Seriously though! With this much money at stake they should have a small army of excavators, bulldozers, tugboats, and lord knows what else hauling this thing out of there.
But all I see digging the damn thing out is ONE LITTLE EXCAVATOR? That's all I've seen pictures of. Where's all the rest of the equipment? Am I missing something???
Shit, there's more than that at the local construction site on my way to work! And I guarantee you my local construction site has a lot less money at stake than the jammed up Suez canal does.
They're slow-walking this on purpose! CHANGE MY MIND!
It IS hard to find good help these days. Egyptians could get this thing out (driving there is the most intense thing you can imagine) in no time if they wanted. They are truly capable and I agree there is a slow walking. Patriots in control?
The Egyptians built the freaking Great Pyramids in less time than this is gonna take, kek!
Egyptians didn't build the pyramids, they take the credit for the very ancient monolithic structures that were built by earlier civilisations.
I would wager Napoleon and his army built the largest pyramids and the Sphinx. The engineering of the air shafts that go up on an angle, cutting through hundreds of stones with absolute precision is too complicated for anything but more modern technologies. The Egyptians only built the older step pyramids and mastabas.
Why were the massive pyramids never even really referenced at all through history? People cite Herodotus as the lone example but even he was going off what people said to him. It’s not like the Greeks couldn’t take a day to go see them for themselves. Not to mention ancient Greek art, sculpture and architecture all had its roots in Egyptian methods and styles, yet no trace of pyramid awe or worship or anything.
TIL I learned the word "mastaba". And it wasn't what I thought it might mean.