Herodotus reported absolutely correctly, however many people prefer anything but the truth. You see there is no mention of RAMP or RAMPS, so please ask yourself, why do the invented modern comedies of errors exist and are offered as ancient Egyptian history ! ?

Ezekiel writes of machines thus,"their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around." A Pyramid block with pulleys fitted is about one metre wide and one and a half metres high. When numerous pulleys were ascending the Pyramid during the cool of night by firelight, the scene would certainly be high and awesome. Ezekiel writes of what appears to be the lifting devices used to fit the pulley which he writes are straight with a calf shaped foot made of bronze. These devices are known as "clawlifts" and are fully explained in the book, RAISING STONE 1. I suspected the clawlifts were made of timber and their feet strengthened with bronze plates. There is no need to consider Ezekiel mentally sick and there is no need to entertain any ideas of UFO's and aliens. The building of the Pyramids was a dramatic event of ancient times using the latest technology involving machinery. This machinery was designed and manufactured by MAN, and having the strength of an OX, could soar like an EAGLE and leap like a LION. The four faces are the associated attributes of the machinery itself. The CHERUBS are the pulleys climbing as if alive and their WINGS are the pulley lobes which touch each other as they are tied together around a beryl coloured sandstone block to be part of the THRONE. The THRONE is the Pyramid. The NOISE and WHIRLWIND refer to much activity onsite at Giza. (This ancient bible documented report is dated c.590 BC)

... and TIME you should know how Giza Pyramids were built and explaining this to others ! "Raising Stone 1" specifically explains the ancient method of Giza Pyramid construction.

Captain Matthew Flinders (1774 - 1814), famous navigator and cartographer of Australia's coast. Flinders suggested the name 'Australia' which was adopted in 1824. His grandson became a leading excavator and curator of Egyptian artifacts known to everyone as "Petrie". He became Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853 - 1942).

Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards toured Egypt during 1873-74 with friends and saw Egyptian artifacts needed to be preserved. In London, Amelia and Reginald Stuart Poole founded the Egypt Exploration Fund, which is now known as the Egypt Exploration Society.

Petrie was paid 250 British Pounds per month from the Fund to excavate in Egypt. In 1895 Petrie was excavating at Deir El-Bahari and excavated wooden items that have become known as "Petrie rockers". Petrie suspected these items were used for the construction of the Pyramids and his assumption has been proven correct. Petrie had excavated wooden pinion-pulley lobe quadrants which are components of an ancient pulley hitherto unknown in the modern world. This pulley surrounds its load, which is a Pyramid block, and then as it is hoisted the pulley step-walks the Pyramid's stepped layers with a mechanical advantage of 2.8 (MA=2.8).

Petrie died in Jerusalem unknowing that "Petrie rockers" are components of an ancient pulley and the most important excavation he ever made.

The book "Raising Stone 1" is in the Egypt Exploration Society Library in London and explains the operation of the ancient Egyptian four-lobe pinion-pulley with relevant and specific background material.

A Pyramid progressively under construction already has four sides of steps upon which step-climbing pulleys can step-walk stones upward, similar to how three wheels of a step-trolley move over steps. Ancient Egyptian engineers were intelligent and innovative having built four Pyramids at least without using ramps, those of Pharaohs Sneferu (Red Pyramid), Khufu, Khafre & Menkaure.

Students of Ancient History are now discovering this no-nonsense ancient method of Pyramid construction by studying "Raising Stone 1"