How did ancient builders lift 2-ton stones 500 feet high without giant cranes[cite: 1]?
Forget the textbooks: building a single straight ramp would take more volume than the entire monument[cite: 1]. Instead, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin proposed that the pyramid was built from the inside out[cite: 1]. Workers navigated a hollow, 7-degree internal spiral ramp—a hidden structural elevator that radar scans later detected winding through the stone[cite: 1].
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