# A ramp wound round the faces on the unfinished steps or on brick supports.

> Still possible: A ramp wound round the faces on the unfinished steps or on brick supports.

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# A ramp wound round the faces on the unfinished steps or on brick supports.

A ramp wound round the faces on the unfinished steps or on brick supports.

**Still possible** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Its tests haven't settled it: one piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Evidence of support structures or scars on the lower casing or core courses.

## What would rule it out

- Demonstration that the corners could not have been surveyed with the faces covered, or absence of any support traces.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[Wrap-around ramp traces exist at some Old and Middle Kingdom pyramids.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-pyramid/evidence/EVD0CSMNXEM3351/wrap-around-ramp-traces-exist-at-some-old-and-middle-kingdom)

Supported

FOR

[A spiral ramp hides the corners that surveyors needed to keep the faces true.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-pyramid/evidence/EVD0CSMNXPE6SMV/a-spiral-ramp-hides-the-corners-that-surveyors-needed-to)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[How were the blocks raised onto the pyramid?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/great-pyramid/questions/QST0CSMNV0G4ZBV/how-were-the-blocks-raised-onto-the-pyramid)

Most likelyShorter, steeper ramps were used with post-and-rope haulage of the kind excavated at Hatnub, combined with…

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