Cna anyone shed light on what the true purpose of the Pyramids really are? other than that kings of egypt wanted them built? why? I have looked a lil bit over the net and found maps saying they are near nothing of importance... Why build somehting so unique and huge and monumental with out a place to put it? It wasn't in the center of Egyptian trade or in the capital.... but in the middle of the desert.

from cassiopaea.org this channeling session provided the following:

Q: (L) Zecariah Sitchen proposes that the pyramid was built as a permanent marking system to navigate the solar system, could you comment on that idea?
A: That is incorrect. The pyramids were built as energy storage and transference facilities. They were built by the descendants of those known to you as the
Atlanteans who are, of course, your ancestors in soul matters. They were not built to be markers for anything.

apparently when Atlantis was in its heyday they build pyramids that were bigger than the ones at Giza but not out of rock but out of a pure artificial crystal that they manufactured. This was an energy souce for that culture and very important to their civilization. There is rumoured to be several of these on the ocean floors in various locations but covered up etc. Some are said to just barely break the surface of the ocean in a few cases but are not recognizable by people in most cases. Several are said to be in the caribbean area eg. the Bermuda Triangle area.

werent they supposed to be the tombs for the pharohs?

yes that is the most used use for them, always built for pharohs

Originally posted by TekNo88
werent they supposed to be the tombs for the pharohs?

Depends on who you talk to. If I recall, there are no sarcophagi in the pyramids at Giza. The pyramids are generally attributed to the Pharaohs because of markings found inside the pyramids, for example a mark on one ceiling block that Egyptologists claim was put there by Khufu or Kafhre's (I don't remember at the moment) workers during quarrying.

Personally, I'm somewhat doubtful of that as the determining factor in this. That's kind of like saying I can claim I built the Empire State Building if I put my name on a brick while I was there. The time frame for construction at Giza has long been in question by many.

Some say the pyramids were built as early as 14,000 years ago, while orthodox Egyptologists seem to have agreed at a date somewhere around 4500 years ago.

Both sides have made arguments for their beliefs, with 2500 BCE as the currently accepted date.

What intrigues me about the date from 14000 or so years ago is that this could have coincided with the end of the last Ice Age, form what I've read.

Anyway, there's a lot that we still haven't discovered about the history of Egypt's megalithic structures, such as the Pyramids and Great Sphinx. In some ways, the entire Giza plateau is a big question that hasn't been answered to the satisfaction of everyone out there.

Yea, I think I saw a show about the pyramids. There was a little hieroglyph of an airplane. Spooky.

That indeed is the problem, the great pyramid, supposidly built over 20 years by thousands of workers had not one bit of evidence that it was a tomb.

DemonHunter is right, they had to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find 'something' to point to to claim that it was a tomb. But we also know that tomb raiders have been piloring the pyramids since shortly after their construction also, so those markings are suspect at best.

I just found this: 
Make of it what u will. Peace 

[Edited on 11-2-2004 by sanctum]www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=4332908

[Edited on 11-2-2004 by sanctum]

Sorry, I can't get the link to work, but it's worth a read.

The ancient Egyptians worshiped their pharaohs as gods thats why they built pyramids as tombs for their pharaohs

Is their any link between the pyramids in Giza and the pyramids built by the Aztecs? Or is this just coincidence?

Thanks

Originally posted by AD5673
The ancient Egyptians worshiped their pharaohs as gods thats why they built pyramids as tombs for their pharaohs

I think it is the opposite. Ancient Atlanteans built the great pyramids using highly advanced tech which we are not as of yet familiar with. The purpose of these pyramids was as power source for reconstructed civilization after its fabled destruction. Due to destruction of ancient Atlantis the technology was lost to reproduce large scale crystal pyramids as had been constructed and used before.

Instead the next best thing was used: stone which is a type of crude crystal. As the Atlantean cultural remnants began to die off the remaining Egyptians built crude pyramids in homage and in tribute to the original Egyptians!

That is the only true explanation for what we see today.