Sudan: The Land Of Pyramids

Kenya News Network ^ | 1-31-2007 | Isaac Amke

[blam]

"Sudan has more pyramids that Egypt"

They fail to mention that Mexico has more pyramids than the rest of the world combined.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders

Review from Publishers Weekly

The great pyramids of Egypt provide a wonderful glimpse of the artistry, skill and imagination of the ancient world.
But pyramids can be found in India, China, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico and Ireland. In this provocative book, geologist Schoch (noted for his work in redating the Sphinx, which was recounted in his Voices of the Rocks) wonders how so many diverse cultures built such similar structures with similar purposes.

Using geological, linguistic and geographical evidence, he contends that a protocivilization of pyramid-building peoples was driven out of its homeland, the Sundaland, which geologists believe connected Southeast Asia with Indonesia, by a rise in sea level caused by comet activity between 6000 and 4000 B.C. Fleeing their homeland, these peoples took their knowledge of pyramid building with them into Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Peru. Schoch hypothesizes that the pyramids were built to reach into the skies and to penetrate the mystery of the heavens, source of catastrophe.

Schoch also asserts that the pyramids point to unity and symbolize the deep concerns shared by all humans.
Schoch builds his engrossing case on geological details of the pyramid sites he has examined around the world.
In the end, however, even he admits his evidence of a Sundaland protocivilization is speculative. As controversial as this book is bound to be, Schoch's evocation of the pyramids forcefully reminds us of their enduring power as monuments to the spirit of human creativity. 16 pages of color photos not seen by PW. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Description

Is it a mere coincidence that pyramids are found across our globe? Did cultures ranging across vast spaces in geography and time, such as the ancient Egyptians; early Buddhists; the Maya, Inca, Toltec, and Aztec civilizations of the Americas; the Celts of the British Isles; and even the Mississippi Indians of pre-Columbian Illinois, simply dream the same dreams and envision the same structures?

Scientist and tenured university professor Robert M. Schoch-one of the world's preeminent geologists in recasting the date of the Great Sphinx-believes otherwise.
In this dramatic and meticulously reasoned book, Schoch, like anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl in his classic Kon-Tiki, argues that ancient cultures traveled great distances by sea.
Indeed, he believes that primeval sailors traveled from the Eastern continent, primarily Southeast Asia, and spread the idea of pyramids across the Earth, involving the human species in a far greater degree of contact and exchange than experts have previously thought possible.

Voyages of the Pyramid Builders features sixteen pages of color photos and a special appendix, "Redating the Great Sphinx of Giza," in which Schoch provides his most up-to-date evidence of the Sphinx's older origins.

[Graymatter]

Arguably the first African copycats of Egyptians to be clean, articulate and nice-looking.

[MHGinTN]

Interesting

[SunkenCiv]

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[Argus]

The Lost Continent of Mu?

[RightWhale]

The pyramids in the images above appear to be very steep-sided. Also, could any like them be built now within any kind of national budget?

[bert]

Also, they did not provide a plan view. The Mexican pyramids Aztec, have been shown to be a map of astromomical bodies including a 10th planet.

The great pyramids also have been shown to have the alignment of Orion. It would seem logical that a plotting of the Sudaneese pyramids should be made and compared with the night sky.

[blam]

"The Lost Continent of Mu?"

That would be: Sundaland

[blam]

"It would seem logical that a plotting of the Sudaneese pyramids should be made and compared with the night sky."

I believe most of the smaller Sudanese pyramids have been shown to be tombs.

[blam]

Pyramids Of Sudan - Nubia

[blam]

[Fred Nerks]

Jebel Barkal or Gebel Barkal (Arabic: ÌÈá ÈÑßá) is a small mountain located some 400 km north of Khartoum, in Sudan, on a large bend of the Nile River, in the region called Nubia. Around 1450 BC, the egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III extended his empire to that region and considered Gebel Barkal its southern limit. There, he founded the city of Napata that, about 300 years later, became the capital of the independent kingdom of Kush. The 25th Dynasty Nubian king Piye later greatly enlarged the New Kingdom Temple of Amun in this city and erected his Year 20 Victory stela within it.

The ruins around Gebel Barkal include at least 13 temples and 3 palaces

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The larger temples, such that of Amon, are even today considered sacred to the local population...

http://www.answers.com/topic/jebel-barkal

Plan of the North pyramid field at Meroë.

[ApplegateRanch]

Thanks for the final photo, giving a perspective of the scale.

I'd still rather visit Egypt, as the following quote from Heinlein explains.

"A mouse is no less a miracle than an elephant, but an elephant makes a much greater emotional impact."

Quality over quantity.

Also, since none are even 3,000 years old, these would be the Sudanese equivilent of cheap Chinese knock-offs of high quality Western goods.

[Kenny Bunk]

Say Fred, the layout of those Nubian Pyramids mimics the constellation "Larry the Cowboy," discovered by Homer Simpson.

[dirtboy]

I would venture that pyramids were the form of choice because that's how you build when you haven't invented structural members.

[blam]

"Also, since none are even 3,000 years old, these would be the Sudanese equivilent of cheap Chinese knock-offs of high quality Western goods."

The oldest pyramids in the world are in Peru.

The Lost pyramids of Caral

[Jet Jaguar]

Really cool pictures! Thanks!

[Ax]

Only REAL men go to Khartoum on R&R.

[Centurion2000]

Kewl ... Egyptian Condos.