The Ancient Egyptian Temple

Beginning with the structure of the pyramid, the creation of waterways allowed transport of sandstone to the pyramid from far away. With the creation of a natural stream to work this, the first time the humans who built the temple needed: was a quarry. Not to far down from the current position of the temple, a horseshoe shaped sandstone quarry stands as an artifact of a time long ago. The scientists who discovered this structure came to an agreed idea that humans had to either push the block through wet sand all the way back to the temple right, or get to use the nile as a resource (Narjas). This is also evidence that sandstone could be found in the water, leading to the idea that the Egyptians tried to use the water as a form of transport, but may have lost some of the sandstone blocks in the process. Another way of …show more content…
From the base of the temple, it may seem like there was no way for water to enter the temple, but if you venture deeper into the temples under roots, you will find a network of interconnected paths, seemingly random. However these are not random, these are aqueducts and water tables. These were in the temple because one of the ways the Egyptians got the bricks inside the temple was by transporting them via a transport across the water down into the temple and placed them as need be.
With a large sum of evidence pointing towards the use of hydraulics and human labor over ramps, the Great Pyramids would created by hard work and sacrifice. With the idea of aliens thrown out the window, the work of human slaves and workers that created the pyramids can be seen as truth throughout history, with many human creations showing the creativity that humanity enquired when developing such a creation. With that, humanity is a amazing species that can accomplish many achievements with hard work and strong leadership, anything can be