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  "textContent": "\n\nEvery 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.\n\nThis theory treats the pyramids as an engineering problem and takes the constraints very seriously. — Read the rest \n\nThe post How subtraction, not addition, may have been the secret to Egypt's pyramids appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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