What book are you reading?

[ReluctantSamurai]

The Orion Mystery by Robert Bauval and Adrain Gilbert.

I'm a Pyramidiot from waaay back...I have about five or six good books on the subject dating from the early seventies. I'm not a subscriber to many of the crazy theories floating around about the Pyramid complex at Giza, and Bauval tends to wander a bit in presenting his theory, but it seems obvious to me that the meridian locations of the Giza Pyramids and those at Saqqara and Dashour are not simply random places to build pyramids. While I do not agree with all of Bauval's proposal, I think he's spot on that there was some kind of "master blueprint" for the locations of the seven major pyramids built during the Fourth Dynasty. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend it.

An even better read is Engineering the Pyramids by Richard Parry. An engineer by trade, he completely debunks (to me, anyway) the idea that the Pyramid builders dragged the approximately 2.3 million blocks of stone that went into Khufu's pyramid, weighing an average 2.5 tonnes each, by sled from the quarries along the Nile to the building site. If the builders were intelligent and skilled enough to raise a structure that, as an engineering feat, wouldn't be equaled until the 20th century, they were smart enough to figure out how to move those blocks quicker and more efficiently.

They did. They rolled them