Archaeologists believe they have found the key to unlocking a mystery almost as old as the Great Pyramid itself: Who built the structure and how were they able to transport two-ton blocks of stone to the ancient wonder more than 4,500 years ago? — Newsweek
The pyramid's stones were known to have been transported from over 500 miles away but archeologists did not agree on how ancient Egyptians achieved it . Recent discoveries suggest that the stones were transported using boats and a network of waterways leading to the site of the pyramid in Giza.
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The National Enquirer has more veracity and less hyperbole than Newsweek.
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The information contained in the referenced Newsweek article is suspect. Paragraph three (3) reads, in part, “Experts had long established that the stones from the pyramid’s chambers were transported from as far away as Luxor, more than 500 miles to the south of Giza, the location of the Great Pyramid…”
The stone [granite] that constitutes Khufu’s “King’s Chamber”, and the traversing/spanning beams of the ‘relieving chambers’ above was quarried at Aswan. Aswan is over one hundred (100) air miles further south of Luxor from Giza.
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