A controversial analysis contends that ancient engineers designed a water-powered elevator to hoist stones for King Djoser’s pyramid.
Waterpower may have given a big lift to builders of Egypt’s oldest known pyramid, the nearly 4,700-year-old Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara.
No generally accepted explanation exists for how ancient Egyptians erected pyramids out of millions of massive blocks. Those stones could weigh up to around 2,500 kilograms each. Proposed techniques for maneuvering pyramids’ building blocks include ramps, cranes, rope-and-pulley devices andthat borders a chain of 31 pyramids, including Djoser’s.
Researchers have previously proposed that the trench, known as the Dry Moat, served as a quarry for Djoser’s burial complex or as But Gisr el-Mudir and its nearby lake ensured that the Dry Moat was not always dry in Djoser’s time, Landreau says. In the team’s model, water from the Dry Moat entered two large, previously excavated shafts, including a north shaft situated inside the pyramid. Granite chambers near the bottom of both shafts contained stone plugs that, when removed, allowed water to rush in.In this hypothetical setup, a massive wooden float rested above the granite chamber.
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