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[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

I was under the impression that they put the blocks on boats and floated them down the Nile to the correct location. If that's not what they did, that's what they should have done. Would be way easier than manually pulling the blocks

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah actually just last year some researchers found an ancient branch of the Nile running through the giza plateau which explains the location of a lot of monuments:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01379-7

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

That seems likely, now that I think about it. Although those barges must have been absolutely fucking massive.

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