This is pretty cool. At the risk of repeating myself, my view is that there is no *one* theory that accounts for all the pyramid construction methods. I see no reason why Houdin’s internal ramp theory cannot be working alongside a counterweight method, alongside a concrete method.
Can’t wait until some internet “researcher” finds the recipe for concrete in tablets given to humans by extraterrestrials! Those poor, stupid Egyptians. Can’t do anything without their alien nannies.
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Poor stupid Egyptians???
What about the entire poor stupid human species who haven’t been able to build anything comparable for the last ~4,000 years?
Better yet, on a ‘per capita’ basis, with the human’s growth to ~ 500X to 1000X the population since Ancient Egypt, why hasn’t the poor stupid humans been putting up roughly an average of 30 pyramids each year? 30 / year X 4,000 years = ~120,000 pyramids total around the globe.
So where are the missing 119,990 pyramids?
Even better, better yet, with the advent of fossil fuels and heavy construction machinery over the last ~150 years, which reduced the human effort to do something by a factor of ~50, why hasn’t there been ~1,500 pyramids eah year going up over the last ~150 years? 1,500 / year X 150 years = ~225,000 pyramids.
So where are the missing 340,490 pyramids?
Huh? Huh? Huh?
Face it booby, the human species is a totally lazy usless flop unless us Extratresstrial are here and flogging you putzes regularly and mightily.
BTW – Calling us “alien nannies” again will get you stuck down in a hot, deep, foul smelling mine for the rest of eternity.
You kneel and call us God, just like the Egyptians, and the Hebrews, and the Akkadians, and the Babylonians, and the Sumerians did, and we might ease up on the whipping of you.
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uh, in case you live in a hut, we have gone well beyond the technology of moving stones and making concrete. Hard to believe this comment.
Do you think the Israelite slaves were dealing with bricks of that size (Ex 1,14)?
no; the Israelite brick making is clearly with straw, standard method for house building; not “megalithic” structures. I presume you know that the Bible never says the Israelites built the pyramids or anything else that would qualify as a “megalithic” building in Egypt. We have extrapolated that from Hollywood’s Ten Commandments movie. Likewise, there is no evidence in Egyptian material for Israelites (Semites) participating on the pyramids in some sort of grand scale.
Not to mention the fact that in all of the Biblical chronoologies for the Exodus that I am aware of, the pyramids would already be ancient relics.
not sure what this is even about. The OT has no mention of Israelites being in Egypt before or during the pyramid age. Hollywood connects the Israelites with pyramid building, the Bible does not. I don’t get my material on the ancient world from Hollywood.
Ahh everyone..they found more pyramids buried in Egypt using satellite technology and infra red..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13522957
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!
pretty cool.
@ Waldeinburg..
Strange line of thinking.. I not deny our world had been visited by aliens. however there is a wide margin between visits and attributing world evolution to aliens.. Howerver to claim so, I think we would need more evidence, more artifacts.
Originally our earth continents were held together but because our earth grew, the surface divided our continents over a long period of time.. Insofar our archeologists did a good job
trying to trace human physiology and evolution, but amid all this new technology we humans
have yet how our level of consciousness changed..
Religions and even astrology attempted to explain phenomenons that are hard to explain, scientists of today build machines like the Hadron Collider to explain the origin of our worlds.
regarless amid all that new technology, our space flights, our fast planes, we did not find solution to our socio-economics problems, wars for profit, global warming, the destruction of our environment etc.. we may have evolved scientifically but are still very similar in term of ideology as we were 2000 years ago; and then in the same line of thinking as you do; how come after alien interference are we still acting like barbarians? We still have people fighing over a rock arguing whether the rock belongs to Ishmael or Isaac and having Christians predicting the end of the world every year.. some hoping for the return of Jesus, the judgement or others even waiting for Mahomed without understanding that capitalist interest (our elites) would not permit such a rule., capitalism prefer the republic of Nietzche.. the Glory of Rome, the empires..
I am not sure as to whether anyone should blame aliens or the gods for the mess humanity is in ( considering the majority falling in the cracks) The truth is humanity is responsible for it,
we are the cause of our own destruction and pyramids build long ago, may be the only thing that survive..