They used a ramp, obviously, but in this video John Heisz demonstrates (with little wooden blocks!) a method of lifting the stones and ramping against an under-construction pyramid that's more efficient that those often proposed: How I Would Build The Great Pyramids.
The fact is no-one knows for sure how they did this. … I know one thing for certain, though. It wasn't with the help of aliens from outer space.
There has been no shortage of Boing Boing posts about recreating effects from Disneyland's The Haunted Mansion. A few years back, I made a Pepper's Ghost-style picture frame of the… READ THE REST
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