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Posted on 05/21/2007 10:44:47 AM PDT by mission9
Drexel University researchers are revising the book on the Pyramids of Egypt, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world. The standard hypothesis for their construction speculates that ancient Egyptians carved the blocks out of nearby deposits of natural limestone, using stone age tools, and then floated the stones on barges, and used primitive ramps and levers to wrestle the blocks into place. The fact is, no one knows even to this day how the Pyramids were built. Many of the limestone blocks fit so perfectly that not even a human hair ....
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Before you go coasttocoastam with your skepticism, read the science. Romans used concrete too.
They were not the first to have used brick or mortar:
Gen 11
1 Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3 Then they said to one another,
“Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 4 And they said,
“Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
Yeah? Then where are the 7,000,000 molds they used? Duh!
1) Ancient quarries bear the perforated lines made by workers to tap out the stones and hammer them until they separated from the surrounding matrix.
2) Where are the molds used to pour the “cement?”
3) Why are there no representations of mold-making or cement-pouring in paintings or in the hieroglyphic literature? The pulling of stones is represented in their art.
Even one hundred years can be a long time for a human society. It does compute. Look at what they did. Look at what the Greeks and Romans did, mostly in a few hundred years. Look at how different our own society was only a hundred years ago. A thousand years is a short time for earth as a whole but a very long time for a human civilization.
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Except with the ice caps you can drill down to what was frozen 10,000 years ago.
The Egyptians built quite a number of pyramids , most made out of sun-dried brick, in the hundreds of years their culture existed before they built the Great Pyramids.
All it takes is a long rope and abrasive.”
Or a Simplex Molecule Chain
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the romans had cement,
but the technique was lost during the christian middle ages,
and later rediscovered.
Decades later the ball was picked up my a more credible (but certainly not perfect) researcher, Graham Hancock. But the damage to the basic theory was done by the ‘Chariots of the Gods’ and all the shallow spinoffs.
Making modern cement produces "greenhouse gases". The binder [theoretically] used by the ancient Egyptians was diatomaceous earth. That's recycling the leftover silicon from dead algae.
That's the last recycled theory I heard. The diatoms, that is.
And, because diatomaceous earth is natural, it's found all over the planet, and third world nations should be using it, rather than the carbon spewing cement factories.
If only the great library of Alexandria had not been sacked and burned by.... muslims?
I believe the Drexel researchers are doing some sound science, do you concur? A lot of the skeptics firing off here have not read the synopsis of the research.
Imagine if the Roswell crash had happened in Egypt back in the days of King Tut. Then it would have been the ancient Egyptians who reverse engineered the transistor the way we did in 1947. Imagine how technologically far advanced the world would be today. (Sigh)
Funny how these notions evolve. I read a fascinating article making the same point in the 1960s or early 70s in “Analog.” It also claimed to show evidence of the use of rotary tools of several kinds in doing various early Egyptian lapidary and stone masonry jobs. Anyone remember it or have an idea how to find it on line?
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