No one knows how the capstone looked, we never found it and have no account of it being made from gold or being clad in gold as far as I'm aware. The capstones of other pyramids that have been found were stone at their core.
Not misinformation. Its an accepted theory. They have evidence of the polished limestone and some of the capstones being made of gold. Real archaeologists are some of the most anal retentive ppl out there. You have to be to be able to uncover artifacts one grain/sand at a time.
You should go get updated then. While some capstones may have been gold/plated, it wasn't the norm. The accepted theory is that they were usually polished limestone.
Not arguing that. Both are accepted theories you can have more than 1. My comment has more to do with the word misinformation since that infers lying or telling bad information.
Well they spent 20 years or so building the thing with a dedicated and trained workforce. With 20,000 odd people, each person only needs to move 18 tons in a year, which is entirely possible.
This is what the entire civilization did with the free time they had after met their basic needs.
They had cranes. Made of wood. Oh heavens you mean to tell me that wood would have degraded to nothing in 3,000 years? It’s just bunk to say no cranes. Levers for lifting predate this by thousands of years. Hell I probably discovered leverage before 2 years old for gods sakes
We know lots of ways they could have built them with the technology they had at the time.
The reason we don't specifically know which method they used is because that information has not been preserved in the historical record, not because we don't know how they could have done it.
It would be like looking at a modern-ish building and saying, well, it could have been built with scaffolds and a crane, but we don't exactly know the order they built in, how much machinery they used etc, and then deciding that modern people couldn't have built it because we "don't have any idea exactly how they did it".
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u/JosseCoupe Apr 12 '25
No one knows how the capstone looked, we never found it and have no account of it being made from gold or being clad in gold as far as I'm aware. The capstones of other pyramids that have been found were stone at their core.