque
David Macaulay is the MAN. I
loved these books when I was a kidlove these books!Are you sure it's not from https://www.amazon.com/Pyramid-David-Macaulay/dp/0395321212
While nobody actually knows for certain, most literature seems to agree that the pyramids were built one layer at a time, with earthen ramps leading up to the layer currently under construction. (Slave-)workers would then haul the stones on sleighs up these ramps.
I really enjoyed this book on the subject when I was a kid.