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Would the pyramids have made good grain stores?
BBC News ^ | November 6, 2015 | Vanessa Barford

Posted on 11/06/2015 6:30:51 PM PST by sparklite2

"If you go to St Mark's cathedral in Venice, there's a medieval depiction showing people using the three great pyramids of Giza as granaries in Joseph's story," says John Darnell, a professor of Egyptology at Yale University.

The belief was also popularised by Saint Gregory of Tours, a sixth century Frankish bishop, who wrote: "They are wide at the base and narrow at the top in order that the wheat might be cast into them through a tiny opening, and these granaries are to be seen to the present day."

The Book of John Mandeville, a popular 14th Century travel memoir, also referred to "Joseph's Granaries, which he had made to store the wheat for hard times".

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: History; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: andrewsuniversity; bencarson; berriensprings; egypt; giza; greatpyramid; israel; johndarnell; johnmandeville; kentucky; khufu; merer; michigan; pyramidiocy; randpaul; seventhdayadventist; seventhdayadventists; stgregoryoftours; yale
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To: Timpanagos1
Pyramid as grain silo and pyramid as landing pad for gay Martians are equally as nutty.

Sorry newbie, but I don't give your insight a whole lot of credibility.

41 posted on 11/06/2015 7:33:32 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Timpanagos1

http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-html


42 posted on 11/06/2015 7:35:30 PM PST by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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To: sparklite2

Ancient Egypt did in fact have government run communal grain storage repositories, but the Pyramids weren’t them.


43 posted on 11/06/2015 7:41:17 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Cobra64

Very nice.


44 posted on 11/06/2015 7:53:56 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Thank you. I found one seemingly credible source in a Penn univ paper. The only talk I hear of pyramids is coast to coast, and they are a waste of time for most things, not all, imo. Little by little, I'll see what I can find out.

I guess I haven't been drawn to find some answers because as marvelous as they are supposed to be, I don't like them aesthetically. Now I was going over some of my old slides to get scans and find that when I went to Europe, I was more interested in the off-the-beaten path places, scenic and simple charm. Still feel that way about Europe. I guess I'm myopic in my world view.

45 posted on 11/06/2015 7:54:41 PM PST by Aliska
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To: Aliska

The pyramids are made out of concrete.

http://www.geopolymer.org/archaeology/pyramids/are-pyramids-made-out-of-concrete-1/


46 posted on 11/06/2015 7:56:36 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: sparklite2

47 posted on 11/06/2015 7:59:26 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Starstruck

No, the Pharaohs weren’t thinking that. There were tombs inside the pyramids and heaps of written and oral information to that effect.

If Carson can believe something as stupid as this Great Pyramid/silo theory, I don’t want him as CinC.


48 posted on 11/06/2015 8:01:08 PM PST by dinodino
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To: dinodino

Nuclear bunker if sealed up airtight with proper doors.


49 posted on 11/06/2015 8:01:28 PM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: sparklite2
The pyramids didn't just pop up out of nowhere 4500 years ago. They started out roughly 500 years earlier as structures called "mastabas".

Mastabas de Beit Khallaf | Sohag Atracciones

Some time after that they stacked the mastabas on top of each other forming a "step pyramid".

Step Pyramid of Josser

Eventually they would fill in the slopes to form the familiar pyramid shape.

50 posted on 11/06/2015 8:04:51 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
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To: Starstruck
I didn't say that I believed the pyramids were built for grain storage. I have read extensively about the subject. I'm saying someone who hasn't could believe it without being a wacko.

Not a wacko. Just a subject-specific moron.

51 posted on 11/06/2015 8:10:56 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: Ozark Tom
Nuclear bunker if sealed up airtight with proper doors.

Their plan for continuation of government perhaps - same as we have elaborate structures for our leaders to evacuate to today at a moments notice.

An event took place approximately 12,000 years which killed millions of humans and animals worldwide like the Clovis people of North America, mastodons and other large mammals worldwide.

Relatively fresh memories/legends may have indeed led to construction of these massive structures for protecting the elite of their day, not only in Egypt but in the Americas as well.

52 posted on 11/06/2015 8:21:23 PM PST by amorphous
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To: John Valentine
Not a wacko. Just a subject-specific moron.

