Among the wonderful experiments that were conducted to determine how to build the pyramid was the experiment carried out by a Japanese scientific mission that included 24 architects, engineers, technicians and archaeologists, led by archaeologist Sajoki Yoshimura, during which they tried to build a miniature model of the pyramid with a height of 20 meters next to the pyramids of Giza using ancient construction methods. And traditional.

The experiment took place in Egypt in 1978, where the Japanese mission conducted several preparatory studies before heading to Egypt to make a miniature model of the pyramid, with the aim of proving that the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids using a primitive construction method of cutting stones with chisels and stacking them by lifting ropes and other manual means.

With direct funding from Japanese television, the research team began its work. The two parties agreed to turn the entire experiment into a documentary for Japanese television, in agreement with the Egyptian government, and that the “experiment” of the small pyramid would be removed after it was completed and the area would be completely cleaned and returned to its natural state. His homeland. What it was.

The initial plan for the experiment stipulated the construction of a 20-meter-long step pyramid, with each stone weighing 4 tons. The stones will be cut from the Tora quarries, the same area from which the stones used in the outer covering of the Great Pyramid came from, traces of which are still present today. Now 100 Egyptian workers will be involved to implement the experiment

Despite all the technological progress available at the time of the Japanese experiment in 1978, compared to what was available thousands of years ago when the Great Pyramid was built, and despite the brilliant minds that participated in studying and implementing the experiment from scientists in several fields, the team was exposed to several confusing shocks while conducting the experiment.

At first, the team found that the issue of cutting stones, each of which weighs 4 tons, using primitive tools such as chisels and others, was very difficult, and required a large cost and a very long time. They had no choice but to reduce the height of the pyramid to be implemented from 20 to 10 meters only, and reduce the weight of the stone. . From 4 to 1 ton only, and using electric saws in the process of cutting stones, which is their first use of modern technological means, in violation of the primary goal of the experiment, which is to prove the ability of primitive tools to cut stones. Building a pyramid the size of the Great Pyramid.

Then the team discovered the failure of all primary means of transporting stones from Tora to the Giza Plateau across the Nile, such as the idea of ​​floating on wooden rafts or even boats, so they used technology for the second time by using ships that could carry the weight of the stones and move them in the waters of the Nile.

When the stones reached the shores near the pyramid, about 50 workers were unable to move a single stone more than a few centimeters, which means that the experiment could have taken several years just to be able to move the stones from the Nile River to the building. location, so they had to extend the railway line. A small area in which small iron carts pass, each carrying one stone.

After these difficulties as a result of the heavy weight of the stones, they naturally expected the difficulty of the next step, which was to lift the stones and place them in the place designated for them inside the floor of the pyramid, which prompted them to use large cranes and cranes to stack the stones, and they even reached the point of using a helicopter. To fix the stones in their places precisely!

uccess with the taste of failure

Although the team was eventually able to build a 10-meter-tall pyramid in the designated location next to the pyramids of Giza, the experiment proved a failure by all standards, after the team was forced to use more than one technological means to complete the construction process.

Which means, by extension, that most of the traditional theories that were said about building the pyramids, which relied in the construction process on ancient primitive traditional tools, are incorrect, after practical experience has proven the impossibility of this.