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How subtraction, not addition, may have been the secret to Egypt’s pyramids

Every few years, someone comes up with a new "this is how the pyramids were built" theory.

Jason Weisberger
Feb 09, 2026
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Every few years, someone comes up with a new “this is how the pyramids were built” theory. In addition to aliens or long-forgotten super technologies, many theories rely on unfeasible ramps that’d never work. This theory works.

This theory treats the pyramids as an engineering problem and takes the constraints very ser…

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