I don't understand why you think Egyptologists owe you an answer.
thats not their job. I had to do the research for myself to satisfy my original belief that the AE hadn't built Giza. When you do that you soon see
that the evidence is overwhelming. What I found is that this belief comes from not understanding how the AE could have done it. what this boils down
to is that I could not have done it. But then I can't build a house either.
the main alternate theories are
1) Giza was built by aliens (Zechariah Sitchen)
2) Giza was planned by a lost race but built by Egyptians (Graham Hancock)
3) Giza was built by Atlanteans (everyone else)
4) Giza was built by Hebrew slaves during the captivity
there is no evidence that stands up to scrutiny to support any of these ideas
Sitchin is in a world of his own knowingly making money from peoples lack of knowledge and belief in science fiction. His claims don't stand up to
scrutiny either as he has Gods from different time periods and civilisations all mixed up together. His most recent claim is that the wooden horse of
troy was some sort of alien armoured personnel carrier
Hancock bases his theory on Archaeoastronomy which is a method that requires a belief that the Builders thought like that. In essence it is a self
sustaining theory based on the fact that the AE must have thought exactly the same as he does. which i find very unlikely. there is no evidence that
the AE were even interested in astronomy at this early period and the Chaldeans were the worlds first real astronomers around 1000bce (1500 years
later)
and Atlanteans well, Plato wasn't a historian and there is no mention of Atlanteans building pyramids in any of his dialogues anyway. the only
evidence for this comes from Cayce (who was asleep at the time) and Madame Blavatsky(who claims she was told this by ascended masters from Tibet
while in a trance). there is no solid evidence anywhere on earth for the existence of Atlantis. bit odd don't you think that not one pot survived the
destruction of this global maritime nation.
as for the Biblical version, it doesn't say that in the bible which claims that they were in Egypt as slaves for 400 years and didn't even mention
pyramids. Bit odd you'd think being there for four centuries and not knowing of the existence of them. They do claim in early versions of the Bible
that they built the city of Heliopolis (which was On) (it was cut from later versions) and Heliopolis was in existence 1000 years before the time of
the Jewish captivity so unless they had time travel that doesn't work either. and we know that it wasn't built by slaves.
your claim for insider knowledge seems to me, if true, that you've been taken for a ride. Its certainly more likely than what you're claiming. that
there is a huge cover up going on but experts are only telling you the truth
thats quite funny if you think about it
so really, the posters in this thread as you pointed out know so little about Egyptian culture that they are happy to believe one of the above
theories, thats if they've even heard of them and aren't aware that people like me who have studied it have examined the alternate theories and
found them untenable
[edit on 12-11-2007 by kerkinana walsky]
[edit on 12-11-2007 by kerkinana walsky]