But how were these builders able to lift these enormous blocks 140 meters up？ ForAll kinds of hypotheses have seen the light over the years. Some have even proposed that Cheops was the work of extraterrestrial beings！
Thus， it is that throughout the world there have been people fascinated by this civiliza-tion， who without any archeological training， have tried to elucidate the secrets. For JeanLouis Lespagnol， building engineer， Cheops is a client！
When I got down to studying the construction of the pyramid， I imagined it hadnt yetbeen constructed and that Cheops had just given me the job of building it. I have worked inbuilding and I said to myself， there is another technique in building which consists of or-ganizing men and organizing machines.
Convinced of finding the solution， Jean Louis Lespagnol worked in secret in his base-ment for eight years. There he used all the material which was available during the time ofthe Pharaohs wood for the raising implements and hemp for the ropes. Everything was ex-amined minutely the weight， the friction， the length of cables.
His theory ： the Egyptians used the sides of the pyramid to raise the stone blocks. Theworkers who were in charge of pulling the blocks were at the opposite end of the buildingsite， where they formed enormous human gears to raise the blocks. According to his calcu-lations， a team of 670 workers could in this way raise a block of 3 tons. And several teamsworked side by side. Like this， they were able to achieve the rate of a block every three mi-nutes， rate necessary to finish the building in 30 years.
But for Jeannot Perello， mechanic living in a small village in the Alsatian region inFrance， this theory doesnt hold. His idea is that the Egyptians used an ingenious woodenmachine. To prove his theory， Jeannot Perello worked day and night to create this machine.He admits himself that his approach stems more from dream than from science.
Two years ago I had a dream， and in my dream I was flying right above the Valley ofthe Kings， and I saw a half-buih pyramid without its tip. This dream so struck me that I gotun and went straight to my desk. took a oiece of oaoer and drew a olan.
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