Graham Hancock

Yeah, ramps won't do it. Ramps won't do it, nor will wet sand. It's true that the ancient Egyptians did haul big objects on sleds on wet sand. There are even reliefs that show the process where an individual is standing on the front of the sledge pouring water down to lubricate the sand underneath.

And that's a perfectly respectable way to move a 200-ton block of stone across sand, flat sand, if you have enough people to pull it. But that is not going to help you get results.

And that's a perfectly respectable way to move a 200-ton block of stone across sand, flat sand, if you have enough people to pull it. But that is not going to help you get results.

And that's a perfectly respectable way to move a 200-ton block of stone across sand, flat sand, if you have enough people to pull it. But that is not going to help you get results.

dozens of 70 ton granite blocks, 300 feet in the air to form the roof of the King's chamber and the floor of the chamber above it and the roof of that chamber and the floor of the chamber above that and so on and so forth. Wet sand never got those objects up there. Somehow they were lifted up there. Now, yeah, ramps are proposed as the solution, but where are the remains of those ramps?

dozens of 70 ton granite blocks, 300 feet in the air to form the roof of the King's chamber and the floor of the chamber above it and the roof of that chamber and the floor of the chamber above that and so on and so forth. Wet sand never got those objects up there. Somehow they were lifted up there. Now, yeah, ramps are proposed as the solution, but where are the remains of those ramps?

dozens of 70 ton granite blocks, 300 feet in the air to form the roof of the King's chamber and the floor of the chamber above it and the roof of that chamber and the floor of the chamber above that and so on and so forth. Wet sand never got those objects up there. Somehow they were lifted up there. Now, yeah, ramps are proposed as the solution, but where are the remains of those ramps?

If you're going to carry blocks weighing up to two or three tons right to the top of the Great Pyramid to complete your work, you're going to need a ramp that's going to extend out into the desert for more than a mile at a 10-degree slope. And it's calculated that a 10-degree slope is about the maximum slope that human labor can haul objects up a ramp.

If you're going to carry blocks weighing up to two or three tons right to the top of the Great Pyramid to complete your work, you're going to need a ramp that's going to extend out into the desert for more than a mile at a 10-degree slope. And it's calculated that a 10-degree slope is about the maximum slope that human labor can haul objects up a ramp.

If you're going to carry blocks weighing up to two or three tons right to the top of the Great Pyramid to complete your work, you're going to need a ramp that's going to extend out into the desert for more than a mile at a 10-degree slope. And it's calculated that a 10-degree slope is about the maximum slope that human labor can haul objects up a ramp.

And that ramp can't just be compacted sand since heavy objects are being hauled up. It's going to have to be made of very solid material, almost as solid as the pyramid itself. Where is it? We don't see any trace of those so-called ramps that are supposed to have been involved in the construction of the pyramid. I think we don't know. I think we have no idea it's built.

And that ramp can't just be compacted sand since heavy objects are being hauled up. It's going to have to be made of very solid material, almost as solid as the pyramid itself. Where is it? We don't see any trace of those so-called ramps that are supposed to have been involved in the construction of the pyramid. I think we don't know. I think we have no idea it's built.

And that ramp can't just be compacted sand since heavy objects are being hauled up. It's going to have to be made of very solid material, almost as solid as the pyramid itself. Where is it? We don't see any trace of those so-called ramps that are supposed to have been involved in the construction of the pyramid. I think we don't know. I think we have no idea it's built.

That's why there's so many different theories. We haven't got the answer yet. But the how of it is one of the big mysteries from our past.

That's why there's so many different theories. We haven't got the answer yet. But the how of it is one of the big mysteries from our past.

That's why there's so many different theories. We haven't got the answer yet. But the how of it is one of the big mysteries from our past.

But what would last is massive megalithic structures like the Great Pyramid. That would last. And it could be used to send a message to the future. I think Gobekli Tepe serves a similar function. I mean, there it was. It was buried 10,400 years ago. And then for the next 10,000 years, nobody touched it. Nobody knew it was there.

But what would last is massive megalithic structures like the Great Pyramid. That would last. And it could be used to send a message to the future. I think Gobekli Tepe serves a similar function. I mean, there it was. It was buried 10,400 years ago. And then for the next 10,000 years, nobody touched it. Nobody knew it was there.

But what would last is massive megalithic structures like the Great Pyramid. That would last. And it could be used to send a message to the future. I think Gobekli Tepe serves a similar function. I mean, there it was. It was buried 10,400 years ago. And then for the next 10,000 years, nobody touched it. Nobody knew it was there.

It took the genius of Klaus Schmidt, the original excavator, to realize what he'd found and what it was. But the great thing about the sealing of Gobekli Tepe, the deliberate burial of Gobekli Tepe,