There's much debate over how the pyramids were built (c) Grant Faint
Posted on 01/18/2014 11:21:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv
There's much debate over how the pyramids were built (c) Grant Faint
I love it when “experts” long-held holdings are challenged sometimes by common sense.
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The Egyptians didn’t build them. Obama did.
+1!
Is that why all the attempts to tunnel in to find hidden chambers have always encountered rubble instead of great blocks?
Oh wait...
makes more sense than any other theory i have seen before
did the archeologists think all the inside bricks were all the same as the outside layer?
it would be silly to think that.
Imagine a brick house- is the interior all brick too? or would you (if you had to) pack it solid with inexpensive material and then put the nice bricks just on the outside?
So how did they “attach” the blocks to the rubble? They still had to raise them. The remains of the ramps are still visible, and the pyramids weren’t all built at once. The pyramid era lasted a couple of centuries.
Every once in a while, somebody dreams up a new way the pyramids were built in order to sell books. A few years ago, some Frenchman claimed the pyramids were actually made out of cement. I knew a leftist idiot who actually believed this. (He read it in a book(!) at the library, and therefore it had to be true.)
would a foundation of rubble have beeb sufficient for the known long-term stability of the Pyramids?? and would a foundation of rubble provide a base from which the outer layers would be/could have been laid with such precision??
while long not accepting without skepticism the stanards theories of the pyramids construction
i take with just as much a grain of salt this “experts” opinion
A tell is a hill created by many generations of people living and rebuilding on the same spot. Over time, the level rises, forming a mound.[3] The single biggest contributor to the mass of a tell are mud bricks, which disintegrate rapidly. Excavating a tell can reveal buried structures such as government or military buildings, religious shrines and homes, located at different depths depending on their date of use. They often overlap horizontally, vertically, or both. Archaeologists excavate tell sites to interpret architecture, purpose, and date of occupation. Since excavating a tell is a destructive process, physicists and geophysicists have developed non-destructive methods of mapping tell sites.
The Frenchman you mention is Joseph Davidovits, he actually makes sense (which is rare), and I’m neither an idiot nor a leftist.
I read something similar in Omni magazine a long time ago. The article I read “claimed” that the granite in the Pyramids is consistent with what a granite concrete would look like. It would be easier to transport ground-up granite which is “formed” the same way we build concrete buildings.
Not saying it is true considering the source but it is a reasonable theory.
....from that photo ....looks like they didn’t put any of the large block in place.
He explained: “Under the current theories, to lay the two million stone blocks required the Egyptians would have to have laid a large block once every three minutes on long ramps.
I haven't heard a good explanation of how they got around this one.
My guess is that this guy is right about the rubbish (stone debris, etc.) fill. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever gone tearing into the pyramids to see what's behind the first layer or two of stone, so it can't be proved that it's all stone block construction. That's just an assumption made by people who don't build things.
It makes sense that the Egyptians would build the structure in slices; lay down a course of stone for the perimeter and internal structures, fill with rubbish, add to the ramp, and repeat. As they went up, the ramp would continue up. Once they finished, they would start the outer finish and tear the ramp back down. If they used the rockers to turn the stones into rollable cylinders, the ramp wouldn't have been all that long. Or, it could have wrapped around the structure. In either case, there would be little evidence for its existence once the site was cleaned up.
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