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When the Egyptians built the pyramids they faced many problems ranging from labor, political motives, and religious factions making it difficult to complete their work. For years now people have wondered how they Egyptians did it. Today we still debate over how long it took and what methods were used in carrying out the construction of the pyramids. These methods are then compared and contrasted with other the theories.

The excepted theory for how the ancients moved these huge rocks involved pulling and dragging large stones across vast amounts of terrain from the quarry to the building site. I have a different Idea though.

First let me point out that dragging a huge object through tons of sand and dirt is not an easy accomplishment. Think back for a moment when you were a little child playing in the sand box trying to push your hot wheel car through the sand, can you picture all the sand working its way up over the front of the car and onto your hand. Next think about trying to push a log across your yard in the grass, not a very easy task to accomplish. How about taking a limb and rolling it through the mud? These are the kind of problems facing theories about Ancient Egyptians accomplished moving these stones.

Using tree limbs as rollers and dragging the stones across the ground would not be a very easy task in muddy conditions. Dragging the stone across sandy terrain would be just as much a nightmare due to the large amounts of sand pilling up in front of the huge stone. Grassy terrain would be the easiest yet least encountered terrain on this journey.

Now think for a second at the fact that we know the Egyptians were great mathematicians, but somehow we forget this when it comes to theorizing how they moved these great, massive stones across vast distances. Think back to log in the front yard, would it not be easier, and quicker to roll it across the yard. What about the hot wheels in the sand, if you rolled that car over there would be no sand build up to remove in front of the car or on top of your hand. Rolling a large object through muddy areas is much easier that smaller object as the larger objects have more area in contact with the ground.

To start with the Egyptians would have cut out rough partially rectangular, partially round lumpy stones not perfectly flat sided stones at the quarry. These stones would have had a rough texture. This type texture and shape would have helped the stone roll and gain better traction without much deviation in direction.

The ancient Egyptians would most certainly have had the knowledge to figure out just how much leverage it would take to flip of those stones over. Further more they would also have the knowledge of how to use round stones with groves worn in them sort of like pulleys. If you take the idea of wrapping long ropes around a stone, sort of like a yoyo, except our yoyo would be a little lumpy, and the idea of some sort of pulley system being employed and securely anchored ahead of where you are going, you have a basic machine built for moving rocks. The only difficult part is to keep the rope wrapped around the stone. To do this, you would simply keep adding rope in adjacent slots that would wrap its self around the rock while the other rope is unwinding; turn the rock 180 degrees, rinse and repeat. This machine would roll the huge stones along the ground instead of dragging them and it would take far less time and energy to accomplish the task of moving those stones.

As of posting this article these ideas are purely theoretical, however I plan on posting future articles with diagrams, pictures from a proof of concept, and possible even trying to gain funding for further research into my idea.