Oh oh, ive found 'that' part of the internet again . . . .

anticonscience said:
It's always amazed me about just how did they build the pyramids and the Sphinx's.
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I don't know, so it must be aliens.

Alternatively, hard graft, levers and ramps. Read up on the subject and you'll see diagrams of how they could have done it. Pyramids in particular have these sloped corridors in them that are thought to be how they lifted the stones up for each constructed layer.

Edit: gah, ninja'd. That'll teach me to read the whole thread first. Read Dimple's post, it has a picture and everything.
 
Dimple said:
Not me -

This is old but I've never seen it mentioned on here and for me this is quite a feasible theory.

Past theories include a massive ramp, a circular ramp, lifting machines and the one I preferred when I was a lad - Aliens.
Anyway, these French dudes have come up with a theory with quite a bit of backup which makes it all obvious now.

Main story here (click on the video) -
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081114-pyramid-room.html

Another bit here -
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070402-great-pyramid.html

The Frenchies homepage (click on Clues) -
http://khufu.3ds.com/introduction/

The plugin is worth loading for the 3D films too.
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I remember a TV program about that theory. The experts were reserving judgement, but seemed to believe it was possible. Last I saw they were trying to find the filled-in corridors with ground-probing radar.


Oh - the people building the pyramids were not slaves, but on wages. Probably pretty good ones. Many left messages inscribed on the blocks saying how great their team was. Egypt was a VERY rich country at that time, and could afford to pay the 15-20,000 people it took to build the Great Pyramid.
 
Liampope said:
Awesome!!:rolleyes:

Sales must be down on his other ebooks full of hokum and snake oil peddling. This is sure to be a big hit!



But never amazed you enough to check out the many investigations, articles, demonstrations, etc that show it was unquestionably possible that they were built just with plenty of slaves, rock, mud, wood and decades?
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they weren't slaves the workers quarters contained wine bottle thingies and the bones of workes show signs of medical treatment
 
Meridian said:
I remember a TV program about that theory. The experts were reserving judgement, but seemed to believe it was possible. Last I saw they were trying to find the filled-in corridors with ground-probing radar.
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Even Zahi Hawass wrote a forward for Jean-Pierre Houdin's book and he doesn't do that very often.
They also found other buildings that were built with inside ramps and looked at 'Workers DNA' where people today still build using the same techniques.
 
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anticonscience said:
It's always amazed me about just how did they build the pyramids and the Sphinx's.
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To an extent, that's a reflection of modern society. We're used to at most a couple of hundred people working on something (usually far less) with a very heavy reliance on modern tools and we expect it to be completed in a year at most.

What the ancient Egyptians needed to build the pyramids was:

1) A decent basic knowledge of some areas of maths. Which they had.

2) A lot of skilled artisans, specifically skilled with hand tools. Which they had.

3) The ability and will to throw huge amounts of labour, hundreds of thousands of person-years, at the job. Which they had.

(2) and (3) are so far from modern society that the results of them are amazing to us. You can have 40 tonne blocks dragged for miles if you have an army of people to labour at the task for weeks and you have people who know how to build the sledges correctly.

The only one that I think there's some uncertainty about is the great pyramid because its height and location seems to rule out an external ramp with a gentle enough gradient for people to be able to drag the blocks up.
 
arknor said:
they weren't slaves the workers quarters contained wine bottle thingies and the bones of workes show signs of medical treatment
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That alone wouldn't necessarily mean they weren't slaves. Slaves in the ancient world usually drank wine or some other alcoholic drink (almost everyone did) and might be given medical treatment. It was generally considered civilised to treat your slaves well and even those who didn't give a damn about their slaves might well give a damn about the cost of buying new ones and/or about their own social status.

But the evidence as a whole does show that the pyramids were built at least primarily by free workers and soldiers.
 
If this wasn't a 'family friendly' forum I'd happily perplex you all with what I found on a certain kind of interactive website earlier this evening..

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/hijacking thread title
 
You know what I think makes all this believable and a cover up? The fact that we have gone two pages without any appearance of Giorgio Tsoukalos :D

Very suspicious if you ask me.
 
Angilion said:
The only one that I think there's some uncertainty about is the great pyramid because its height and location seems to rule out an external ramp with a gentle enough gradient for people to be able to drag the blocks up.
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Read post 40.
Even Zahi Hawass favours that method.
 
Dimple said:
Read post 40.
Even Zahi Hawass favours that method.
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I watched a documentary about it a while ago. It seemed very plausible, but it wasn't proven to be possible. So I think it's correct to say that there is some uncertainty about it.

Or has there been a sufficiently detailed investigation of the whole interior of the pyramid since which has shown compelling evidence that's how they built it?
 
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