His team’s original focus was not on the ramp leading down into the quarry, but on properly documenting the inscriptions found there. He said the alabaster quarry itself, as well as the inscriptions they were there to study, had been known to Egyptologists for a long time, having first been found by Howard Carter – the discoverer of Tutankhamun’s tomb. The find was made in late September, meaning that has not yet been possible. He told the Guardian that he and his colleagues, including his fellow director Dr Yannis Gourdon of the Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (IFAO), intended to publish their findings in a peer-reviewed journal in the near future. “The system we have discovered would allow more people to exert force at one time, so it means you would be able to exert more force and move the blocks more quickly,” said Dr Roland Enmarch, a senior lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool and the co-director of the project that made the discovery, the Hatnub Survey. They believe the find to be significant because they say it suggests the work could have been done more quickly, albeit still involving the heavy labour of a large number of people. The team believes those below the block would have used the posts to create a pulley system while those above it pulled simultaneously. They believe the inclusion of the steps and the postholes either side of a rampway suggests the builders were able to haul from both directions, rather than simply dragging a block behind them.
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