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To: SunkenCiv
The problem with the pyramids is that any idiot with sticks and a string could have laid it out.
61 posted on 04/18/2010 5:34:55 PM PDT by Little Bill (Carol Che-Porter is a MOONBAT.)
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To: Little Bill
The *real* problem is, the pyramids were tombs (despite a kind of weird denial of that fact), but were plundered; the outside of the Great Pyramid was once covered in smooth limestone some of the surface of which had been carved in hieroglyphic writing as noted by classical authors. It was plundered at least once in pharaonic times (probably as early as the 5th Dynasty), open as a tourist attraction in Greek and Roman times in Egypt, resealed late in Roman times (perhaps by the Byzantines), chipped open by the Muzzies during the Middle Ages, and yet, after all that misuse, a bit of the painted plaster remained on the interior walls; one of the early Egyptologists (sometime after Champollion's decipherment) found a reference to such-and-such a year of the cattle drive, the date of some lost event from Khufu's reign.
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86 posted on 04/18/2010 6:45:25 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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