Originally posted by merka
Originally posted by PhotonEffect
Take the 75 ton granite stones used in the GP-- those were brought from 600 miles (800km) away. Think about that. What kind of nautical equipment
would have been needed to do that? And how long would just that part of the project have taken?
What kind of nautical equipment? Duh, I dont know... like... The Nile!
First off, you may not know this about me, but I'm not an idiot. It's quite apparent they would've needed to use the Nile as a waterway for
transport.
Secondly, you quite obviously are misunderstanding what I mean when I say 'nautical equipment.' So allow me to clarify.
The Nile is not nautical equipment, its a river. I meant equipment in the sense of boats or maybe even barges. When I asked 'what kind of' I meant
as in how big or what type of. Basically, what types of water vessels would've had to have been built in order to accommodate and transport the
hundreds, maybe even thousands of tons of granite down the river from, yes Aswan, some 600 miles away?
They didnt drag a 75 ton stone 800km through the desert.
Well that's a relief.
And that's assuming modern Nile, with no modifications. In ancient egypt, we may be talking less than 10km on land, maybe even less than 5km!!!
5, 10, 15km, even that shorter distance is quite a feat to drag 75-200 ton stone blocks thru the desert. Let's see you and some buddies do it.
I dont see the pyramid as anything remarkable in terms of engineering. Yes its big. Its freakin huge and they where very skilled, no doubt. But
in the end, its just a pile of stones. It took a very long time, with hard labour to finish it.
Quite an understatement on all levels. You're entitled to your opinion though. But it's frustrating to hear people label them "as just a pile of
stones." I see that quite a lot around here. It seems ignorant to me. These are wonders of the world you're talking about.
I've said it before and I'm saying it again: Its nearly impossible to imagine the effort. We cant even relate to it, because modern society doesnt
work like the Egyptian did.
What's on display at Giza is quite frankly superhuman IMO. The amount of effort that went into it, like you said, is quite difficult to imagine in
our 'modern' world on a human level. So how did seemingly very human people do it? And where is the hard evidence that says it was the Egyptians?
Because most of what I've seen from mainstream Egyptology is all circumstantial.
I would be very interested seeing someone "translate" the pyramid to modern standards of a country like America.
Here, check this out. It will give you an idea of what it would cost modern day man with
modern equipment, etc etc to build the Great Pyramid.
[edit on 10-2-2008 by PhotonEffect]
How is it not special? They carved, moved, and placed millions of these huge and heavy stones, not to
mention with a precision that this world has never seen anywhere else, ever. To me that's pretty remarkable, sorry. 
I'm with you. Moving sucks big time. 
Where in the world was that found? 
