Is that a crane?
Yup. The model should be different, but the Egyptians were already well aware of the crane and its usefulness. Picture related:
For further info look for "shadoof". Those are still used nowadays, not just in Egypt but elsewhere; it's mostly for liquids but I can picture it being used for other stuff, like sand, lime, and the likes. It wouldn't work for the main stones but it would be really handy for the cement (check what @VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee mentioned).
Street lamp using a Dendera light bulb and Baghdad battery.
I am 100% straight but I would tear a hole in Milo Rossi's twink ass. (Remember chances of that happening is very small, given that I messaged him on the gram to tell him that the 'Scroll in a Pot' is still practiced where I live, and he probably thought I'm a kid trying to lead him on but truly, I have seen some very ancient people
and by ancient I mean 70-80 yo, put a scroll in a small pottery pitcher ('kuzeh' in Persian) and bury it).
Oh
The pyramids were mostly early cement.
"The stones also had a high water content--unusual for the normally dry, natural limestone found on the Giza plateau--and the cementing phases, in both the inner and outer casing stones, were amorphous, in other words, their atoms were not arranged in a regular and periodic array. Sedimentary rocks such as limestone are seldom, if ever, amorphous."
As far as I can tell, that theory is quite fringe and does not have much support from peer reviewed tests.
The quarry is basically next to the pyramids, and the main issue with transportation was most likely space constraints: there's only so many people that can work at a given time on the pyramid itself, regardless of how much manpower the Pharoah could muster.
Carrying up millions of tons of powder sounds way less practical than carrying the solid stones to me, and making them off-site just to carry them up doesn't seem to make sense.
Should've made the scientist look more like James Spader.
If I remember right, Stargate's antagonists didn't build the pyramids, they had them built. By humans. (And even if I don't remember right, it's still plausible.)
The question becomes: How much alien tech was needed?
Even in that universe, the answer might be "none". People can be remarkably resourceful if told "Here are the measurements. Get to it. Or die."
Their true legacy will be their fabulous eyebrows which shall be remembered for thousands of years.
And their unique way of walking
Stock Facebook comment: "they r walking among us now thats for shore. The government has known for 70 years"
I can't lift a brick off ground - proof aliens did pyramids.
Honestly I feel like this is a compliment of itself, like sure they don't believe that you did it but they don't believe that you did it. Imagine it being so good that they don't believe you actually accomplished it now that's an accomplishment of itself
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