For many centuries the question of how in the Bronze Age people could create the Great Pyramid at Giza remained one of the greatest mysteries.

And finally, scientists managed to discover the ancient papyrus, which tells how the Egyptians transported two-ton blocks of limestone and granite over huge distances.

Archaeologists have long known that granite for construction was mined in Aswan, 800 kilometers from Giza, and limestone was taken from Tours. But to a common opinion on how transportation of storing units was carried out till now could not come.

The found papyrus says that thousands of skilled workers transported 170 thousand tons of limestone on wooden boats, connected by ropes, along the Nile, and then through a specially constructed canal system. The end point was the inland port, located in the immediate vicinity of the site of construction of the pyramids.

In total, over two decades, about 2.3 million. stone blocks.

A scroll of papyrus was discovered in the seaport of Wadi al-Jarf. The transportation technology was described by a certain Merer, the overseer in charge of a team of 40 workers. To date, this is the only story about building a pyramid first-hand.

An ancient document describes how a team of workers participated in the transformation of the landscape, opened dams to divert water from the Nile into artificial canals.

Archaeologist Mark Lehner, who digs in Egypt for over thirty years, said: "We have identified the location of the central canal, which, in our opinion, served as the main route for delivering the building blocks to the foot of the Giza Plateau". This is reported by the Daily Mail.