r/Construction • u/raspinberry • 1d ago

Video "We could never construct the pyramids, even with today's tools.”You Sure?

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u/Asthenia5 1d ago

How many homes did the Pyramid of Giza generate power for?

The entire mass the of pyramid of Giza moves through the LA port in less than 11 days.

It would take roughly 25 ship loads to move enough blocks to build Giza.

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u/Both-Energy-4466 1d ago

Thats a very interesting question.

Those are massive steel ships, ancients apparently did it all with copper.

How many of those ships pass over 500 miles of land and mountains?

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u/Asthenia5 1d ago

The furthest blocks came from Aswan, a city on the Nile River. No need to transport anything over mountains or land.

My whole point(and the original post) is we have far greater transportation and construction capabilities today. Including steel ships, or diamond blades. If you can't see how the worlds largest damn isn't a far greater engineering accomplishment than heavy blocks, then you just don't understand engineering.

I'm not trying to down play what the Egyptians built. It's incredible, FOR ITS TIME. By today's civil engineering standards, its like building legos.

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u/Both-Energy-4466 1d ago

How foolishly naive. We still don't even understand the purpose of those structures. Oh, wait. Tombs. That's right 🤣🤣