Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
When someone digs up your neighborhood five thousand years from now, do you expect they'll also find full documentation of how, when, why the houses
were built, by whom and for what? Of course not.
Not a fair analogy.
You're comparing a house with an ancient wonder (and relic) of the world. Might as well compare a raisin to a watermelon.
Who really cares about how a house was constructed anyway? Now a huge Pyramid(s)....I'm all ears.
One might've taken pride in having created such an impressive structure such as the Great Pyramid; enough to leave some sort of writing or carving as
to how it was done. An undertaking such as this would've left a record of it somewhere, right? Yet none exists that we know of. That's curious.
It boggles my mind when I think about how in the hell these structures were created using only simple tools, some wooden sledges, and some boats (that
we know of). And the real kicker- they did it all with out the knowledge of the wheel.
They we able to construct these enormous stone structures which clearly would've required a keen knowledge in engineering, architecture, logistics,
astronomy, etc etc..... yet they couldn't engineer a wheel to make it easier?
I'm with those who theorize that the Pyramids were found by the Ancient Egyptians who then claimed that these structures were theirs. It's not
entirely improbable that they found them, settled the surrounding land, and spent many hundreds of years restoring and fixing them.
And the story told to Herodotus was a fabrication IMO, by a people wanting to take credit for something so amazing that no-one would ever deny the
power and prestige of the rulers who supposedly built them. Not to mention that it was told to him a couple thousand years after the Pyramids were
supposedly built.
It is my belief that modern day Egypt will do what it has to in order to keep the history of the Pyramids as status quo. If I was them, I'd want to
take credit for them too.
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[edit on 7-2-2008 by PhotonEffect]