Location of the cores on the Giza floodplain. DOI:10.1073/pnas.2202530119Photo: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022).
Posted on 09/04/2022 8:33:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
For a very long time, scientists assumed that the process required the use of a river or channel, but today the Nile is miles away from the pyramids. However, on Monday, however, a team of researchers reported evidence that a lost arm of the Nile once cut through this stretch of desert and would have greatly simplified transporting the giant slabs to the pyramid complex.
The new study, which was released on Monday in the journal PNAS, evaluated the environmental factors that allowed the construction of the Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure pyramids at Giza, which tower over the west bank of the Nile.
The scientists reconstructed the rise and fall of the Khufu Branch, a now-extinct Nile tributary, over the previous 8,000 years using clues preserved in the desert soil. Their findings, propose that the Khufu Branch, which dried up completely around 600 B.C., played an important role in the construction of the ancient wonders...
The discovery of a trove of papyrus fragments at the site of an ancient harbor near the Red Sea in 2013 sparked the project. Some of the scrolls date from Khufu’s reign and tell of an official named Merer and his men’s efforts to transport limestone up the Nile to Giza, where it was fashioned into the Great Pyramid’s outer layer.
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Location of the cores on the Giza floodplain. DOI:10.1073/pnas.2202530119Photo: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022).
Wonder if it was canal built just for the purpose. If they can build a pyramid they could cut a channel also.
Hmmm. I wonder how this plays with the water erosion theories about the Sphinx.
Interesting. I like the map. It looks like the Sphinx is in the present flood plain.
I think that gets a /bingo.
The Sphinx itself has erosion, not just the enclosure. If it were just the enclosure with vertical erosion then maybe it could be connected but its not. The only way this channel could be connected to the vertical erosion channels on the Sphinx itself is if they had somehow fashioned a pump and giant shower head to spray it from above.
What about the horizontal erosion?
Does this mean that no UFO aliens used anti-gravity to lift the rock blocks over to the pyramids?
One of the weaknesses of the transport by river theory is what kind of wood was strong enough to transport 10-40 ton blocks. Also, has anybody found blocks at the bottom of the river from sunken boats?
Wally Wallington showed that the blocks could have easily been transported over land by a relatively small crew and using simple physics.
There ain’t any geologic evidence for this channel. Just some pollen study. It would be very easy to prove with a series of shallow wells.
Is such a thing even possible? Yes, it is.
Merer was in denial about Khufu building a pyramid.
No, aliens.
If there were horizontal water erosion then it could explain that but there is no horizontal water erosion on the enclosure nor on the sphinx. The horizontal erosion on both are wind(sand) erosion.
Mentioned by Robert Temple in his 2009 “The Sphinx Mystery” that a branch of the Nile came up to the Sphinx.
The only way this channel could be connected to the vertical erosion channels on the Sphinx itself is if they had somehow fashioned a pump and giant shower head to spray it from above.
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Explanation is that there was silt build-up around the Sphinx, and the silt was dredged out vertically over hundreds of years leaving the vertical erosion. There were numerous yearly religious ceremonies which involved a boat going around the monument so the silt had to be removed.
R.Temple 2009 “The Sphinx Mystery”.
They used reed (not wooden) boats which are quite capable of transporting enormous weights.
It doesnt have a good beat and I cant dance to it. I give it about a 3, Dick.
Not a particularly good theory of the many out there and doesnt stand up to much more than cursory examination. Youre never going to create runnels of that length to depth ratio by slowly removing a much softer material from around something much harder. Ignores a lot of other things. I would imagine that someone could write a whole book about just this subject if they were that motivated. Id rate it slightly better than alien woo woo but not quite up the the handwaving of most gate guardians.
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