[blam]

I excerpted the article because it is fairly long and has many pictures.

[blam]

Ping.

[The Wizard]

this thing was not built with logs and ropes.....

[farmfriend]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs
List for articles regarding early civilizations , life of all forms, - dinosaurs - etc.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this ping list.

[Liberal Classic]

I've always found this attitude to be essentially a prejudicial opinion against people in the past that says they weren't clever enough to move giant blocks of stone. Therefore it must have been aliens/chariots of the gods/crystal power.

[KCmark]

I've been there. They are incredible. Pictures have a hard time capturing their size.

[Lockbar]

Yul Brynner built them!

[Central Scrutiniser]

Went there a few years back and was able to go inside the center pyramid.

It was amazing, the blocks were perfectly flush, level and you couldn't pass a hair between the stones.

Highly recommend a trip to Cairo, fascinating place...

[Dog Gone]

This notion of a vast slave class in Egypt originated in Judeo-Christian tradition and has been popularized by Hollywood productions like Cecil B. De Mille’s The Ten Commandments, in which a captive people labor in the scorching sun beneath the whips of pharaoh’s overseers. But graffiti from inside the Giza monuments themselves have long suggested something very different.

I am becoming more and more convinced that the Exodus never happened, at least not on the terms we once believed. Great article, and anyone with any interest at all should click through.

[ChadGore]

Slaves built the Pyramids. Duh!

[jetson]

I've had heard that they flooded the valley and built the pyramids with barges. Where is the barge evidence.

[spoiler2]

"Mark Lehner digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers."

So here we have concrete evidence, pardon the pun, of the first existence of privileged, perhaps unionized workers!

The egyptians were ahead of us in so many ways....

[yarddog]

I think it was built by the ancient Egyptians simply using massive numbers of people.

The one mystery to me is how they were able to cut the stones using only bronze tools. They did not have iron yet bronze will not cut stone.

[b4its2late]

Who Built The Pyramids?

 

My Guess, is no doubt - REPUBLICANS!

[Lizavetta]

Al Gore built the pyramids....just ask him.

[dennisw]

AERA Board Member Profile:

Matthew McCauley

Mark Lehner, left, with Matthew McCauley, AERA board member, on top of Khufu's pyramid. Behind them is Khafre's pyramid and beyond, Menkaure's pyramid and the desert.

New Directions: Egypt
While music was Matthew's focus during his mid-teens, he also had a strong feeling that part of his life's mission involved discoveries in Egypt. After reading the work of psychic Edgar Cayce (who proposed that the "Hall of Records" of the lost civilization of Atlantis was located under the pyramids), Matthew got in touch with the Cayce Foundation concerning his own theories about pyramid geometry. Hugh Lynn, the psychic's son, telephoned and encouraged Matthew to go to Cairo and meet another young American interested in Cayce's work. At age 19 Matthew followed up on the advice and met Mark Lehner in Cairo in 1974 (see facing page). The two young men explored the Giza Plateau in search of Cayce's vision of history, but they quickly became disillusioned. Gradually their quest metamorphosed from metaphysics into rigorous science.

When Mark launched the Sphinx mapping program, sponsored by the American Research Center in Egypt, in 1979, Matthew traveled to Egypt as often as he could to help. He was in the field assisting when Mark laid down the center point for the grid which was eventually used for mapping the Great Sphinx, stone by stone. Behind the scenes, Matthew helped support the project through fund raising and with contributions of his own music money.

AERA
In 1985 Matthew and Mark founded Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA) to promote scientific archaeology at the pyramids of Giza. As a member of AERA's board, Matthew continues to help with fund-raising, moral support, and advice.

Matthew has always been interested in nondestructive remote sensing, technology which allows us to "see" into the past without excavation. Now that the current computation tools render this approach more powerful than ever, Matthew is especially eager to be a catalyst for new kinds of data collection and analysis.

[humblegunner]

Who Built the Pyramids?

Lotsa folks, but I engineered most of the projects.

Ok, some were independant, but over-runs were rampant,
delays in completion ran about 66%.. it was awful. And hot. Humidity wasn't so bad, not if you stayed away from denial.
Err.. the Nile.

[kidd]

Who built the pyramids?
ELVIS!

- Mojo Nixon, "Elvis is Everywhere"

[Eaker]

You post some of the most interesting stuff on FR.

Thanks, Eaker

[uglybiker]

[rockfish59]

I know who can wreck them!