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Pyramid delusion

posted 9 years ago by nedeljkodjukic88
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Pretty good movie, though there are minor flaws and Barton's sex appeal is over used. It attracts the viewers, but it takes away from the genre itself.

Anyway, there is a claim in the movie that Pharaohs built pyramids to be their tombs. It is a worldwide belief, almost like an axiom. In fact, NOT ONE Egyptian body was found in any of the pyramids. All of the Pharaohs were buried in the Valley of the Kings. And all of the Giza pyramids were actually built long before Egyptian civilization appeared. With a completely different purpose(s). There's plenty of STRONG evidence for that, unlike those that official Egyptology offer claiming otherwise. Only to keep public in belief that civilization is in constant progress and old civilizations were barbarian and primitive (in a bad meaning that word has today). While they are unable to build a 10m tall pyramid like that.

[–] dawnrunsamok 9 years ago

I find it ironic, to say the least, that it wasn't until 1940, when a British pilot overflying the Great Pyramid snapped a now famous photo, that Western Science discovered that it's actually eight sided.
There's a subtle concave line which runs down the center of each side, visible primarily during each Equinox; or under certain light conditions. But only visible from the air!

It's fascinating to me that not only was it built with such sublime skill, but also that there's still so much to learn from the extraordinary accomplishments of humanity's ancestors. People whom modern society, from our limited perspective, have the arrogance to call barbaric.

"Renoir. I once knew a woman who modeled for Renoir. She smelled of paint." Michel Simon, The Train (1964)

[–] nedeljkodjukic88 9 years ago

- when one takes a tour of Giza pyramids, the guide tells a story of how all those stones were carved and processed with copper and bronze tools used in that period of time (although traces of those or any other tools were never found anywhere around the pyramids), but that is simply not feasible, not even with iron tools, because those stones, and granite especially, have bigger hardness than them. Only diamond tools of those known to us could cut them;

- builders of pyramids had knowledge of numbers Pi (3.1415), Phi (1,618) and similar thousands of years before Pythagoras;

- sediments were found on lower levels of pyramids (The Great Sphinx too) indicating they were built long before Sahara became a desert and long before Egyptian civilization - the earliest when there was sea there - 12.500 years ago;

- no raft can hold up a weight of a 2 tone stone block (Japanese tried it), never mind the 50-200 tones heavy blocks of pyramids. And you need to transport them, and lift them 100 meters in the air, put them down in a little chamber where only 6 men can fit in? No ramp would help for that either and there's no material for it anywhere around;

- the Giza plateau is perfectly leveled and the sides of Great pyramid are perfectly in line with 4 cardinal directions. Stones were built in with such precision there's no room to put a razor blade between them - though mortar or any similar material wasn't used at the time.

And so on, and so on... I find it even insults our intelligence what kind of explanations are offered to us and the things we're firmly taught since our schooldays. When you just start to use your own head and not take everything for granted and realize there are many better experts rather than those official, but whose voice is difficult to hear, you'll find everything makes much more sense.

Sorry, didn't mean to make this so long ;)