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Originally Posted by Lottoguy
Good video on YT showing how copper saws used at the time just doesn't work cutting granite blocks. Advanced tech is the only way it could have been done.
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Pyramid builders used softer stone but to some extent used pink granite, one of the harder ones, used a hammer stone to beat away the surrounding stone, talk about labor intensive, the quarries show the work.
1,000 t[22] Ramesseum Statue Thebes, Egypt Ancient Egypt Transported 170 miles (270 km) by ship from Aswan