This is simple economics. We do not deliberately waste resources.
In the case of the Tower of Babel described in the Bible, the best method was determined to be bricks and slime, which seems like a reasonable choice of materials for relatively primitive men.
However in Egypt, when faced with the task of constructing a pyramid, the engineers chose to use multi-ton rocks.
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The size of these rocks must have been considered ideal, or they would have chosen a different dimension. After all, they were putting stones on top of each other to produce a triangular shaped building. Any size rock would do.
This means that it is not enough for us to figure out how the rocks could have been cut, moved and put into place. We must also answer the economic question. We must find out why this particular technique was considered superior to all the other options available.
As long as there are obvious alternatives to the methods suggested by historians, we cannot say that we have solved the puzzle. The obvious alternative in the case of the pyramids would have been to use smaller rocks, or bricks and slime as suggested in the Bible.
The question that has to be answered is why they chose big rocks rather than smaller ones.
It must have been the quickest and easiest option. But how could that have been?
Lower gravity on earth at the time the piramids were built. The earth was farther away from the sun at the time of construction, as is why dinasaurs existed, they died out because earth moved closer to the sun and gravity increased and they couldnt support there own weight. With less gravity the stones were lighter and easier to move. References www.Thunderbolts.info
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