I shall be told that the
stone blocks used for building the temple were moved on
rollers. In other words, wooden rollers! But the Egyptians could scarcely felled and turned into
rollers the few trees, mainly palms, that then (as now)
grew in Egypt, because the dates from the palms
were urgently needed as food and the trunks and
fronds were the only things giving shade to the
dried-up ground. (Chariots, 94)