Were Egypt's pyramids built using a hydraulic lift system ?

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14 minutes ago, cladking said:

 

"Another complication involves the proposed lake, says Egyptologist Kamil Kuraszkiewicz: It’s not mentioned in any ancient Egyptian writings and may never have existed.

Also, Djoser’s pyramid stones — which weighed on average about 300 kilograms each — were considerably smaller and easier for workers to transport than those used for later pyramids, says Kuraszkiewicz, of the University of Warsaw. 'To build the hydraulic device [proposed in the new model], much more effort would be needed than to move the stone blocks using just manpower.'"

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/hydraulic-lift-egypts-first-pyramid

 

Here's another Egyptologist who believes small stones are easier to build with and easier to lift than large stones.  It's the same argument that is used to claim G1 was easier to build because the small stones at the top of the pyramids were easier to drag up ramps.  There is no evidence these stones are smaller except that one dimension is shorter but the simple fact is that when you drag one tiny stone to the top you are only making a tiny bit of pyramid.  If stones are a tenth the size then you have to drag ten stones as well as the sled and the crew that dragged them.  You can not solve the mystery by proposing pyramids used tiny stones because the smaller the stone the more work per square foot was required to quarry it and the more work per pound to haul it up.  These are semantical games just like proposing he pyramid isn't even quarried stone but rather just a shaped mountain.  

I have some doubt that the catchment area was of sufficient size to provide water for so inefficient means of lifting the stones myself but it was wetter in those days and it did rain in the spring.  But that Egyptology wants to ignore the actual physical evidence that is in plain sight today because there is no written record is risible.  There is also no attestation of the word "ramp" or words for "belief" and not even for "thought" yet they never noticed these.  Indeed the only writing that survives from the era is "Nefermaat is he who makes his gods in words that can not be erased".  From this they have constructed a 3000 year civilization that never changed.  

The simple fact is that if they had water at altitude then there exist highly efficient methods to build pyramids and this study shows they quite likely had water at altitude.  The fact is no Egyptologist has any evidence whatsoever that they did not have water at altitude or that little stones make bigger pyramids than big stones if you drag them up ramps.  Indeed, Egyptologists whether they are linguists or archaeologists aren't even privy to the facts any longer and have never seen the infrared data.  Their opinions are no better than anyone's and certainly no better than he authors of this study.