Egyptologists: It is Time to Prove Your Claims

World Mysteries ^ | FR Post 12-2-2002 | by Will Hart

[staytrue]

Regarding the pyramids: How about if you quarry the stones as more or less round, and roll them to the site and finish shaping them there. As you go higher, you pile dirt so that you make a dirt ramp to the top. Basically, you are building a mountain of dirt with the pyramid being built inside the mountain. When you are done, you put the dirt back where it came from.

[mrustow]

Thanks for the fascinating posts. However, this gentleman has some beliefs he is not sharing with us.

[nopardons]

BUMP

[Sabertooth]

Pyramids schmyramids.

Let's talk about Baalbek.

Some of the larger stones in Baalbek weigh in at about 750 tons.

The largest Baalbek stone never made it all the way to the structure. It's 68' x 14' x 14', and estimated at over 1200 tons.

How'd they do that?

[Dan Day]

A few months ago a wide-eyed Freeper tried to claim that we couldn't cut and move even 20-ton stone blocks even *today*.

So I went web-searching for rebuttal, and ran across *hundreds* of examples of routine quarrying of blocks in the 20-1000 ton range, *including* such examples as 50-ton granite blocks cut and moved large distances in the 1800's using nothing fancier than a wooden cart and a bunch of horses.

Subsitute a large team of slaves for the horses, and clearly the Egyptians were up to the same level of task, at the very least.

[VadeRetro]

Don't know how they did that, but I'd be more impressed it they'd got the big one all the way to where it went.

[PatrickHenry]

No mystery about the pyramids. In all those Afro-centric courses they teach these days, it is revealed that the ancient Egyptians were black, could fly, and had command of secret powers.
Ancient Egyptian Flying Vehicles.
Multicultural Pseudoscience.

[betty boop]

A great read you might enjoy....

[js1138]

I've seen recent film of Easter islanders finishing, moving, and erecting a monolith with primitive tools and methods.

Is the article arguing there were no geniuses before modern times?

[VadeRetro]

He found that the theory could not even stand up to the rigours of routine investigative journalism<.

Apparently, neither does the idea that we went to the moon. Investigative journalism? Rigors?

[ContentiousObjector]

Well maybe the planet saturn was orbiting around earth at the time so there was less gravity so the eygptians were able to move the stones by hand,

damn, we need Ted Holden back

[discostu]

According to the online etymology dictionary Replicate comes from the 19th century http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=repl possibly even earlier since the noun form replication (a clear and obvious Latin root work) comes from the 14th century. The things in Blade Runner were replicants.

[MHGinTN]

Thank you, bb, I will read through it at my next break. [I still contend the big blocks were poured in place, then later internal solid blocks were placed. and more external blocks were poured in place, then solid internal blocks were placed, then more poured in place, etc, etc. 'Etc' the escape for the non-scientist, don'tcha know!]

[r9etb]

Even with the aid of trucks and helicopters they could not position the stones accurately and the finished pyramid turned out to be a haphazard mess.

That's probably because they cut the stones to size before they lifted them to their spots.

That's a bit of presumption on the part of the modern-day builders.

If, however, a stone of approximately the right size were placed up there, it could then be dressed to the proper dimensions in situ. IOW, no need for precision rock-shifting.

As for the rest, it's brute force -- and the Pharoahs were not shy about using it.

[expatpat]

To me, his point is not very clear. I think he's arguing that the explanations made so far are completely inadequate, and then perhaps that there were geniuses before modern times, they were so smart that we can't figure out how they did it.

[SunkenCiv]

saw the original edition in William Corliss' newsletter, bought it from him (I think), read it, really like it, recommend it.

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The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved by Joseph Davidovits hardcover earlier edition with Margie Morris

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[AFreeBird]

B4L8r

[Sam Cree]

read later.

[FairOpinion]

NOW you tell us! I went to the link, it's out of print!

Now you have to tell me what Daidovits concluded. :)

[FairOpinion]

The thread is interesting too. Thanks for the ping.