Few thousand? It would take more than that, to raise a 20-70 ton brick of granite perfectly cut. Let's put this into perspective, nothing but a loin cloth, no shoes, and the power of about 100 men to push/pull a 20-70 ton brick with nothing but a rope and some mud up a ramp a cleverly built ramp. Wont happen.
Problem with this is you have incorrectly assumed i meant party ballons. I meant hot-air balloons
About all them facts, well the thing is us humans are inherently good at finding patterns in everything. We love patterns, even if they don't exist. I'm sure if i typed the height of myself in, i could find some amazingly spooky facts that seem to be related.
And if all that stuff about alignment and placement is correct, well maybe they just had a clever guy that has never been discovered with an IQ of about 260. Call me crazy, but it's less crazy than having help from extra terrestrials.
The ramps are a theory, alien life is a theory, everything in this thread is based off of someones theory, crazy or not.
If I was Pharaoh with thousands upon thousands of slaves I could build a pyramid.
Yap. Maybe they have got it all wrong, and when the pyramids were made the desert was actually above the top of the pyramid and they actually just dug a hole and lowered bricks. You never know
Verner posited that the labour was organized into a hierarchy, consisting of two gangs of 100,000 men, divided into five zaa or phyle of 20,000 men each, which may have been further divided according to the skills of the workers.[25]
200,000 men. You could do anything with 200,000 men.