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French Egyptologists Defend Pyramid Theory
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| 9/4/04
| PAUL GARWOOD/AP
Posted on 09/04/2004 10:50:57 AM PDT by wagglebee
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posted on
09/04/2004 10:50:59 AM PDT
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wagglebee
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To: wagglebee
For really wild theories, read "The Giza Power Plant". After reading it, I came away convinced the Great Pyramid was never a tomb.
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posted on
09/04/2004 11:02:24 AM PDT
by
JoeGar
To: scott7278
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posted on
09/04/2004 11:13:28 AM PDT
by
scott7278
(I'm mad as Zell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!)
To: wagglebee
French Egyptologists Defend Pyramid Theory Amway has made it to Egypt?
To: wagglebee
The German led investigations, using a remote controled robot camera, inside previously unexplored air-ducts that connect to the "Kings Chanber", were interesting, but did not lead to any great discoveries. Hawass either was embarrassed by that let down, or sees a potential flood of similar requests if he grants this one. I wish he would, though. Much could be learned with very little destruction, using a fiber-optic video system to explore this new "room".
Hawass won't last as long as the Pyramids, so the French and others need only be patient, and get their grant money ready for the Egyptian Antiquties Bureau.
To: JoeGar
If it wasn't a tomb, what kind of power plant does the book theorize it was?
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posted on
09/04/2004 11:15:41 AM PDT
by
scott7278
("FR will NOT be used to help replace Bush with a Democrat." -- Jim Robinson, 2/01/04)
To: wagglebee; blam; SunkenCiv
Standing in their way is Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, who heatedly rejected the theories during a Cairo press conference this week. No doubt. That man worships those structures.
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posted on
09/04/2004 11:19:00 AM PDT
by
farmfriend
( In Essentials, Unity...In Non-Essentials, Liberty...In All Things, Charity.)
To: scott7278
If it wasn't a tomb, what kind of power plant does the book theorize it was?According to the book, no king has ever been found buried in a pyramid. All of the kings were buried in the Valley of the Kings. The only mummies ever found in The Great Pyramid were placed there long after it was completed. The book speculates that the pyramid was a large chemical reactor. Shafts were crafted that fed a central chamber where a chemical reaction took place. At some point in time, an explosion occurred in the central chamber as evidenced by the wall, floor, and ceiling all being pushed outward by 1/4 inch. It was a very fascinating read. The author was a mechanical engineer. No Egyptologist on the planet agrees with him though.
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posted on
09/04/2004 11:23:37 AM PDT
by
JoeGar
To: wagglebee
How far did the Media have to search to find SOMETHING the French wanted to defend?
To: wagglebee
KNEEL BEFORE APOPHIS!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: JoeGar
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posted on
09/04/2004 11:28:42 AM PDT
by
scott7278
("FR will NOT be used to help replace Bush with a Democrat." -- Jim Robinson, 2/01/04)
To: Psycho_Bunny
They'd better be prepared if they're gonna try to let out the Goa'uld.
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posted on
09/04/2004 11:30:38 AM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
(All that Botox has messed up his mind)
To: wagglebee
Nuke the Great Pyramid. Leave a symmetrical crater 200 feet deep.
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posted on
09/04/2004 11:33:55 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: ridesthemiles
How far did the Media have to search to find SOMETHING the French wanted to defend?LOL!! Well...yeah...
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posted on
09/04/2004 11:34:25 AM PDT
by
yankeedame
("Born with the gift of laughter & a sense that the world was mad.")
To: farmfriend
"That man worships those structures."
No doubt. From everything I've ever read about Hawass, he comes off as a pompous jerk.
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posted on
09/04/2004 11:51:18 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Jesus Christ ~ "whosoever will may come" ///// mohammed ~ "convert, submit, or die")
To: Psycho_Bunny
Teal'c will get you for that!
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posted on
09/04/2004 11:55:12 AM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: wagglebee
They just have to spread around more bac-sheesh (phonetic).
They probably haven't bribed the right guy or bribed him enough.
You can get anything you want in Cairo. . .with enough bucks spread around.
Bribery is a way of life over there, EVERY level of government and military corrupt. . .to include "scientists."
Sad.
To: Hegemony Cricket; farmfriend
"From everything I've ever read about Hawass, he comes off as a pompous jerk." Everything revolves around him. However, I do understand his desire to protect these structures.
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:00:50 PM PDT
by
blam
To: Hegemony Cricket
From everything I've ever read about Hawass He was interviewed by Art Bell. Hawass has his own hypothesis that Egyptians built the pyramids, and he has risen to the top archaeology position in Egypt. He is the man in charge, so archaeologists have to work with him. Some foreign archaeologists are still trying to assert ownership of the Egyptian past, but Egypt is in possession of Egypt, is putting its own will into the objects, and is giving them form. Egypt owns Egypt and Egypt's past.
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posted on
09/04/2004 12:09:16 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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