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Anonymous asked in Science & MathematicsEarth Sciences & Geology · 1 month ago

I don’t understand this pyramid stuff!!?

How did the Egypt people make enough sand to build the pyramids and surround the whole area with crazy amounts of sand!! We only made a bit of sand to put in beaches but these people made sooo much sand they made a whole area of just endless sand and then built pyramids using the sand!! How can they make this much sand?!?!

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  • 3 weeks ago

    The sand was already there. They quarried sand stone from there and surrounding areas to build the pyramids. The cap was brought from other places. Look up pyramids on Wikipedia. 

  • 4 weeks ago

    When they built the pyramids, they had to move huge blocks of stone over long distances.

  • Tom
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    Look at a 50 story building ---Now try to get a stone the size of the average bathroom to the top of it without using a crane or wheels.----That's the kind of problems we have to solve concerning pyramids.---Sand is nothing

  • 4 weeks ago

    Okkkkayyy then.....

    Some of us here are older than dirt and sand. So when it got delivered we had to use our shovels(made by shaping stone and tying them to sticks with animal gut) to spread the dirt and sand where it was supposed to go.  But there weren't very many of us and our flat stones kept falling of the end of the sticks. that's why we still have lots of sand in places and lots of dirt in other places.

    Plus we didn't have unions yet and no one would pay us overtime so we eventually all just quit and went to the tavern. I'm not sure who built the pyramids but since they wouldn't pay overtime but  it wasn't me or any of my coworkers.

  • 4 weeks ago

    The ancient Egyptians were a very advanced lot.  They had giant buildings, roads and cars.  The fumes from these caused the air to heat up and the rains to fail until the plants died.  The wind blew away the fine clays leaving only the heavy sands left behind.  The scientists warned them calling it "ground warming".

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    They hauled an insane number of stone blocks to the site. Guess what sand is made of.

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    Aliens were bored, so one day they decided to travel millions of light years to Earth then built pyramids. What's so hard to understand?

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    They over-farmed.

    Seriously, that's how the Sahara was made. No joke.

  • 1 month ago

    They used Hebrew slaves! It's in the Bible!

  • Anonymous
    1 month ago

    huh? troll, the sand was always there, formed by natural processes.

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