Justherealone
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I think you are right about not being a desert the amount of calories to move 2.3 million blocks averaging 2 ton needs a massive and stable surplus of food for decades
Nothing that a bit of hard work (unknown in today's life) and a taste of the whip to get the job done.
Everyone thinks of the building of the Pyramid's in today's terms, facts are, we don't know if that area was a desert 5000 odd years age to start with, there may have been dirt around (or imported) to build ramps, we only assume, the area may have had hardwood around or Egyptians traded, they could have imported logs & ropes to move stone blocks & heavy stone blocks HAVE been moved by manpower, I helped my dad drag a guys VW Kombi out of a river in the 70's by a pully system known as a Spanish Windlass nothing more than 2 ropes attached to the car & a tree, then a heavy stick between the ropes and twist, took a few hours but out it came full of water, so heavy shit can be moved easily, the Egyptians probably had better ideas. The Romans built a 114 meter ramp to get at some Hebrew shits at Masada, bigger ramps could easily be possible, don't write off what a couple of hundred people (may have only been 1 team), ropes, simple pully systems, hard work & the incentive of a big guy with a whip coul