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Stones of the Pyramids were Poured, Not Chisled
Associated Content ^ | 05-21-07 | Ranger

Posted on 05/21/2007 10:44:47 AM PDT by mission9

Drexel University researchers are revising the book on the Pyramids of Egypt, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world. The standard hypothesis for their construction speculates that ancient Egyptians carved the blocks out of nearby deposits of natural limestone, using stone age tools, and then floated the stones on barges, and used primitive ramps and levers to wrestle the blocks into place. The fact is, no one knows even to this day how the Pyramids were built. Many of the limestone blocks fit so perfectly that not even a human hair ....

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To: mysterio

Before you go coasttocoastam with your skepticism, read the science. Romans used concrete too.


61 posted on 05/21/2007 1:11:39 PM PDT by mission9 (Be a citizen worth living for, in a Nation worth dying for...)
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To: bkepley
Well if you read about them they are described as stone age/earily bronze age 3000ish B.C. 2700ish B.C. They are designing building Great Pyramids. Does not compute.
62 posted on 05/21/2007 1:19:46 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: mission9

They were not the first to have used brick or mortar:

Gen 11

1 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 Then they said to one another,

“Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 4 And they said,

“Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”


63 posted on 05/21/2007 1:31:18 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: mission9

Yeah? Then where are the 7,000,000 molds they used? Duh!


64 posted on 05/21/2007 1:36:31 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: mission9

1) Ancient quarries bear the perforated lines made by workers to tap out the stones and hammer them until they separated from the surrounding matrix.
2) Where are the molds used to pour the “cement?”
3) Why are there no representations of mold-making or cement-pouring in paintings or in the hieroglyphic literature? The pulling of stones is represented in their art.


65 posted on 05/21/2007 1:45:59 PM PDT by stanz (Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
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To: jpsb
Well if you read about them they are described as stone age/earily bronze age 3000ish B.C. 2700ish B.C. They are designing building Great Pyramids. Does not compute.

Even one hundred years can be a long time for a human society. It does compute. Look at what they did. Look at what the Greeks and Romans did, mostly in a few hundred years. Look at how different our own society was only a hundred years ago. A thousand years is a short time for earth as a whole but a very long time for a human civilization.

66 posted on 05/21/2007 1:47:17 PM PDT by bkepley
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To: FortWorthPatriot
> Is Scully amused? Aroused?
>>It's Scully. Does it really matter?

"You talking to me?
There's no one else here. You must
be talking to me ..."

67 posted on 05/21/2007 2:04:51 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: bkepley
My guess is that microbes being microbes if there are any they wouldn't be hard to find no matter where you landed.

Except with the ice caps you can drill down to what was frozen 10,000 years ago.

68 posted on 05/21/2007 2:32:04 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Don't question faith. Don't answer lies.)
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To: bkepley
It is my understanding that some of the stones (coffin, can’t spell correct term) in the Great Pyramid are machined to a tolerance we would be unable to match without laser tools. Sorry, just can’t see an early bronze age peoples doing that. It is also my understanding that he Sphinx real age is 12000 years. I think the Egyptians had help from an older, now forgotten more advanced civilization.
69 posted on 05/21/2007 4:08:33 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: jpsb

The Egyptians built quite a number of pyramids , most made out of sun-dried brick, in the hundreds of years their culture existed before they built the Great Pyramids.


70 posted on 05/21/2007 7:31:20 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei (One doesn't have to regret the Enlightenment to be a conservative!)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

All it takes is a long rope and abrasive.”

Or a Simplex Molecule Chain


71 posted on 05/21/2007 7:50:55 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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To: LibWhacker; blam; FairOpinion; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 24Karet; ...
Thanks LibWhacker. IMHO, Davidovits' is the only model which fits all the data; Zahi Hawass' approach is to underestimate both the number of stones needed, and the average weight of the stones. [Are Pyramids Made Out of Concrete?]

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72 posted on 05/21/2007 9:24:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated May 18, 2007.)
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To: mission9

the romans had cement,

but the technique was lost during the christian middle ages,

and later rediscovered.


73 posted on 05/21/2007 9:32:01 PM PDT by ken21 (tv: 1. sells products. 2. indoctrinates viewers into socialism.)
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To: Aquinasfan
Ancient Astronauts theories took big hits because their biggest advocate was Erich von Däniken, who was an intellectual lightweight at best, and a con man at worst.

Decades later the ball was picked up my a more credible (but certainly not perfect) researcher, Graham Hancock. But the damage to the basic theory was done by the ‘Chariots of the Gods’ and all the shallow spinoffs.

74 posted on 05/21/2007 9:40:52 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do suck seed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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To: ozzymandus
Ah, but there's a new twist. All hail the god of Global Warming!

Making modern cement produces "greenhouse gases". The binder [theoretically] used by the ancient Egyptians was diatomaceous earth. That's recycling the leftover silicon from dead algae.

That's the last recycled theory I heard. The diatoms, that is.

And, because diatomaceous earth is natural, it's found all over the planet, and third world nations should be using it, rather than the carbon spewing cement factories.

75 posted on 05/21/2007 10:09:26 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: ken21

If only the great library of Alexandria had not been sacked and burned by.... muslims?


76 posted on 05/21/2007 10:13:45 PM PDT by mission9 (Be a citizen worth living for, in a Nation worth dying for...)
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To: SunkenCiv

I believe the Drexel researchers are doing some sound science, do you concur? A lot of the skeptics firing off here have not read the synopsis of the research.


77 posted on 05/21/2007 10:18:22 PM PDT by mission9 (Be a citizen worth living for, in a Nation worth dying for...)
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To: mission9

Imagine if the Roswell crash had happened in Egypt back in the days of King Tut. Then it would have been the ancient Egyptians who reverse engineered the transistor the way we did in 1947. Imagine how technologically far advanced the world would be today. (Sigh)


78 posted on 05/21/2007 10:24:01 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: mission9

Funny how these notions evolve. I read a fascinating article making the same point in the 1960s or early 70s in “Analog.” It also claimed to show evidence of the use of rotary tools of several kinds in doing various early Egyptian lapidary and stone masonry jobs. Anyone remember it or have an idea how to find it on line?


79 posted on 05/21/2007 10:28:54 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: mission9
i didnt bother to read the article, but i just came in here to say there is no possible way they poured the stones for the pyramids.. even today we cant pour sidewalks that last 5 years, let alone thousands </s>
80 posted on 05/21/2007 11:05:35 PM PDT by wafflehouse (When in danger, When in doubt, Run in circles, Scream and Shout!)
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