Posted on 10/29/2015 3:22:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
“Amenhotep” or Imenhotep, the medicine guy (the mummy)?
IF it truly was one man who did all that, he rightfully belongs in the ranks of such geniuses as Leonardo da Vinci, Newton, Einstein, etc...
Pythagoras of Samos, OTOH, is remembered and revered for his intellectual work with the right triangle (and little else).
In contrast, whoever built the pyramids not only had the same mathematical insights millennia earlier -- but he used those insights as a mere tool for achieving his grander goal of precision construction.
When I took my Texan mother-in-law to visit the replica of the Mayflower berthed in Plymouth, MA, she asked the on-board (female) docent, "Where did all the people crammed into this hold bathe?"
Replied the docent, (in supposedly-accurate period English) "Bathe? Why,Missus, no one of a sound mind would go willingly into the frigid waters of the Atlantic!"
M-I-L responded, " No I mean, 'Where did they wash'?"
To which the docent replied, "Warsh? We dinna warsh!"
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I imagine that just walking on deck past the hatch to that hold would have any of us "moderns" grabbing our noses and heading for the rail... '-)
Outstanding!
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