If you regard those who bear discomfort with the Khufu/Khafre orthodoxy, as promoting the red herring notions that aliens built these two particular pyramids or one is racist against modern Arabs or Old Kingdom Egyptians, then perhaps you should stop reading this article here.
The feth did I just read?
Dude who is an expert in . . . everything, apparently, not only manages to discover how the Egyptians made the pyramids (through the use of an object no one else knows the purpose of) but is also alleging the plain had a massive flood up to the top of the pyramid. Despite no evidence of that flood anywhere else in the plain?
I managed a couple of paragraphs. I don’t think I’ll bother to read the condensed version, should it appear.
Too late:
“Ferrous based metals as an option, would have compromised quickly through electrochemical, chloride ion, conductive, and oxygen-based deterioration in the high-salinity (or even high-sediment content) water.”
~ Iron rusts.
“This pyramid was made after the manner of steps which some called “rows” and others “bases”: and when they had first made it thus, they raised the remaining stones with machines made of short pieces of timber, raising them first from the ground to the first stage of the steps, and when the stone got up to this it was placed upon another machine standing on the first stage, and so from this it was drawn to the second upon another machine; for as many as were the courses of the steps, so many machines there were also, or perhaps they transferred one and the same machine, made so as easily to be carried, to each stage successively, in order that they might take up the stones; for let it be told . . .”
~ They stacked rocks.
“…one thing seems increasingly clear: significant secrets have been obscured, lost not only in the realms of ancient engineering but also in the deeper rendering of humanity’s origins. ”
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I forget who it was on this site…but about a year ago we had agreed that it is likely that there was a civilization long before what we know as the Egyptians inhabiting the area that was rather advance (perhaps more so than we are today). The Earth is fickle. Meteors, floods, volcanoes and calderas….any number of earth rattling events could have occurred and wiped them out (almost) entirely. It’s more likely than space aliens. It’s even more likely than two illiterate Pharos serving as the motivation. Archeologists are continuously getting their pet theories dashed as unexplainable carbon 14 tests keep showing up to question their findings. We’re still looking for the Phoenicians, aren’t we?
The rosetta stone which provided us with our incomplete knowledge of ancient egyption is from circa 196BC, and is far from complete. The pyramids are from more than 2200 years earlier. People want to fill in the blanks, so they come up with “aliens”, “magic towers”, “flooding of the plains” etc.
The answer is we don’t know, but that’s not acceptable to some people.
I like the idea that levers and water could have been used to help build the pyramids, although I am suspicious of the ‘Impeller’ idea. Impellers need to spin kind of fast to do their work. But what seems very unlikely to me is the flood idea. A long to medium term flood dissolving the lower parts of the pyramids would have left evidence of sea life on the pyramids. Mussel shells, burrows, et cetera. A significant short term flood would have carried away stone, rather than dissolved it, and we should see evidence of such a flood. Finally limestone caves are almost exclusively formed above the water table. Not below it. Submarine limestone caves formed by water dissolving limestone are generally seen as evidence of lower water tables, lower sea levels, and/or subsidence of the land.
“But what seems very unlikely to me is the flood idea. A long to medium term flood dissolving the lower parts of the pyramids would have left evidence of sea life on the pyramids. Mussel shells, burrows, et cetera.”
Yeah, that’s where he lost me, too….and where is the historical record of such a huge flood?
It’s in the oral history of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific coast. That’s good enough for the S.C.C.
There wasn’t any huge flood. The great pyramids were known to have been partly dismantled starting thousands of years ago, as they were an easy source of already quarried stone. The rest of what this guy wrote is nonsense.
hey, numerology peeps.
Today is 4 4 24.
Check the book of Judges.
Ruth.
Have a nice day.
I’ll check it out. But stop calling me Ruth.
The article begins with a convoluted spiel denigrating those with alternate views, serving notice that you need not bother reading the rest.
What I found amusing, Killer, was him pointing out the Appeal to Authority fallacy and then going on and on to establish that he was an authority.
I rolled my eyes so hard I saw my own brain.
Just think, when turd does that, he doesn’t see anything.
A lot remains to be proved, but definitely a thoughtful analysis. Thanks, Kate!
Speaking of pyramids: “Recently American and French scientists as well as other countries that are conducting surveys in areas of the seabed of the Bermuda Triangle, claim to have found a pyramid standing upright on the seabed that has never been discovered. The length of the base of this pyramid reached 300 meters, 200 meters height, and distance from base to the tip of the pyramid is about 100 meters above the sea floor. Preliminary results show this structure to be made of glass or a glass-like (crystal?) material, as it is entirely smooth and partially translucent.” This is a quote from “They Found the Deep Ones” via Vox Day. I have had my posts previously discarded because I included a link, so I’ll let you search for this one.
Thanks Kate, that was really interesting. I would never have seen that otherwise. I’m not 100% onboard with what he says, but he did ask some good questions.
So, they do still pay by the word?
Karst landscape, the south Portugal coastline is full of it, all above seawater, caused by “rain”, lots of it.
I thought Karst did portraits, not landscapes? No, wait, that was Karsh. Sorry, don’t mind me.
The pyramids were built during the days of light gravity.
Ohhh… so gravitation is kinda like a person’s sex. It’s no longer a constant, it’s variable.
I just attempted telling you where I read that and my post vanished.
A story by Kurt Vonnegut.
I’m old enough to remember when pyramid power could keep your razor blades sharp.
One of the more plausible hypothesis I have read in a long time. Combined with the Younger-Dryas impact event the pieces seem to be coming together…
If the Romans hadn’t left behind voluminous records detailing how they did everything, people would be claiming Space Cyclopses built the aqueducts and aliens gave them Magic Concrete.
I quit when he started banging on about modern engineering construction estimating techniques. Dunning-Kruger effect in action.
Why didn’t the water get inside and erode the pyramids there too?