Today’s large cranes are almost the length of a football field. The base of the Great Pyramid in Egypt could accommodate ten such cranes.

What we find in the Great Pyramid defies all expectations. The beams weighing 70 tons are located 120 feet above ground level. The best Ancient Egyptian ramps would collapse under much smaller weights. Ancient Egyptian ramps were not very strong because they were made of roughly shaped rocks glued together with clay.

Another easy way to lift blocks is to use wooden crowbars. But the wooden levers are too weak to lift 70-ton beams like those found inside the Great Pyramid. Stacked planks of wood are too unstable to support such huge building units. Modern tests with mere 1/2 ton blocks barely managed to lift stones a few feet when stacked boards were used to lift them bit by bit. The 70-ton beams inside the Great Pyramid measure an impressive 27 feet long.

They produce the roof of the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid. These large beams span the length of the ceiling and jut out above the thick side walls of the King’s Chamber.

The walls of this mysterious granite room are made of blocks weighing up to 50 tons each. They adjust in ways no crane can. Close inspection of the walls and floor shows that the blocks fit together with fine joints, some barely detectable to the naked eye. All of the bulges (small bumps) on these blocks fit exactly with the corresponding anti-bulges on the blocks that touch on all sides. It takes a different kind of technology than brute force to do such sensitive and careful work.

Engineers acknowledge that placing these stones is as difficult a problem as lifting them. Also, we never see granite carved like that precisely in today’s structures.

We found a very surprising situation further down the Great Pyramid. Three blocks of granite, together 15 feet long, were used as plugs for the 129-foot long Ascending Passage. These blocks cover its lower end. Most engineers who have studied the problem suggest that these blocks somehow slipped down the 129-foot long slope of the Ascending Passage.

But these plug blocks are less than 1/2 inch narrower than the Up Passage itself. The plug blocks fit very closely with the ceiling of the Ascending Passage. In some places, there is only a 1/10-inch clearance. In general, the gap between the top of the plug blocks and the hallway ceiling is only 1-1/3 inches.

To prevent the blocks from slipping out of place, the workers gave them a wedge shape. This produces a custom and exact fit between the socket blocks and the area of ​​the Up Passage where they rest. With these factors in mind, no engineer has explained how these blocks could have slid down the 129-foot Ascending Passage without becoming hopelessly stuck.

No engineer has explained how these blocks could be placed in such a restricted place, given the great weight of granite blocks of this size. There simply wasn’t enough space for the number of men required to fit these heavy plug blocks into such a confined area.

All the work described above is all the more amazing because it takes 25 hours of labor to cut one inch in the Aswan granite with a copper sand arc drill. Copper was the strongest metal the Egyptians of the Pyramid Age had in their possession, and copper is a very soft metal. Grit quickly becomes dull against granite and must be constantly refreshed to provide sharp cutting points.

There is no direct evidence showing any more advanced tooling method for ancient Egypt. In fact, even simple archery exercise is unknown to the Age of Pyramids, when all the great pyramids of Egypt arose. Modern masons cannot reproduce the corresponding tight fits between the granite blocks of the Great Pyramid with the best modern tools.

Some have imagined that these seemingly impossible feats should be attributed to ancient astronauts or the ancient high technology of Atlantis or some other lost civilization for which we have no information. But modern science has shown us the way.