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To: PIF
Lol, you reference Hawass and Lehner in Post 91 as where you find expertise in your assertion about the workers of Giza and how they were treated.

Here, from the "poorly written, liberal piece of crap" article is what they, your own expert sources, have to say:

"Experts are thrilled by this trove of papyri. Mark Lehner, the head of Ancient Egypt Research Associates, who has worked on the pyramids and the Sphinx for 40 years, has said it may be as close as he is likely to get to time-traveling back to the age of the pyramid builders. Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian archaeologist, and formerly the chief inspector of the pyramid site and minister of antiquities, says that it is “the greatest discovery in Egypt in the 21st century."

Concerning Lehner, further the article says:

"But the papyri offer important support for a hypothesis that Lehner had been developing for several years--that the ancient Egyptians, masters of canal building, irrigation and otherwise redirecting the Nile to suit their needs, built a major harbor or port near the pyramid complex at Giza. Accordingly, Merer transported the limestone from Tura all the way to Giza by boat. "I think the Egyptians intervened in the flood plain as dramatically as they did on the Giza Plateau," Lehner says, adding: "The Wadi al-Jarf papyri are a major piece in the overall puzzle of the Great Pyramid."

So where do we get the idea that we know who built the great pyramid?

Your own expert sources Lehner and Hawass.

Where do we get the idea that the pyramids were built as tombs?

Your own expert sources Lehner and Hawass.

And your assertion that there are no writing from the time the pyramids were built?

False. They have found them.

But you lean on Lehner and Hawass when it suits your narrative (i.e. how the workers were treated), but when their expertise doesn't suit your narrative, you discount them.

So which is it? Do we know how the workers were treated and therefore know when and why the pyramids were built, or do we not consider Lehner and Hawass as the authority?

103 posted on 11/07/2015 9:42:07 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

You are in thrall to a liberal slanted rag. Hawass and Lehner are not ‘my’ sources, I only mentioned them because they are the recognized ‘authorities’.

Lehner and Hawass have a vested interest in keeping the public believing some early 19th century theory and Bible pounders are just as bad in that regard. Sure some of their findings are likely right, but only promulgated when those facts fit their paradigm; other interpretations of the same facts are forbidden.

The government of Egypt supports them to get tourist to flock to the sites because tourism is the only industry in Egypt. It is one big financial generating circle.

The rest of your post conflates various ideas that are not related to what I said. End of discussion.


105 posted on 11/07/2015 10:18:48 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius; Apple Pan Dowdy; sparklite2; PIF
One of the best documentaries of Biblical connections to Egyptology is Timothy Mahoney's: Patterns of Evidence: Exodus - Full Trailer

Not only accurate, IMO, it's well done and very entertaining.

106 posted on 11/07/2015 10:37:09 AM PST by amorphous
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