my cousin studied egyptology, I think she liked it...
Yeah I want to study History or Ancient History at Uni after my a/as levels.

fun subject! started learning ancient egyptian (teach urself stylee book) really looking forward to being able to read hieroglyphics and hieratic. any1 here able to do that?

cool, nope. Wow, you must really like it to bother learning heiroglyphics.

yup, cool stuff! i know a few silly phrases e.g.

'rek en- ek t-hek-ef'
(u knew he was drunk)

and

'eemee en kend rem-chet'
(let not mankind be angry)

lol ok, I am sure that will come in useful soon!

definately! there's nothing like a few ancient egyptian phrases to see u through the day...

hieroglyphics and hieratic.
nope
don't do those ones
sorry
much humiliation

I bet you wasted your time learning those phrases, you could have easily watched yu gi oh and taken them in over time instead...

Oh dear holy father of all pyramidiots.... Where does the madness end? Someone needs to get a net.

yu gi oh? lol. very relevant i'm sure...

you trying to save on your car insurance ?
lol
only you other brits will get that one
"calm down dear"

Ok so what was the final verdict? On how they moved those stones?

Didn't they move the stone by something like using the river to carry the stones on then they used wood or something with rope and a few hundred thousand men to hoist them up???

SImple....... telepathyyyyy.. or other life beings, i stilll stand by that theory, that it is other beings that helped the ancient civilaztions do the things they do!

I think they built the pyramid step by step, piling sand and mud on all its four sides, making the structure virtually submerged in sand and then sliding the rocks over the slanting paths using wooden planks and rope pulled by the workers. After the construction of a step,they then would've raised the level of the sand all around the pyramid to allow the stones to be pulled over to the next step.
Thus, after finishing the costruction of all the steps, they would clear away all the mud and sand piled all around the pyramid, revealing the towering structure. Just my two cents.

Your theory has a fault. Sand and mud is not dense enough to support the heavier blocks unless it is extremely compressed, and then it would be more difficult to clear away afterwards.
Gravel and sand would be an alternative.
Forget about mud, it presents too many problems.

Other than that, your theory explains how the blocks could have been vertically transported. I've always thought that it was ramps.

Ramps did have a part in helping lift them from bottom to top.

Maybe they had push carts?

Let's do a bit of arithmetic here. The Sumerians were in power before about 2600 BC, or about 3300 years before that Arab roamed the "sacred" places. There wouldn't have been much more for that Arab to see than there is now, as mud brick doesn't really last that long, and most of what the Sumerians built things of was mud brick.

Oh i'd love to know you're source for that one.
Most of the ziggurats and temples on the earths surface were built of mud brick
Teotihuacan is built from mud brick
the ziggurat at ur was built from mud brick
they're both still standing
That makes the ziggurat of ur 5000 + years old
heres a picture

as you can see it hasn't really lasted that long.
Oh by the way you know that you can fire mud brick so that it last thousands and thousands of years....right ?

The difference between pyramids built from stone and ziggurats built from brick is the location of the quarry and the manpower available
Thats it