Who Built The Pyramids?

Harvard Magazine ^ | 8-17-2003 | Jonathan Shaw

[dasboot]

A search for "David Rohl" will bring you to some commentaries and descriptions-in-brief of his publications.

[blam]

"It's pretty technical, but he presents known archiological evidence within the framework of his revised time-line and builds a convincing case that the Exodus accounts, e.g., aren't too far off, if off at all."

So, with a 'corrected' (King's list I assume) time-line, at what date does he place the Exodus?

[dasboot]

Three-hundred years earlier.

[dasboot]

The New Chronology determination that the Biblical King Rehoboam (besieged by Shishak) and the Pharaoh Ramses II were contempories is secured by several archaeological finds and a completely independent synchronism, that being the recording of a rare solar eclipse in the reign of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Akhenaten.(12) Shortly after the of his father Amenhotep III, Akhenaten received a letter from his vassal Abimilku(13) of Tyre informing him of a fire that destroyed half of the palace of King Nikmaddu II at the city of Ugarit (north of Tyre on the Syrian coast of the Mediterranean Sea). In the charred remains of that palace, archaeologists found a tablet describing an eclipse of the sun that occurred at sunset in the month of "Hiyaru" (mid-April to mid-May). As the setting sun was considered a goddess in the Ugarit pantheon, the eclipse represented a particularly evil omen, and it was indicated as such on the opposite side of the tablet. Computer retro-calculation has confirmed that an eclipse did occur thirty minutes before sunset on May 9th in the year 1012 B.C., and that this was the only total solar eclipse which occurred within one hour of sunset at this location during the entire 2nd millennium B.C. Rohl therefore deduces that the palace fire and Abimilku's letter to Akhenaten occurred after (and likely no more than a year after) the tablet recording the solar eclipse of 1012 B.C. was inscribed.

Circa 1012 B.C. is the accepted time (in the conventional chronology) for the rise of King David in Israel, however it has until now been believed that the Pharoah Akhenaten ruled in Egypt over 300 years earlier! The letter to Akhenaten was one of 340 political correspondences written primarily in Akkadian, the diplomatic language of the day, and dating to the reigns of Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, and Tutankhamun. The group of letters are collectively known as the Amarna tablets after the site in Egypt where they were discovered in 1887.

Comparisons between the frequently mentioned "Habiru" of the Amarna tablets and the Biblical descriptions of David and his band of "mighty men" (2 Samuel 10:7) have been made by noted scholars. However, due to the 300 year offset in the conventional chronology, an association with the Biblical accounts had not been seriously considered. A new study of the Amarna tablets by Rohl has revealed that the ethnic and political makeup of Palestine, and the activities of the Habiru are even more similar in their correspondence with the Biblical record that was originally suspected.(14)

[eno_]

The problem is that you can plainly see that the outer finished surface of the pyramids, which was mostly pillaged, is very smooth and precise compared with the interior blocks.

The pyramids seem to be a pile of rough blocks which were then covered with smooth, precisely fitted blocks.

[rogue yam]

Who built the pyramids?

ELVIS!

- Mojo Nixon, "Elvis is Everywhere"

Thanks kidd. I saw the title of this thread and scanned it to make sure someone printed the truth!

[yarddog]

Well Elvis was from Memphis, there is a pyramid in Memphis. Memphis is in Egypt.

I am starting to figure out the puzzle.

[Lijahsbubbe]

ping a ling

[Consort]

The pyramids were built the same way that the Coral Castle was built — by one man. Or it was contracted out to the Luxor City Block and Stone Edifice Company, a non-union firm that offered a 3-For-1 deal on deluxe pyramids around that time.

[Kay Soze]

Jewish slaves.

[blue jeans]

It was built on the backs of those poor slaves who were treated like cattle. Case closed.

Regrettably, human life is still cheap to many folks (e.g. 40+ million abortions).

[Thinkin' Gal]

The pyramid represents the earth.

The Queen's chamber = Babylon, the 'heart' of the earth, just as it (the chamber) is in the heart (center) of the pyramid.

The true apex (the point at which the top of the missing cornerstone is extrapolated) = Zion.

Using these coordinates to transpose the pyramid and its passage system onto the map of the Middle East, the false summit = Amman.

The sphinx faces east, towards its own image on the ground... that is, the middle eastern borders which are of a sphinx. The sphinx beast on the ground is prostrating toward Mecca. Or, as a picture of Goliath, it fell upon its face to the earth. After all, there's a rock impaled on its forehead (the left temple)... just look for "Petra".

It was the Caliph of Baghdad, Adbullah al Mammon er Mamoun (gotta love that name), who rediscovered the interior passageways in 820. They busted through the rock looking for treasure, but found none. When the thieves er workers were instructed to dig at a particular spot, they amazingly discovered an amount of gold equal to their expected wages.

Matthew 6:19-24

19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

[happygrl]

The Pharoah Faucet Majors

Oh, that was very good.

I supposed the other aspects of the pyramids were installed by the other two angels: this is the clear evidence that they were constructed through supernatural means.

[georgiabelle]

Read later

[b4its2late]

So I guess correctly? Yeeeeee Haahhhhhhhh!

[twigs]

I would like to be added to your Gods, Graves, Glyphs early civilization list. Many thanks.

[Publius6961]

Who Built the Pyramids?

It is easier to answer the question: Who did not build the Pyramids?

Certainly not the existing nor the sandmaggots of the last 1500 years.

Next question?

[farmfriend]

Consider yourself added. Thanks.

[kms61]

Elvis.

[SunkenCiv]

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