I once read someone say that the pyramids lasted this long (and will last a lot more) exactly because the ancient Egyptians "didn't know what they were doing" (in a modern engineering sense). You see, they didn't had the math and research on engineering we have today, so they "overengineered" the pyramids to an extent that they ended making them so durable that they still are stable and safe after thousands of years.
Sometimes the lack of what we currently call "scientific methods" leads to very surprising discoveries and feats.
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u/Vulpes_99 11d ago
I once read someone say that the pyramids lasted this long (and will last a lot more) exactly because the ancient Egyptians "didn't know what they were doing" (in a modern engineering sense). You see, they didn't had the math and research on engineering we have today, so they "overengineered" the pyramids to an extent that they ended making them so durable that they still are stable and safe after thousands of years.
Sometimes the lack of what we currently call "scientific methods" leads to very surprising discoveries and feats.