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originally posted by: wrkn4livn
a reply to: frugal
I too, think this is the real reason for the structures. They generated power and were probably used for communication too. The recent pyramids discovered in the Ukraine (I believe) are still generating power due to the water still running beneath them. Time will tell.
originally posted by: Hanslune
a reply to: Sparta
I noted earlier in thread that the Iron is probably from when the Arabs took the outer cladding.
Something to consider about the pyramids;
Before the pyramids the Pharaohs were buried in mastaba's, then after the pyramid age they were placed in rock cut tombs, so where and what did the AE do with their god kings during the pyramid era? If they didn't place them in the pyramids where and what did they do with them??
That is one of my favorite considerations!
originally posted by: Tsurugi
Because why does one man need three tombs?
originally posted by: wrkn4livn
a reply to: frugal
I too, think this is the real reason for the structures. They generated power and were probably used for communication too.
The 1983-84 ‘Pyramids Carbon-dating Project’, directed by the Egyptologists Mark Lehner and Robert Wenke, also discovered a sample of wood from one of the two boats, buried in the pits along the south side of the Great Pyramid. This sample produced an average calibrated carbon date of 3400 BC. In fact, a calibrated 1 Sigma range of 3520-3100 BC can be established. This independent result corresponds with the dates obtained by
Mark Lehner’s carbon-dating of the mortar samples from the Great Pyramid, averaging 3359 BC ± 610 years. The 3400 BC date also corresponds with the Pole Star Alignment Theory for the construction date of the Great Pyramid which holds that the descending passage was aligned with the polestar Thuban (Alpha Draconis) in 3434 BC, now more precisely calculated to be 3410 BC. Since the date 3400 BC is 900 years earlier than the expected date of 2500 BC, it was of course immediately dismissed by the conventional Egyptologists, adamant to save Egyptology the embarrassment!
originally posted by: glend
Interesting paper on radiocarbon dating of the great pyramid, suggests its older than thought over a much longer period of tine.
originally posted by: 5letters
a reply to: Hanslune
I dont think it changed over time so quickly. It seemed to have been customary at this time to inscribe hieroglyphic inscriptions including the deceased’s name and titles within the adjoining mastaba chapel and directly upon the sarcophagus itself placed within the mastaba tomb. There was a pattern regarding the funerary arrangements of Khufu’s children, with one of whom died before Khufu himself.
originally posted by: datasdream
Interesting that most of the theory's revolve around undiscovered energy output. If the output energy was used anywhere else there would be a need to move the power. Our present understanding of electricity requires a metallic conductor or a metallic antenna. Over long distances wireless energy transfer is a power waster as much of the power gets dropped. We all know how normal electricity flows across wires.
Could the small shaft uncovered be a waveguide? The waveguide idea would work but the usage depends on where it's pointed. If it's locked in place and the power was used there would have to be another corresponding device to refocus it. There would be no reason to create a waveguide facing the wrong direction. Otherwise it becomes a beacon only moving be the earths rotation. The far out view would be to use the waveguide to run a radar like output and use the sides of the pyramid as receivers.
It's a fun idea to play with but I can't find any evidence to complete the thought.
originally posted by: Kgdetroit
I'm relatively new to the subject so forgive me if the questions I pose are amateurish, im not nearly as well versed on the subject as many of you. I just finished reading Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods and in it he posits some very interesting theories backed up by what seems like solid evidence that really piqued my interest in what we know-or rather don't know- about the formation of human civilization. Hopefully my questions can at least provide a catalyst for further discussion on this fascinating topic. Again, I am not presenting the following as my opinion or what I believe to be fact, just some takeaways I got from a really good book that got my mind working and expanded my interests into this amazing subject.
originally posted by: Kgdetroit
1. How does the apparent water erosion present on the Sphinx juxtapose (or conflict with) the idea that the Giza pyramids were built during the 4th Dynasty, well after the climate in the Nile region drastically changed making subsequent erosion due to water an impossibility?
originally posted by: Kgdetroit
2. The dimensions of the Khufu pyramid correspond exactly to a 1:43,200 scale representation of the Earth's northern hemisphere- the diameter of the Earth's equator at its base and polar radius (distance from North Pole to exact center of Earth) in its height. What makes this particularly interesting is the correspondence of this ratio with precession of the equinox, it takes 4320 years for the sun to move through 1 constellation, aided by our planet bobbing up and down much as a cork in the ocean. The number 4320 and its multiples/powers of 10 are present in many ancient writings, making it unlikely correspondence with the pyramid's dimensions is accidental or coincidental. The numbers are too exact and appear in too many other places for it to be so.
originally posted by: Kgdetroit
3. Other pyramids have been found that have been attributed by Egyptologists to both the 3rd and 5th Dynasties, but they are nearly destroyed as they are of a quality far below those of the 3 at Giza. If these 3 at Giza were built in the 4th Dynasty and stand today as majestic and mysterious as ever, does it make sense that a civilization built really crappy pyramids for a while, then built amazing ones that rival what we can produce today in their precise nature, then go back to building really crappy ones a bit later?
originally posted by: Kgdetroit
a reply to: Harte
I do believe I made it clear more than once that I was a complete amateur on the subject and was basing the questions I was asking solely on the contents of what I read in one book. Otherwise my knowledge of ancient Egypt extends no further than the content of a general college history course i took a decade ago.
Thank you for the ever so humble response and pointing out the obvious, which is that I am ignorant on the topic. I made it clear I am a layman on the subject and tried to further a discussion which, as you so pedantically voiced, failed.
Whoever you are in real life, I hope you have a great day
originally posted by: Harte
originally posted by: Kgdetroit
a reply to: Harte
I do believe I made it clear more than once that I was a complete amateur on the subject and was basing the questions I was asking solely on the contents of what I read in one book. Otherwise my knowledge of ancient Egypt extends no further than the content of a general college history course i took a decade ago.
Thank you for the ever so humble response and pointing out the obvious, which is that I am ignorant on the topic. I made it clear I am a layman on the subject and tried to further a discussion which, as you so pedantically voiced, failed.
Whoever you are in real life, I hope you have a great day
Are you unaware that these topics have been discussed to death right here at ATS?
Does your mouse finger not work?
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