The Pyramid mystery

Al-Ahram Weekly ^ | October 2002 | Unsigned

[StructuredChaos]

Wow, Blam I once again find that your questions mirror mine.

I've always wondered about Pyramids and their ability to withstand disasters such as:

asteroid;
flood;
the effects of reallignment of magnetic poles;
radiation;
etc...

The Pyramids were an enormous undertaking. To assume that Pyramids are nothing but testaments to religion or notions of the after life oversimplies humans and missinterprets their biological imperatives.

Perhaps, at first Pyramids were built to survive cataclysm. In order to get people to sacrafice and build them they had to be told a story, other than, I'm building a vessel for me to survive a cataclysm. Perhaps, over time the original and true reason for building the pyramids was lost. But the false stories remained. At some point the false stories took root and people started building the pyramids to satisfy this false notion of after life.

I don't know what afterlife the egyptians imagined such that a pyramid was necessary. I do know that the pyramids were associated with the idea of taking people and provisions into a vast protected monument for purposes of surving something (afterlife or fill in the blank).

I wonder what an engineer would say about the passages? Could they act as air exchange conduits? Could they be used vent exhaust?

I've always wondered. If one were in the great pyramid, with all of the entrances sealed tight, what kind of cataclysms could be survived.

Call me curious but it seems someone else must have explored these notions.

[blam]

"Call me curious but it seems someone else must have explored these notions."

Graham Hancock does but he's usually a little to far out there for me.

[SunkenCiv]

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