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Ancient Pyramids Built Inside-Out

by Tim Stevens on April 12, 2007 at 11:15 AM

Great Pyramid of Egypt
The Great Pyramid has been a topic of debate for a long, long time, longer even than debates about video game consoles or arguments over whether The Monkees or New Kids on the Block were the original boy band.

Various theories have been proposed to explain how people who didn't even have pulleys or iron tools could manage to build the hulking structures that still stand after all these years. Theories range from alien technology to mystical, magical powers.

Researcher Jean-Pierre Houdin says that the answer is much more simple: they just used available techniques like sleds and counterweights to build the things from the inside out. He used technology from Dassault Systèmes to create 3-D computerized models of the pyramids, replicating not only their look and dimensions but also details like the weight of the individual stones and their layout. He then virtually recreated the pyramids a block at a time (surely faster than the Egyptians did way back when).

So now--perhaps--we can put the aliens to rest and get back to the debates that really matter.

From gizmag

Tags: Debate, Pyramids

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