A work in progress -pyramids.

[cladking]

It's all in the ramps, dude...just nobody else but me understands it..

Ya' might have something there.

Perhaps the ramp was some sort of primitive linear motor so all they had to do was set a stone on it and it would ride all the way to the top. Come to think of it this would be a handy way for the masons to get to work in the morning; just ride one of the stones. Since they needed another stone on top every 45 seconds or so if you missed the 7:00 AM stone there'd always be another along within less than a minute. There's no reason they couldn't pass the masons' lunches up using the same means and save them the grueling half hour climb down and hour climb back up.

The only hard part would be getting back down at the end of the day unless the motor could be reversed.

The orthodox view might not be quite so absurd but it's far more absurd that most Egyptologists never even question it.