Do you believe in Noah's ark?

53 posted on 11/06/2015 8:22:34 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: sparklite2

First of all; when Joseph was appointed to save Egypt from the coming famine, he had 7 fat years in which to store up grain for the coming 7 years of famine. They had to build granaries quickly. Each of the pyramids took DECADES to build using slave labor. The famine would have been upon them before the first pyramid was half built.

Secondly, The pyramids are practically useless for grain storage. They are just huge rock piles, solid stone upon stone, except for a secret passage entrance, and a few smmall burial rooms that are practically inaccessible. They were designed to be entered one time, for the funeral of pharoah, and then sealed shut forever. There’s no place in that nearly solid rock pile to store more than a few bushels of grain.

The pyramids were NOT for storing grain. I cannot believe an intelligent man such as the good doctor would utter such nonsense. He obviously gave no consideration or thought to the construction of s pyramid. It isn’t hollow and spacious. It’s a nearly solid heap of humongous stones.


54 posted on 11/06/2015 8:29:12 PM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: knarf

Plus, the shape, prevents food decay, and sharpens razor blades


55 posted on 11/06/2015 8:31:56 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (It's funny 'cos it's trure - Homer)
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To: amorphous
Nukes, I tell ya.

Roughly 12,900 years ago, massive global cooling kicked in abruptly, along with the end of the line for some 35 different mammal species, including the mammoth, as well as the so-called Clovis culture of prehistoric North Americans. Various theories have been proposed for the die-off, ranging from abrupt climate change to overhunting once humans were let loose on the wilds of North America. But now nanodiamonds found in the sediments from this time period point to an alternative: a massive explosion or explosions by a fragmentary comet, similar to but even larger than the Tunguska event of 1908 in Siberia.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-a-comet-hit-earth-12900-years-ago/

56 posted on 11/06/2015 8:36:40 PM PST by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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To: smokingfrog; Anitius Severinus Boethius
The paper I just read considered it but discounted it based on (I'll have to go back and look). The author proposed sledges or sluices and a system of levers. He didn't say it with exactitude, just proposed that it would have been feasible.

There would be some smaller stones left from either method, but your site is a more feasible argument for the precision in cutting, the relative ease of construction.

I suppose I'll encounter many theories and controversies and have to sort it out and not completely solving it. It was interesting your site claims the wheel hadn't been invented yet. If so, it wasn't too long before it was.

I actually, when prodded, remembered enough physice to understand how the levers worked, but I never was good at spatial diagrams, a diagram of the view from the top was too much for tonight.

Then I got sidetracked when I read the GP was the only remaining edifice of the seven wonders of the ancient world. So I had to go look up the rest thinking the Temple in Jerusalem (no) and Hanging Gardens (yes but may have been in Ninevah) and the rest are mostly gods or burial monuments.

I should just keep my musings out of it for now. Thank you for the link.

ASB, I had to look up where you got your screen name, Roman senator, consul, philosopher, b 480 AD I think. Also saw a couple of your posts here about your book on EMP. That is one subject on C2C that is scientific. It is George Noory's activist endeavor. Also saw your book and author. Can't do much more tonight but will check out some reviews on amazon.

EMP's are one scary subject and only the strong and mentally equipped people could prepare and withstand the chaos of such a cataclysmic event, either manmade or through solar flares or other natural occurrences.

57 posted on 11/06/2015 8:55:01 PM PST by Aliska
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To: Aliska

Where are the pyramids mentioned in the Bible? I just searched through several different versions in the youversion app, and find no mention of the word.


58 posted on 11/06/2015 9:01:10 PM PST by zeugma (Teach your child a love for motorcycles, and he'll never have money for drugs.)
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To: dinodino

“Only a complete idiot would believe that the Great Pyramids were used as silos.”

e.g., like this complete idiot?

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/nov/05/ben-carson-egyptian-pyramids-built-to-store-grain-1998-video-footage


59 posted on 11/06/2015 9:16:52 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: dinodino

“Only a moron could look at the tiny amount of open space inside the Great Pyramid and think that it was designed to store wheat.”

e.g., like THIS moron?

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/nov/05/ben-carson-egyptian-pyramids-built-to-store-grain-1998-video-footage


60 posted on 11/06/2015 9:18:32 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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