New Theory About How Pyramids Were Constructed

"Egypt's Great Pyramid construction rewritten as new evidence exposes how it was actually built" reports the Daily Mail.  

    The construction of Egypt’s Great Pyramid has long baffled archaeologists, with no surviving ancient texts explaining how its massive stone blocks were lifted and assembled so quickly. 

    Traditional theories rely on ramps and a slow, layer-by-layer build, but they struggle to explain how stones weighing up to 60 tons were raised hundreds of feet in just two decades. 

    Now, a new study has proposed that the pyramid was built using an internal system of counterweights and pulley-like mechanisms hidden inside its structure.

    In research published in Nature, Dr Simon Andreas Scheuring of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York calculated that builders could lift and place massive blocks at an astonishing pace, sometimes as quickly as one block per minute. 

    He argued that this would only have been possible with sliding counterweights, rather than brute-force hauling, generating the power needed to raise stones to the upper levels of the Pyramid of Khufu.

    The study also pointed to architectural features inside the pyramid that support this model, identifying the Grand Gallery and Ascending Passage as sloped ramps where counterweights may have been dropped to create a lifting force. 

    The Antechamber, long thought to be a security feature, is reinterpreted as a pulley-like mechanism that could help lift even the heaviest blocks. 

    If true, the study suggested the Great Pyramid was constructed from the inside out, starting at an internal core and using hidden pulley systems to raise stones as the structure grew.