re: For people who don't believe Egyptians could build pyramids

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

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For people who don't believe Egyptians could build pyramids

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How do you know it was the Egyptians and not people long before them?

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3 million stones, hauled hundreds of miles, (in the sand) cut to perfection and lifted hundreds of feet in the air and positioned with even more perfection. They must've had a lot of free labor (slaves) and time on their hands. Could they do it, sure, in a hundred years or more with 3 or more different Pharoahs and a bunch of stone engineers. Imagine the support staff, supplying food and water and transpiration and other needs. Lotta loose ends to consider. They had to have help, no clue what that could be.

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They didn’t lift them. They built dirt ramps and then used moving ability (labor) to build each layer. Then they built up the dirt ramps for another layer and so on. Once done they simply moved the dirt away.

Some of the stones were moved by boat. They built canals to get them right to the pyramids.

Keep on mind they built older less nicer ones prior so learned as they went. And these things took decades to build

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Wars, invasions, mother nature. Not to mention they were extremely expensive and took 30+ years to build. And not all Pharoahs lived long enough in power to accomplish that.

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So unconnected civilizations made their own, similar styles of pyramids, without knowing how/why others did it.

And they all decided to stop building pyramids.

Why?

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They didn’t lift them. They built dirt ramps and then used moving ability (labor) to build each layer. Then they built up the dirt ramps for another layer and so on. Once done they simply moved the dirt away. Some of the stones were moved by boat. They built canals to get them right to the pyramids.

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Fair enough


But how did they cut the stone?



Some of the stones wrap around corners. We are talking about granite. You are telling me they planned these cuts hundreds of miles away at the quarry?

We are told they “cut” these stones at the quarry with pounding stones lol

The only truth about the great pyramid is that nobody has a damn clue how they were built. I have a very hard time wrapping my mind around the dynastic Egyptians building them. My kids are still being taught in school that Egyptians built them for tombs of pharaohs, despite no such thing ever being found. No Hieroglyphs depict images of them building them. The only known tool were made of bronze; making cutting granite extremely difficult. The one boat found looks highly incapable of carrying 70 ton granite blocks down the Nile. There’s much more to it than we will ever know.

Those of you who seem to find it inconceivable that a prior advanced civilization could have constructed them need to take the fact in that modern Homo sapiens have been so n this planet for around 300,000 years. Do you really think we just wondered around for the majority of that time not doing shite but building fires and banging rocks? We went from horse drawn carriages to modern lifestyle and in a crazy short period.

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the fact in that modern Homo sapiens have been so n this planet for around 300,000 years. Do you really think we just wondered around for the majority of that time not doing shite but building fires and banging rocks? We went from horse drawn carriages to modern lifestyle and in a crazy short period.

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yes.... thats exactly what happened... look at how life was 100 years ago....
we had the first car and building brick and steel buildings like the Empire state building.

200 years ago.....
the ICE engine was patented .... took 100 years for it to become something used in cars. Pirated on the high seas... people building log cabins.

300 years ago..
fur trading, indian wars, etc.....

on then go 550 years ago when Columbus "found america" really there wasnt much technological advances in those 550 years. basic life was comparable.


then go 1000 years ago, 2000 years ago...3000 years ago.... people have just been bumbling around for thousands of years.

So when a powerful civilization has a ton of people bumbling around and they worship 1 man.... he needs something for them to do... hey go move all these stones over here and spend your life hammering them into a smooth surface.

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Where are their tools? And if they were so advanced, why stone pyramids? Why not iron and steel?

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Why does technology have to be identical to what we have now? There are still technologies we have yet to discover. If you told me in 1985 that I would ne day have a computer in my pocket that could instantly send information to the other side of the planet…I’d laughed in your face.

We don’t find advanced civilizations because we refuse to look. The birth of humanity supposedly started in Africa. How many missions to uncover what’s buried under the Saraha have take place. Not to mention the many catastrophic events that have occurred on this planet over and over.

If a significant asteroid impact occurred now, there would be zero evidence of our current digital civilization.

My concern is not the moving of large stones to build any structure. My concern is just how ancient people were able to cut theses stones. Bronze age tools just don't cut it and I can't see using chicken bones will help.

Egypt has 80 pyramids. They are the easiest ornate stone structure to build. Prior to the pyramid Egyptians who had any wealth used mastabas to bury their dead. Stone kept wild animals from digging up and carrying off the dead bodies.

The Great Pyramid was built at a time when the pharaoh had the most political power and wealth. After it, Egypt never quite had that wealth and power to duplicate it again. The pharaoh used master craftsmen to build those things, not common slaves. Sure some slaves were used as step, fetch, and muscle. The master craftsmen are buried near the Great Pyramid.

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untrue

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We could go back and forth all day. Yes, you have some valid points, but your mind is closed to any idea outside of your own.