How Did Herodotus Build The Pyramids?

Out of many past ancient civilizations, the Egyptian empire was one of the most culturally influencing and architecturally advanced. During the duration of its oldest period of stability, dubbed “The Old Kingdom”, one of the most recognizable Egyptian structures was designed and built multiple times over the course of approximately 300 years, until the Egyptian kingdom was unstable. The pyramids were built with polished limestone in order for them to be aesthetically pleasing, and other blocks such as granite and sandstone as an internal base. However, these structures were not only built to be gorgeous monuments and landmarks, as they also served the purpose as past pharaohs and other government officials burial sites. It is unknown how exactly

Herodotus 's theory came from his original writings during his visit to the construction zone of the pyramids. He described the construction with large ramps that the Egyptian workers would transport the building blocks up on. They did this by pushing the blocks on logs and rolling them up the ramps by using the logs as wheels. These theory is extremely improbable as the ramps made to push the blocks would have to be over one mile long, and would take more effort to make than the pyramids themselves. Furthermore, it was improbable that the workers could even push the blocks for over a mile of distance, as the blocks were over two tons and it would require inhuman man-power to lift and move them. Herodotus’s writing also happened to be very historically inaccurate, as his writings were written about two thousand years after the pyramids were actually built. Furthermore, many Egyptologists choose not to believe this theory as the workers built the pyramid out of fear instead of worship, as this was morally and somewhat objectively wrong. Many pharaohs were revered as they were seen as gods themselves, so it was unlikely that they disliked them, and several historians do not want certain aspects of history, especially to such a great caliber of the pyramids, to be associated with slave

His idea was more of an “outside of the box” theory, because instead of believing that the pyramids were built from the outside, he believed they were built from the inside. He theorized that as the pyramids were build from their foundation, they would also be build with internal ramps, which would have been easier to build than the ramps built in the previously mentioned Herodotus 's theory. The blocks would be dragged through the pyramids internal ramp, most likely with rope, and then when the blocks reached a corner, they would either be placed, or repositioned with rope to be sent somewhere else. This part alone has very substantial amounts of evidence as there was a notch discovered on the Great Pyramid of Giza that lies on the same 7% grade that the ramp would be at during the time of the construction, which means that this notch was very likely one of the places where they would redirect blocks. To also support the internal ramps, a full scale x-ray was done of the Great Pyramid in the nineteen eighties by a team of french Egyptologists and showed evidence of an internal spiral within the structure. In addition, Houdin further explained the reasoning of the grand gallery, which was thought to be a hall for transport or an extra tomb for the pharaoh. His reasoning for the gallery was that it