2022/01/03 by C. Hirlimann, Charles Hirlimann, Hirlimann, Charles
Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · Physics and Astronomy · #Ancient Egypt and Archaeology #Classical Physics (physics.class-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Neural dynamics and brain function #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph) #physics.class-ph #physics.pop-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2201.00525
in English, 10 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
openalex publication_date 2022/01/03 · arxiv created 2022/02/08 · arxiv updated 2022/02/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The calculation of the energy required to raise a constituent block of the Khufu pyramid and the knowledge of the mechanical energy that a worker in charge of the lifting of the blocks can produce per working day allows an estimate of the minimum number of workers. necessary for the establishment of a base of the pyramid. It emerges that this number is limited to a maximum of less than 2,000 workers over a working season, ie less than 200 present each day simultaneously on the site. In addition, the calculation of the flow of blocks leads to the ineluctable conclusion that the construction could only be done in a massively parallel working mode, undermining the hypothesis very often put forward of the use of ramps to convey the blocks to their final destination.