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Would the pyramids have made good grain stores?
BBC News ^ | November 6, 2015 | Vanessa Barford

Posted on 11/06/2015 6:30:51 PM PST by sparklite2

"If you go to St Mark's cathedral in Venice, there's a medieval depiction showing people using the three great pyramids of Giza as granaries in Joseph's story," says John Darnell, a professor of Egyptology at Yale University.

The belief was also popularised by Saint Gregory of Tours, a sixth century Frankish bishop, who wrote: "They are wide at the base and narrow at the top in order that the wheat might be cast into them through a tiny opening, and these granaries are to be seen to the present day."

The Book of John Mandeville, a popular 14th Century travel memoir, also referred to "Joseph's Granaries, which he had made to store the wheat for hard times".

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TOPICS: History; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: andrewsuniversity; bencarson; berriensprings; egypt; giza; greatpyramid; israel; johndarnell; johnmandeville; kentucky; khufu; merer; michigan; pyramidiocy; randpaul; seventhdayadventist; seventhdayadventists; stgregoryoftours; yale
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To: plain talk
leads me to question what else Carson could believe if he could believe this ridiculous theory.

Who knows - he might even believe that TPP is good for America...

21 posted on 11/06/2015 6:57:24 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: dinodino
Only a moron could look at the tiny amount of open space inside the Great Pyramid and think that it was designed to store wheat. The idea is just patently absurd.

And only a moron would look at my house and think it was designed to prep me for a couple of years of self sufficiency. The idea is patently absurd and yet I think it is true. Maybe the Pharoahs were thinking the same thing.

22 posted on 11/06/2015 6:58:19 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Starstruck

Guess you’ve never seen the inside of the Great Pyramid: it’s several million tons of various types of rock with a couple of very slender passageways and three small rooms.

Too much labor and material and expense for too little volume -
Wouldn’t hold any significant quantity of grain


23 posted on 11/06/2015 7:06:59 PM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Aliska

Almost all of those questions have actual real answers. And not just speculation, but historical records of when the pyramids were built, for what purpose, what the limestone surfacing looked like, the golden top stones, etc.

The Bible clearly states that Joseph stored the harvest from the seven abundant years in storehouses in the cities near the fields they were grown.

There has been a tradition that he built giant storehouses, and some through history have believed that the pyramids were what he built, but that isn’t biblical, it isn’t supported by historical writings, and it isn’t supported by archeology.


24 posted on 11/06/2015 7:07:34 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
IF they were open, of course they'd be EXCELLENT silos ... water shedding shape and .... oh .... no rain in the desert ...

never mind

25 posted on 11/06/2015 7:08:05 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: cripplecreek; All
They are 95% or more solid rock with very little open space.

Yup.

When the pyramids were excavated, did anyone find one grain of grain? (See my tag line of 15 years.)

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26 posted on 11/06/2015 7:09:28 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: Starstruck

Joseph lived around 2000 years ago, the Great Pyramid was built 4500 years ago. Long before Joseph stored grain.


27 posted on 11/06/2015 7:10:36 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: dinodino
Only a moron could look at the tiny amount of open space inside the Great Pyramid and think that it was designed to store wheat. The idea is just patently absurd.

Exactly, this isn't some dispute on an issue of faith, he just went full retard.

28 posted on 11/06/2015 7:11:18 PM PST by LambSlave
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To: bakeneko
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29 posted on 11/06/2015 7:12:04 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: ConservativeMind

My theory.

The Great Pyramid was built to hide Obama’s BC.


30 posted on 11/06/2015 7:12:36 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

I saw Danny Glover get buried in a grain silo in this movie so you may be onto something.


31 posted on 11/06/2015 7:14:45 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Chainmail
Too much labor and material and expense for too little volume - Wouldn't hold any significant quantity of grain

I didn't say that I believed the pyramids were built for grain storage. I have read extensively about the subject. I'm saying someone who hasn't could believe it without being a wacko.

32 posted on 11/06/2015 7:17:23 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Timpanagos1
Joseph lived around 2000 years ago, the Great Pyramid was built 4500 years ago. Long before Joseph stored grain.

I didn't say that I believed the pyramids were built for grain storage. I have read extensively about the subject. I'm saying someone who hasn't could believe it without being a wacko.

33 posted on 11/06/2015 7:19:05 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Starstruck

Pyramid as grain silo and pyramid as landing pad for gay Martians are equally as nutty.


34 posted on 11/06/2015 7:24:42 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: sparklite2

And how were they going to get the damn wheat out?


35 posted on 11/06/2015 7:24:50 PM PST by Logical me
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To: Timpanagos1

Christ lived about 2000 years ago. However, the Joseph of the great famine was one of the 12 tribal patriarchs and lived about 4500 years ago. Joseph and the famine brought the children of Israel (Jacob, whom God renamed Israel, and his other 11 sons and their families) into Egypt, and eventually into slavery. I have heard, several times from religious and non-religious sources, that the Jews of the Exodus account are believed to be the slaves who built the pyramids.


36 posted on 11/06/2015 7:30:02 PM PST by GilesB
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To: GilesB

Ok. Thanks. I just learned something.


37 posted on 11/06/2015 7:31:03 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Logical me

Bring in black slaves from the Sub-Sahara. What could go wrong?


38 posted on 11/06/2015 7:32:11 PM PST by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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To: Timpanagos1

Easy mistake to make, given the fact that Joseph was also the name of Jesus’ earthly father.


39 posted on 11/06/2015 7:32:49 PM PST by GilesB
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To: sparklite2

Ben Carson is a nut if he believes the pyramids were storing grain.


40 posted on 11/06/2015 7:33:18 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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