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Chapter 175 Boulder
The Pyramid of Khufu is not located in the urban area of ​​Cairo. It took more than two hours for the MPV to arrive at the scenic spot where the pyramid is located.

Although Chen Quan and the others got up early, some local tourists had already gathered at the entrance of the scenic spot, waiting in line to enter.

"I never thought that the famous Dr. Chen Quan and Ms. Qu Yanqiu would be so young."

Just entering the scenic spot, a bearded man in his 30s greeted him.

"This is Dr. Ahmed, he was sent by the Egyptian Tourism Bureau as our tour guide and introduction." Walt introduced.

"A doctor to be our guide?"

Chen Quan was a little surprised.

"I volunteered on my own initiative. I am also very interested in you, a world-renowned doctor of electronics and theoretical physicist, who came here to do archaeology." The bearded middle-aged man was still very funny.

"We're not actually here for archaeology. We're just here for sightseeing, just to take a look." Chen Quan blushed a little when he was told.

"Really? But the application we received didn't say that."

"By the way, um, it's mainly archaeological travel by the way."

"Where's your equipment?"

Dr. Amode looked behind several people. "You came to archaeology with empty hands?"

"Equipment is still needed for archeology? What kind of equipment do you need?"

Qu Yanqiu asked curiously.

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Dr. Amode looked at each other speechlessly.Among the group of people, only Qu Yanqiu had a camera on his chest. "I have to believe now that you are here for tourism. This is really troublesome."

"What's the trouble?"

"It's okay, I'll find you some magnifying glasses to hold in your hands, even if you're just pretending." The bearded Dr. Amode was very accommodating. "However, it's not easy to write a report back."

In the scenic area, there are many children running around.Seeing foreign tourists coming, the children gathered around them one after another.But they didn't ask for money, they just ran over to shake hands and say hello to everyone.

"What are they doing?"

"I guess your skin color is special." Dr. Ahmed explained, "We have a lot of white tourists here, but yellow-skinned Chinese are very rare."

After getting acquainted with each other, Dr. Ahmed, like these local children, became more and more talkative.

Maybe it was because of the mentality of showing off, after all, Chen Quan and others came from another 5000-year-old country, or maybe it was because of the beautiful Qu Yanqiu, Dr. Amod’s introduction has been eloquent.

Regarding the Great Pyramid, Chen Quan and Qu Yanqiu had done a lot of research before leaving, but after all, they were not majors in archaeology, let alone Egyptian archaeology, so Chen Quan didn't know much about the information Amoud introduced.

Most of the content introduced by Dr. Al-Moud came from the official promotional materials of Egypt, but some of them belonged to his own experience.

"According to my personal analysis, the ancient Egyptians used buoyancy, and only buoyancy can solve the problem of lifting stones once and for all."

During the construction of the Egyptian pyramids, there are many unsolved mysteries, the biggest and most difficult of which is how to raise the building materials weighing 684 million tons to a height of more than 100 meters without modern lifting equipment. .

As for the cutting of boulders and transshipment on flat ground, it was not too difficult for ancient humans. After all, not far from the pyramids is the mother river of Egypt, the Nile River.

The idea of ​​the buoyancy method is to enclose a huge closed dam around the pyramid.Then tie the stones to the airbags and send them to the bottom of the dam, relying on the buoyancy generated by the airbags, let the stones float up to the pyramid by themselves.

"You haven't studied mechanics, have you?" Chen Quan was embarrassed to belittle the other party, whether he failed high school physics.

"Of course. My specialty has always been archeology and culture."

"With your method, although stones can easily float up, building such a huge suspended dam that can withstand dozens of atmospheres is impossible even with the current level of human technology!"

The Three Gorges Dam under construction in China adopts a concrete gravity structure, and the crest elevation is only 185 meters.

"Oh? Really? Is it really not feasible?"

Dr. Ahmad looked disappointed.If Chen Quan is willing to endorse him, he will be famous all over the world.

Under the scorching sun, Chen Quan and others finally approached the symbol of ancient Egyptian culture, the Giza Pyramids.

The Giza pyramid complex is composed of two large pyramids (Khufu Pyramid, Khafre Pyramid), a medium-sized pyramid (Mengkaurea Pyramid), and the Sphinx.

From a distance, due to the terrain, the Khafre Pyramid is the commanding height and visual center of the three pyramids. The appearance of the Khafre Pyramid is also more beautiful, because at its top, a part of the polished limestone shell remains.

The closer one gets to the pyramid, the more human beings feel their own insignificance.

"Is this really built by humans in ancient society?"

Even though they were used to seeing high-rise buildings in Chicago, Walt and others still felt shocked from the bottom of their hearts when they came under the pyramid.A solid pyramid with a side length of 230 meters and a height of 144 meters is too huge.

Due to the effect of time, the smooth surface used for decoration at the bottom of the pyramid has long since fallen off, revealing pieces of white boulders used as supporting materials.

Each boulder is almost as tall as an adult.

"Why do I feel that this pyramid was not built by humans at all?"

Qu Yanqiu suddenly spoke up.

"That's right! Many people tried to prove that the Great Pyramid was built by aliens at all." Dr. Amode, who had just been hit hard, became active again after hearing the words. "Because we have an old saying in Egypt that humans are afraid of time, but time is afraid of the pyramids."

"Why do you say that?"

Chen Quan didn't want to deal with the bearded guide, so he simply changed back to Chinese.

"Look at the volume and weight of these stones. How do I feel, they are not building materials that humans should use at all."

Qu Yanqiu walked to the side of the stones. Qu Yanqiu, who was 1.7 meters tall, was only less than a head taller than these huge stones. "Is there any difference between big stones and small stones for load-bearing purposes? Using these two-ton stones as basic building materials is asking for trouble?"

"That's right! Now that you've said that, I have a similar feeling. No wonder I feel uncomfortable."

Wang Qing, who traveled all over the country, also expressed his approval.

Generally speaking, regardless of the shape and result of human buildings, the shape and volume of building materials must follow the basic principles of convenience and practicality.

Just like building a house with bricks, there is no advantage in using oversized bricks, whether it is resistance to pressure or flexibility.Even if individual locations call for monolithic megaliths, it doesn't have to be for every building block.

The basic building blocks of the Great Pyramid, each stone weighs at least two tons.This completely violates the basic common sense in architecture, economics and even overall planning.Among other things, it will be more economical to use a small circle of stones of about 500 kilograms.

"Unless." Qu Yanqiu said.

"Unless what?"

"Unless they think it's more economical and faster to use this two-ton stone."

"How is this possible?" Wang Qing laughed.

"What if they have some kind of special machine or tool in their hands? This kind of tool can easily lift a two-ton stone. Then, wouldn't it be a natural choice for them to choose this size?"

Qu Yanqiu asked back.

"What are they talking about?"

Walter asked James.

"Oh, they think that the people who built the Great Pyramid must have a special tool in their hands. It can easily move and even lift a two-ton boulder."

"alien?"

"I don't know."

James Huang, shrugged.

After a day of contact, he also admired the active thinking of Chen Quan and the two of them.

Modern scholars have been studying the Great Pyramid for hundreds of years, and relevant scholars do not say that there are millions of them, and there must be more than tens of thousands.

But most people are concerned about how to transport and install the boulder, and few people question why the ancient Egyptians used this two-ton boulder as a basic building material.

(End of this chapter)