Japanese-Egyptian team hunting for new tomb at Giza

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Levitation by wind it is then. 20,000 people blowing down tunnels on all four sides in a mass chant, converging in the centre just under each block raised slightly into a central lifting shaft.

That would be a great recreation to try on an episode for The Discovery Channel.

On a serious note, perhaps there was no department for rope making because ropes would have been used for shipping and on the Nile and would be imported instead of made on site. Also, rope gets reused which could explain why little or none was found on site.

Thing is, they'd have to have special ropes made and made constantly because stone very heavy and is much harder on fiber than wood is.  Rope making was a specialized trade, and they do find traces of this industry on Giza...but mainly associated with the production of string, not rope. https://link.springer.com/referenceworke...ied%20rope.

And here's a nice paper that includes some images of people making rope in ancient Egypt: https://www.uibk.ac.at/archaeologien/for...en.html.en