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originally posted by: CloneFarm1000
The answer is simple.
Thousands of years ago, a space creature conquered mankind's early civilizations and was worshipped as a God.
It forced humans to build pyramids around the world to act as localized doorways so it could instantly travel to Egypt, Mexico, etc.
After many human experiments, some genetic, mankind rebelled against the creature and destroyed these doors in order to trap it in one location. That location being Atlantis.
Before being killed by the Atlanteans, the creature being a sore loser yelled, "That's it! You're all getting wet!" and pulled it's trump card like the Predator.
Earth got flooded and the different civilizations around the world told their own versions of the tale.
Some humans were loyal to the alien after it's demise and created cults which infiltrated their societies years later and rebuilt these temples in an effort to pay homage/resurrect the forgotten space God.
originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
We often wonder, why did so many different cultures all around
the world build such monumental pyramid structures and why
does their purpose seem so enigmatic?
originally posted by: AOx6179
I don't have any problems examining all theories. So...
An immediate thought came to mind. If pyramids were meant to be an escape from a flood, wouldn't they of made the tops flat instead at a point? Also the tunnels and all that were built underneath, and often times going even deeper into the ground. These tunnels would have filled, and you would have a flooded pyramid, with no comfortable surface to climb to as the water rose.
Just my first thought on it.
originally posted by: Hanslune
Wow some interesting speculations in all those. Most however are incorrect.
Pyramids were built starting from around around 2675 BCE to the Aztec ones in around 1500 AD so widely dispersed in time and geology and built for different reasons, tombs and foundations for temples (the ones that have stairs up them).
Last Glacial Maximum- a time, around 20,000 years ago, when much of the Earth was covered in ice. The average global temperature may have been as much as 10 degrees Celsius colder than that of today. The Earth has a long history of cycles between warming and cooling. Currently we are in an interglacial period where warming has occurred for about 15,000 years.
Link to chart showing Ice Age Data
There was a rise in the oceans but it was slow. People could have easily moved further in land - instead of oddly leaving and going elsewhere but then the idea they formed other civilizations would mean they sailed around for a few thousand years before doing so in many cases. Folks would have just moved inland. Remember most people don't build right on the edge of the sea. The volume of the ocean is immense the amount of water in the ice was a tiny percentage of that and it took thousands of years to melt.
'Bunkers', they would suck at that. The pyramids in Giza are lower than nearly hills in the area of Cairo (also known as the Mukattam Mountain or Hills). Why not just use those instead of spending vast resources to make artificial ones - that can hold few people.
originally posted by: ChaoticOrder
It seems Hancock's shows has really upset some people... baffles me how some people can be so afraid of alternative theories.