{"id":837,"date":"2007-04-02T21:36:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/04\/02\/let-us-build-a-city-and-a-tower-whose-top-may-reach-unto-heaven\/"},"modified":"2007-04-04T13:53:26","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T12:53:26","slug":"let-us-build-a-city-and-a-tower-whose-top-may-reach-unto-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/04\/let-us-build-a-city-and-a-tower-whose-top-may-reach-unto-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Let us build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great pyramid of Giza by Cheops (Khufu, \u00ce\u00a7\u00ce\u00ad\u00cf\u2030\u00cf\u02c6) is a true mystery. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/wissenschaft\/mensch\/0,1518,475196,00.html\">SPIEGEL online<\/a> now reports another attempt to explain how the pyramid has been constructed. A French architect believes<!--more--> that the pyramids have been build in two steps &#8211; a low level ramp until 40 m followed by internal loop roads (basically the same way skyscraper are being constructed nowadays, <a href=\"http:\/\/khufu.3ds.com\/introduction\/\"> Dassault Systemes has some animations<\/a>). Truly, a promising hypothesis &#8211; certainly better than a long distance ramp until the top but no so much advantage over a circular outside ramp. Look at my pictures taken about 15 years ago &#8211; blocks at 2.5 tons are manageable by an inside ramp. As always, a hypothesis can be proven, where in my opinion, filling in the final cornerstones will be a critical point. Maybe some of the tourists entering the pyramid (this was prohibited when I was in Giza) can answer the question if there is any evidence of a gap at the cornerstones &#8211; indicated by the red circles below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/img000827.jpg\" title='' data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img src='https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/img000827.thumbnail.jpg' alt='img000827.jpg' \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/img000825.jpg\" title='' data-rel=\"key-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img src='https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/img000825.thumbnail.jpg' alt='img000825.jpg' \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/pyramid3.png\" title='' data-rel=\"key-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img src='https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/pyramid3.thumbnail.png' alt='pyramid3.png' \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 29.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great pyramid of Giza by Cheops (Khufu, \u00ce\u00a7\u00ce\u00ad\u00cf\u2030\u00cf\u02c6) is a true mystery. SPIEGEL online now reports another attempt to explain how the pyramid has been constructed. A French architect believes &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 29.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[899,896,895,893,898,894,900,897],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-cheops","tag-cornerstones","tag-dassault_systemes","tag-great_pyramid_of_giza","tag-khufu","tag-ramp","tag-skyscraper","tag-true_mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}