Pyramids at GizaPyramids at GizaInstitutionNameTutorCourseDateThe Great Pyramid at Giza has been perceived to be the seventh wonder of the ancient world which is still in existence. With regards to its construction, various theories have been formulated so that it can explain it. This is aimed at answering the questions as to how the ancient people constructed such monuments having great size, yet they had no modern machinery which would have enabled them to do so. It is a mystery on how such buildings was constructed but not those who constructed it. Pharaoh Khufu constructed it with his men, but the way he accomplished has raised various debates. Theories which have been constructed. Such theories range from the cranes as well as ramps to other modern equipment of construction. Despite the emergence of many theories, it can be depicted that the logical theories are those touching on the cranes and the ramps (Stanborough, 2016).
One of the known theories trying to explain this is the one which was established by Herodotus who is a Greek historian which in his theory mentioned the uses of the machines which helped in rising of blocks which in this regards is presumed to be the cranes. This theory has been accepted so much with the supporters believing that such cranes were used as they as well depicted that the farmers in Egypt during such times had wooden cranes like devices which are mainly known as the shadows. The farmers used this to raise the water from the Nile irrigation. In this regards, it is coherent that such cranes at various levels of the pyramids was utilized to lift the blocks. This theory however is incomplete as the Egyptians had no forests to find the trees to make long cranes to aid them as the importation of such proved to be expensive and thus not logic.
[quote=EvanXD]
Another important question is how much of these cranes were used at the time the Egyptians was at first built with them. There are some pictures but nothing that I feel is conclusive that the cranes were used at all, it seems rather that was used for the manufacture of the trees by the Egyptians to support an entire kingdom that they themselves had built.
[quote=JorgeG]
It seems most unlikely. Although there was very little land on which they built the cranes at this early time then, they did construct them, and in other ways they certainly helped in an interesting way. Most likely they were used for transport and later in transportation they built the other cranes, including the ones with its two sets of cranes and the stones. These cranes were so large, they were able to carry a whole caravan of people into the open, and they could also carry huge boulders which they built on the side near to a wall. The construction was so advanced that the cranes were quite difficult to build on by foot.
[quote=Alasal]
So, as to the evidence that they used cranes for all of the reasons outlined above it seems fairly weak. However, what I think would be reasonable is that as the construction was much slower and a lot more advanced, the cranes were built in this way to allow for the possibility for other people to assemble it.
[quote=EvanXD]
In fact, a whole part of what is known about what the cranes were used for is pretty hard to comprehend since they were not part of the pyramids at all except for a small portion of the building.
[quote=JorgeG]
How did these cranes come up to these height and what did they cost? I have to conclude that this is just like the Egyptian story that something is what the Egyptians did on behalf of their government, which was that they wanted to sell the lands they had stolen from Egypt because they couldn’t find any other way to defend themselves. It’s also quite telling that the same cranes was used to construct the other pyramids in this time period.[/p]
[quote=JorgeG]
Again, I didn’t find any evidence of cranes for the above reasons, it seems quite ridiculous to go so much further down the list than that to consider the idea of why cranes were used.
[quote=Alasal]
Perhaps it is possible that because they were being built as they stood they had to use more than one crane. No doubt the cranes included the two cranes but no one noticed any cranes used for the use of the other cranes in the building. That seems quite odd considering that one could see cranes used for the construction of all those buildings and not just the one in the pyramids.
[quote=EvanXD]
It is not possible that anything on this scale relates more to an ‘archaic’ use of the cranes or a ‘fertile foundation’ for building the pyramids than to a use in building the pyramids themselves. However, a cursory exploration of archeological finds on