the reason for the pyrimids, page 1

There's a lot of writing by the Egyptians of that time that explain why the pyramids were built -- and they are, indeed, tombs. There are 100 or so of them around (not just the Giza ones) and they show stages in development.

Here's a good (easy to read) page on them:
www.culturefocus.com...

Remember that although photographs show the pyramids as isolated, impressive structures, that they were actually part of a large construction (lots of time portions of these buildings were of mud brick and did wash away in the rains... because they're mud, of course.) In addition to the pyramids, there were temples so that people could bring offerings to the dead king/risen god.

And, of course, at Giza they have the workmen's huts still there. Archaeologists are finding old business records, graffiti, letters demanding goods and products for the workers, records of the work, prayers to gods, and so on and so forth in the workmen's area as well as the written records they left on the temple walls (remember, those aren't just pretty pictures. It's a language and one that we know how to read. (okay, one language with several thousand years of modifications and actually two scripts -- demotic and hieroglyphic, but who's counting, eh?)


Here's a fun page with all sorts of information on Egypt, including how to write the numbers:
www.discoveringegypt.com...

It's always fun to write stuff in hieroglyphics!

So, we already know what they were built for and about the people who were building them from the writing they left. And if you learn some hieroglyphics and language, you can actually read the records for yourself.

[edit on 11-8-2005 by Byrd]

According to our present knowledge the Great Pyramid is mostly solid mass, it’s only known interior spaces being the Descending passage (the original entrance), the Ascending passage, the Grand Gallery, a mysterious grotto, an equally mysterious subterranean chamber, and the two main chambers. These two chambers, called the King's Chamber and the Queen's Chamber, have unfortunately retained the misleading names given to them by early Arab visitors to the pyramid. It is an Arab custom to bury men in tombs with a flat roof and women in rooms with a gabled roof; therefore, in the Great Pyramid, the flat-roofed granite chamber became the King's Chamber, while the gabled, limestone chamber below became the Queen's. Even those archaeologists who still stubbornly subscribe to the tomb theory of the pyramid do not believe that a queen or anyone else was ever buried in the limestone chamber.

www.sacredsites.com...

I did a quick search and it seems as though there is another chamber (from what dozens of sites say, both Alien based and Scientifically based) as well as another chamber still under the Sphinx.

I suppose if you read why the Denver Airport Murals were made the way they were, people will write that it was only a memorial. But hey, they dont know, only the people behind it really know what its about.

How about the way washington was designed, just co-incidence? most people might not even mention it at all, yet some have found other meanings.

The fact that they are tombs does not really explain why they were built. the Pyramid shape is a very popular symbol of power, even today




In my opinion the idea that they were built as tombs and then the bodies were put somewhere else is ludicrous and a better explanantion must be available than that.

so how many pyramids are there (i dont even know this, i know nothing)

and how many had bodies inside? what about just coffins or something?
i had the impression that they were all full of mummies.

look at it



i cant beleive that the king built it yet didnt use it, how gutted would he be, lol. Surely if they have the organization to build something like that, they can protect it from criminals once it is built.

Source

I would like to know how everyone reaches a conclusion that this was to the coffer to hold the sarcophagus. I have never seen a reference to any sort of writing (by the Egyptians) inside or outside of the pyramids that say such a thing.

In fact, the only mention I have ever seen is because It's the King's Chamber which I showed above as an assumption.

In fact to me, it looks like a big stone box. That probably held something or was going to hold something. A lot more important then one King.

But the simple question is; "Did that something ever arrive"?

My personnal view is a simple one. The pyramids were built over an extended period of time. Probably hundreds of years. Probably before the dates we give them. Khafre (I think it was) just did a touch up on them.

I'd go as far as to say it was built as a "resting" place (Not tomb) for a God which never arrived. Shut off and sealed till he did arrive.

It was found empty because he never did.

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