Posted on 04/02/2007 4:37:58 PM PDT by blam
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A few years ago, some French “scientist” claimed the pyramids were made of cement! The most recent theory is that they were built from the inside out, whatever that means. Personally, I think the pyramids were built by the Egyptians as part of their religion, and every other theory is an attempt to sell books.
Yep.. That's about it..
The pyramid is the first logical application of multi-story architecture..
Why? Because it is the most stable..
Additionally, the basic Step-Pyramid is highly defensible..
The step-pyramid, ziggurat, and classic pyramid are all very logically the first type of major building to be attempted, regardless of what culture or part of the world one may be in.
There is no need for some sort of mystic egyptian knowledge about pyramids to be spread around the world..
Any culture that figures out how to stack two stone blocks atop one another to build a wall will eventually come the stepped pyramid at the very least..
http://www.specialtyinterests.net/hyksos.html
Chronologically Helpful Parallels between the Hyksos and the Amalekites
Are you referring to those XIV dynasty pharaohs with Semitic names, like Yakobaam (Jacob), Ishpi (Joseph), and Khendjer (pig, what a name!)?
Inside of 10 minutes, the announcer went off on a rant something like this; “And then, ~suddenly!~, there appeared in the midst of the deserts of Egypt, giant pyramidal structures which existent technology could never have built”.
A couple of minutes later ALIENS were mentioned and away it went.
[and I turned it off]
Depend which time scale you believe. Personally I have no opinion since i’ve heard several equally convincing arguments for several different pharohs. After all, we still can’t prove exactly what or how many the migration comprised or if it happened at all...we are still scratching in the dust.
Both. A - it was good for their religion but B, they invented papyrus and were able to get in to the publishing industry on the ground floor, hence their interest in building anything which could allow ranters like von Daniken and Hancock to publish their tripe. It's all a conspiracy, I tell you!
a picture of your dad? Just how old ARE you? LOL
The oldest paper ever found was with the Caucasian mummies found in the area of Urumchi, China. It had the extinct Indo-European language Tocharian A written on it.
Ockham’s Razor...............
Interesting - got a good link to a site - I’d like to read up on it. I’m sure it is in the GGG list but that’s kind of huge...
It's a safety razor with everybody using the shielded edge. Everybody! Nobody ever gets it right anymore.
True, but there isn’t any Amarna-period record of an egress of Israelites; the usual error is to equate a phrase “apiru” (”bandits”) to “Hebrews” and claim that during Akhenaten’s time the Conquest of Joshua was taking place. :’)
Joseph entered Egypt during the Middle Kingdom — the Egyptian mentioned by name in his story in Genesis occurs just once in surviving Egyptian records, and that is in the Middle Kingdom. During the New Kingdom, Hatshepsut went to Punt, and left a relief of the trip, including the name of the guy who met her when she came off the boat, and that name is the same as a port official in the time of Solomon.
Ramses II’s canopic jars were recently examined, and there’s a duck and cover going on right now simply because the contents of the jars turned out to be more than 700 years younger than the conventional pseudochronology requires. Eventually cosmic ray exposure dating will be done on the monuments of Abu Simbel, they will be found to be similarly too young, and there will be more duck and cover.
It is true that Ramses II had his own name and image carved over existing work — there’s a monumental head I saw in an exhibit, and it had been made as a representation of a Middle Kingdom pharaoh, but Ramses had it altered into his own— and while I doubt that Abu Simbel was made earlier, I suppose that’s possible. Ramses II had his own cartouche carved over the cartouche of Tutankhamen in the colomnade at Luxor, but near the top of at least one of the pillars, the workers either missed one, or figured no one could see it from the ground anyway.
Some of these theories are a pain in my Hawass
Hold it. Are you saying that extraterrestrials *didn’t* make the Pyramids?!? Oh, god, my head is spinning, I think I’m gonna pass out, oh, what a world, what a world, nothing makes sense anymore... [clunk!]
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