Posted on 03/03/2007 8:23:58 AM PST by aculeus
Head of Egyptian antiquity council files complaint against high school: 'Ancient Egyptians built pyramids. Why do they teach otherwise?'
"It is well known that the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids; they regarded these structures as a national project for ancient Egypt," said Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Hawass filed an official complaint to the Egyptian attorney general of Egypt against a Cairo high school for teaching the students that it was the Israelites who built the pyramids.
Hawass, prominent figure in Egyptian culture and around the Arab world, criticized the school curriculum for "insisting that the Jews built the pyramids and highlighting the fact that those who refused to partake in the building were physically tortured."
The longstanding debate over who built the five pyramids of Giza, West of Cairo, was rekindled at the first official visit of an Israeli delegation to Egypt, in 1977.
"We built the pyramids," said the late Prime Minster Menahem Begin at the National Museum in Cairo. He spurred fury among Egyptian historians and archeologists. Subsequently, the Egyptian press was full of protest articles.
The Egyptian Antiquities Authority, headed by Minister of Culture Farouk Hosny, announced on Monday that they objected to a proposal by a group of American Rabbis to establish an international committee to see into renovating Jewish sites in Egypt, including synagogues and cemeteries.
Well, let's put it this way. Egyptians supervised the work and wielded the whips. That was back in the day when Egypt was civilized--to a degree.
I read that Al Gore did it.
The pyramids were bulit 2750-2500 BC
At that time Jacob/Israel's sperm wasn't even a gleam in Isaac's father's eye
No, he just took the initiative in creating the pyramids...
No no no. Al Gore bought the productivity offsets so he didn't have to build them. But Kerry had a plan for building them. A better plan. A smarter plan.
You might add that the pyramids were not built with mud bricks that contained straw.
"And the people complained against Moses: "And now Pharoh makes us collect our own straw for the making of bricks.."
Or so it was written..
ping
oops...excuse me al's already done that! I understand....
and algore thinks people not believing as al believes
are crazy?
someone should ask al, if he's certain the sun doesn't play a role in the life of man, and that maybe al, the sun is a more powerful thing than all of humanity? The universe is so vast, how can humans be much of a factor in a planet's millions of years, al? al....look up guy, some of humanity are not the problem, but some of humanity who act and believe as you do....ARE! Stop with the craziness al, you are scaring the children.
opps...that's what you meant to do....
okay, how much is this going to cost me al?
you keep talking about those carbon offsets?
what are the real dollars and cents you think we should pay out and what's the plan? oh, yes al, I'm skeerd, I simply have to know more about how much in dollars and cents I'm expected to pay for your expert analysis and solution.
Wouldn't you know it....al wants to send us a bill later...
excuse...posted in wrong place
The Great Pyramids, that is. They were still making lesser pyramids for another 1000 years.
There weren't enough slaves available to be considered the primary labor source for the pyramids, but they were probably in the mix.
Roughly a thousand or so years after the pyramids were built.
I don't see anything about any pyramids.
All is forgiven. Go and sin no more.
The architect of the great pyramid was Hebrew...all one has to do is to look at the mathematics of the structure...given to the architect [I believe if I remember correctly he's the father of Geometry] by Our Heavenly Father...
The only certainty is that muslims, who contribute nothing wherever they go, didn't build the pyramids.
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