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Some archaeological remains and hieroglyphic inscriptions discovered in an alabaster quarry near the Nile Valley have allowed a team of archaeologists to discover how the ancient Egyptians carried large blocks of rock at the time of construction of the pyramids.
After studying about a hundred inscriptions and discovering remnants of wooden instruments, the experts deduced that the ancient Egyptians used a steeply inclined central ramp to extract blocks of wood. alabaster of the Hatnub quarry.
The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced the discovery made by a joint mission of the French Institute of Oriental Archeology (IFAO), . Headquartered in Cairo and the British University of Liverpool, on the archaeological site of Tel al Amarna, located in the province of Minia (center).
The General Representative of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mustafa Waziri, said in a statement that c was the "first time that the block transfer system was discovered in the quarry and how it was possible to lift these blocks of several tons, which completely changes the agreement on the construction of the pyramids "of Giza.
The director of IFAO, Laurent Bavay, explained that to remove the rocks of the quarry, which were about ten meters deep they were dragged along the ramp and used wood and plant-based ropes to support and badist this process.
"This is the archaeological evidence that they were able to move large stones by a slope Bavay added.
The Egyptologist noted that, in the case of pyramids, the experts always ask how steep the ramps would have been: to implore for raising the enormous stones of which they are composed.
In the pyramids, limestone was used, a material a little lighter than alabaster, but "very likely" same method to build the blocks with which the most famous monuments of Egypt were built.
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