Ancient Pyramids: Constructed With A Kite?

Researchers are testing out a theory that ancient Egyptian monuments could have been constructed with the help of a kite to lift large objects.

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July 7, 2001, 6:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Mory Gharib and his team raised a 6,900-pound (3132.6 kg), 15-foot (3.0 m) obelisk into vertical position in the desert near Palmdale by using only a kite, a pulley system, and a support frame... The next step is to build a bigger obelisk to demonstrate that even the mammoth 300-ton monuments of ancient Egypt?not to mention the far less massive building blocks of Egypt's 90-odd pyramids?could have been raised with a fraction of the effort that modern researchers have assumed."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Researchers Lift Obelisk With Kite to Test Theory on Ancient Pyramids

Friday, July 6, 2001 in National Geographic

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