Khufu And The Chamber Of Secrets

IOL ^ | 11-28-2002 | Owen Coetzer

[blam]

Posted for those of you who haven't OD's on Egyptian archaeology yet. (My interests have moved to other areas)

[blam]

Happy Thanksgiving.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Thanks blam!

Be sure you put me on your archeology ping list!

[InkStone]

Thanks blam: I'll never get tired of those. There's still many secrets yet unfound.

Happy Thanksgiving to you, and to all freedom loving FReepers everywhere.

[Mr. K]

Thanks Blam- I love this stuff!
I wonder why no one else spends a night there like Napoleon to scientifically test for these 'visions' - I would gladly volunteer

[blam]

"I wonder why no one else spends a night there like Napoleon to scientifically test for these 'visions' - I would gladly volunteer "

I don't know. Didn't a handful of 'them' die under suspicious circumstances after messing with king Tut?

[crystalk]

Hawass seems no longer to be laughing, as all of Egyptology takes a turn originally called for by the Sleeping Prophet of Virginia Beach, Edgar Cayce, through the readings of his statements taken down by his lifelong faithful amanuensis, Gladys Davis.

[bert]

Well, for the record, trhe kings chamber is not a tomb but a temperature controlled room holding a vessel that contains a volume that is earth based and is the basis for the system of measurements. so says Peter thompkins.

[struwwelpeter]

Ancient Egypt was a fascinating culture. It's simply amazing what that civilization did before it got its Moslem lobotomy.

[jimtorr]

Well, who knows (besides God) how old Egyptian culture really is? It was already ancient when the first dynasty started. That was merely the unification of a people, north and south, in spite of what that stupid movie, The Spider King, says. They read rather a great deal into sparse information.

After discoveries in Egypt the past few years, I'm not laughing anymore either at ideas such as the sphinx being 15,000 years old. This pyramid being 12,000 years old is right out, though. Too many records of its construction have been found.

[jimtorr]

Yes, it is a shame what the Muslims did to Egypt. Remember, though, that the Arabs were just the latest in a long line of conquerers. There were the Hyksos, Babylon, Persia, Greeks, Romans and even the French and English. The Arabs merely wiped out the last vestiges of the ancient culture.

[#3Fan]

Thanks blam. I'd never heard of the electrical feelings and visions before.

jimtorr: What records of it's construction?

[blam]

"Thanks blam. I'd never heard of the electrical feelings and visions before."

Yup. There's whole para-normal cult thing relating to this. I made the mistake of reading a book, Pyramid Power, in the early 70's about it.

I've read one geologists account that the Nile Valley during the Ice Age, with the oceans 300-500 feet lower, would have looked like the Grand Canyon. The Persian Gulf was empty and the Red Sea was landlocked. (I have a map that shows this reduced ocean level worldwide)

[blam]

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[jimtorr]

What records of it's construction?

Well, perhaps I exaggerate a bit. Just a bit, though.

We have the tomb of a master builder. Writing on the tomb walls sais that he was the supervisor of the entire project. We have a tomb of a construction foreman which says that he was in charge of moving stones. We've found what appears to be a village for laborers and skilled workers that's nearby.

Many of the stones on the surface of the pyramid came from quarries near the pyramids. These quarries were cut into the Giza plateau that the pyramids are built on. We know the stones came from the quarries from analysis of the rock and marks on the quarry walls where stone was removed. The marks match the stones in the pyramid precisely.

While I don't actually recall hearing of any real construction records, the evidence seems pretty conclusive.

[#3Fan]

I've read one geologists account that the Nile Valley during the Ice Age, with the oceans 300-500 feet lower, would have looked like the Grand Canyon. The Persian Gulf was empty and the Red Sea was landlocked. (I have a map that shows this reduced ocean level worldwide)

hmmmm. I find it hard to believe that much sediment would collect to fill a canyon after the sea levels rose.

[#3Fan]

hmmm. Maybe they draw some eletromagnetic force from the earth.

[#3Fan]

electromagnetic

[#3Fan]

400ft. by 400ft. by 400ft. X 3 pyramids would leave a big hole. I'll have to look at the latest news.

[SunkenCiv]

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