Posted on 11/05/2015 9:37:57 AM PST by jimbo123
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson is not backing down from a belief that drew widespread attention on Wednesday - that the Egyptian pyramids were built as grain silos, not elaborate tombs.
In a 1998 commencement speech at Andrews University unearthed by BuzzFeed, Carson pointed to hermetically sealed chambers as a sign the pyramids were used by Egyptians to store grain and food.
"My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," Carson said in the speech, referring to the biblical figure.
He added: "Now, all the archaeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs' graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big - when you stop and think about it, and I don't think it'd just disappear over the course of time - to store that much grain."
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Don’t take that the wrong way. The Great Pyramids were monuments to men who viewed themselves as God not granaries.
The bible paints a realistic picture of what Joseph did. He stored the grain throughout the land and then gouged the populace during the famine. The windfall to the Pharaoh was substantial.
Joseph was a very prominent person in Egyptian History. By the 18th dynasty, Netjerikhet was known after his vizier as Pharaoh Djoser; the Pharaoh of Joseph (or Zozer in Greek).
Joseph saved Egypt from a seven year famine and brought all the land of Egypt for the Pharaoh. He would have been a very prominent person in Egyptian History.
The Bible is silent about what Joseph did in the last 66 years of his life but it does say that when he died at the age of 110 years, he was given a Royal Egyptian burial.
It is quite likely that Joseph was the Imhotep of the third dynasty, the vizier of Pharaoh Netjerikhet and the designer of the Step Pyramid complex at Saqqara (which was really a grain storage and distribution centre)
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thank you for the post. like all of us maybe mr. carson should spend more time in the Bible.
The chambers were apparently used to remove grain from the silo, later repurposed as a tomb.
The man is NOT dumb. - There were pyramids that were used
for grain storage. - Dr. Carson did not wish to LIE. He
doubled down on HONEST.
Yeah, you’re right. Thanks.
The pyramids of Egypt remain one of the great wonders of the world.
How the Ancient Egyptians managed to cut the huge solid limestone blocks, transport them and lift them into position before the wheel was even invented remains a mystery.
The first pyramid to be built was the Stepped Pyramid of Djoser (Netjerikhet) which is part of a complex in Saqqara Egypt that appears to be a grain storage and distribution center. The Step Pyramid itself was built on top of a shaft that was originally used as a grain silo but then converted into a tomb for the Pharaoh. The Step Pyramid is really a series of Mastabas, made from solid limestone blocks, stacked up on top of one another. The Step Pyramid was used to bury Netjerikhetâs 3 wives and 11 daughters and Netjerikhetâs sarcophagus was placed on a platform in the shaft beneath the Stepped Pyramid.
Churches have been used as prisons but u wouldn't say that was their main function without an explanation would u??
Joseph built the first pyramid. Moses built the last one. This, over a span of 2000 years.
At this point whatever it takes. Carson needs to go. Trump needs to wrap this up and get ready for the general election.
The problem with the Trump hates women plan is that Shrillary is likely not going to be able to get anyone with a vajayjay to sit down with Chuck Todd or Katie Couric and tell a sob story about being abused by The Donald. He pays too well and he doesn’t sexually assault his employees.
Carson is a GOPe boy for certain.
I think he will self implode
Time Lord technology. The Pyramids are smaller on the inside
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