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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova: [QB] ------------------------------------- [i] "Much earlier forerunners are shown in tomb paintings of the late Old Kingdom and the 11th Dynasty showing siege towers with wheels; depictions of movable siege towers exist from the 6th Dynasty onwards.) This indicates that the wheel was used in the transport if heavy loads more frequently than assumed.. The use of wheeled equipment in building is not yet attested to but may have been fairly common. The soft surface of the desert sand and the mid of the cultivation may have been a serious obstacle for heavy carriages but not so much for sledges."[/i] --The encyclopaedia of ancient Egyptian architecture By Dieter Arnold. 2002. p 195 -------------------------- [i] "In all probability wheels would have been of little practical use, for the building blocks used were far too large and too heavy to be carried on a wooden-wheeled cart. The relative scarcity of wood in ancient Egypt would have made the building of such carts difficult and overcoming the practical and technical difficulties of building carts to carry and move great weights would have probably proved impossible. Wheels would have been, in any event, a far from practical method of transport on either agricultural land or the desert where they would have become quickly bogged down in either mud or sand."[/i] --R. Partridge. (1996) Transport in ancient Egypt. p76 [/QB][/QUOTE]
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