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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

New discovery throws light on mystery of pyramids' construction

Egyptologists stumble across ramp that helps explain how huge blocks of stones were hauled into place

The mystery of how, exactly, the pyramids were built may have come a step closer to being unravelled after a team of archaeologists made a chance discovery in an ancient Egyptian quarry.

Scientists researching ancient inscriptions happened upon a ramp with stairways and a series of what they believe to be postholes, which suggest that the job of hauling into place the huge blocks of stone used to build the monuments may have been completed more quickly than previously thought.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2RDgmhg

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