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To: SunkenCiv
Thank you, as always, for posting this article.

"A tomb newly excavated at an ancient cemetery in Egypt would have boasted a pyramid 7 meters (23 feet) high at its entrance, archaeologists say. "

Well,,, that's assuming that the Egyptians built Pyramids on top of tombs. Which they didn't.

We have yet to find a burial TOMB inside a pyramid. And there are thousands of pyramids around the planet.

Oddly, most of the public still believes that Pyramids were built to be burial tombs for ancient rulers.

4 posted on 04/01/2014 1:50:08 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

The Mayans put at least one tomb inside a pyramid, and of course the Giza pyramids were all used as tombs. An Old Kingdom record survives regarding the plundering of the tomb of Khufu’s mother who died while the Great Pyramid was under construction, and interred near its base.

Menkaure, the smallest of the three large Giza pyramids, was used as that pharaoh’s tomb, and also reused as a tomb during the New Kingdom.

Not only the pyramid tombs, but also almost every last one of the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens tombs were robbed in antiquity — apart from those few which were missed back then and robbed during the Middle Ages and up until the 19th century.


5 posted on 04/01/2014 1:59:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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To: UCANSEE2
We have yet to find a burial TOMB inside a pyramid.

So you are saying that Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure were not entombed in the great pyramids on the Giza plain? You really want to stick with that story?

6 posted on 04/01/2014 2:01:08 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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