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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
Lets also not forget that they were built by trial and error. There was also a lengthy evolutionary process in their design and construction. Whether you're talking about the pyramid types which evolved as their experience grew or the simple, undisputed fact that the first step pyramids all fared poorly and collapsed.
It's not like they woke up one day and on a whim decided to build the massive pyramids that still exist today.. they worked up to that over centuries of trial and error.
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I am unaware of centuries of trial and error so I cannot speak to that. However, it does appear like someone did get into the mix and show them how to make one correctly.
These are not crude structures. They are incredibly complex that required a level of sophistication to build that has today's greatest minds scratching their heads as to how they accomplished it. How they did it without power tools or machinery, trucks or cranes is only a part of it. The design and engineering is also impressive and seems far too sophisticated for civilization at that time.
I earned a paycheck as a Mason for over 25 years and have worked on job sites ranging from single family homes to high rise buildings. I've used transits to check elevation and I've guided cranes as we flew building materials into the floors of a high rise building. The heaviest single piece I laid as a mason was window sills in a government building that weighed 350 lbs a piece. A guy on a forklift would bring the sill over to the window and me and another Mason would have to lift it and set it in place and then make sure it was level. We placed those on all the windows of an eight story building. Knowing the work that took it blows my mind the amount of work it must have took for the Egyptians to get a block from the quarry to it's final resting place in the pyramid.
Its not just the physical labor though, its the knowledge it took to build the Great Pyramids that seems out of place and thats what has some people puzzled.