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Does this explain why they built them where they did?
It probably played a good part into the decision.
There are so many theories on how the Pyramids were built. With videos on youtube. And the theories compete with one another with fundamentally different approach.

I wonder how much the scientists are confident on their seperate explanations.

Only if we could go back in time and actually see how it was done, and thus solve the puzzle for sure.

If I had a working time machine, figuring out the pyramids is pretty low on the list of priorities.
You’d have plenty of time to work through the list though.
Since we're on the topic, which is one I have put some thought on, allow me to put forth my theory on how time travel as a business would work:

* How would it feel: You and your fellow audience will be comfortably placed in a force field bubble that will (1) allow you to watch the event of your choice freely but (2) will make you invisible to all lifeforms you are observing; unfortunately (3) you will not be able to interact (talk with observed people, give/take anything to the observed locales etc.) and (4) cell phones and other recording devices are prohibited. This is to ensure safety and avoid any time paradoxes. Refreshments are served during the visit. For anthropological time-scenes simultaneous translation (if possible) will be provided.

* How much would it cost: Everybody, of course, has a long list of historical events they'd like to observe. Pricing of the visit depends on how many people would like to visit a particular time-scene (e.g. Caesar's stabbing). Only selected time-scenes are available. For customers that prefer to visit a locale over an extended amount of time, e.g. how did migration from Africa happen over 10,000 years, a time travel as a service pricing will be getting. Another factor that will increase pricing is the environmental violence of the event, e.g. one of the priciest time-scenes to visit is the Chicxulub impact, which is the limit of current safety technology, i.e. visiting the Theia impact is not supported.

Some suggested time-scenes that are top rated include:

* Natural/zoological time-scenes: Chicxulub impact (highest rated ever event), start of the Zanclean Flood (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood), Wet Sahara (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_humid_period), this is one of the most affordable visits, first steps of a vertebrate on land (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate_land_invasion), typical day in the Upper Cretaceous period (at least one sighting of a T-Rex is guaranteed)

* Anthropological time-scenes: Cleopatra's suicide, fall of Constantinople (single day, package for the whole siege is available as is visits to all 34 sieges over time), Socrates presenting his defense (can be combined with his suicide for a discount), conclusion of the Battle of Thermopylae (single day, package for all three days available)

> Since we're on the topic, which is one I have put some thought on, allow me to put forth my theory on how time travel as a business would work:

Sell tickets to hunt dinosaurs.

And they built up with their bare hands what we still can't do today.
What we can't do today or what we don't want to do today?
The labor involved may have been less than voluntary.
So would the surroundings have been green and marshy during the pyramid building?
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