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| Pyramids of Egypt | |
| By: Orion Date: February 5, 2018, 1:27 pm | |
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| In the late 1800's an officer of the British empire went on a | |
| grand expedition to discover the meaning of the pyramids. | |
| Millions were spent on the expedition, and pressure was high for | |
| him to come up with answers. In the published findings, he | |
| found a great chamber with hieroglyphics painted in a room, | |
| tying them to a specific Pharoah, and to around 2500 B.C. | |
| In his personal journal, on that day, the British officer | |
| reported nothing of significance. | |
| He had used dynamite to blow open a pyramid, finding a chamber, | |
| that was apparently empty. That is where he claimed to have | |
| found the writings, of which there are pictures, and they can be | |
| deciphered, and have been, giving us the foundation for the | |
| dating of the Egyptian pyramids in general. | |
| In 2013 two German archaeological students slipped by "keep out" | |
| signs and ropes and scraped some of the paint off the | |
| hieroglyphics that this British explorer claims to have | |
| discovered. They took them back to Germany. And while the | |
| sample was too small to carbon date, they did find traces of a | |
| plaster that had not been used 2000 years ago, that was in fact | |
| something found in 1800 western cultures. | |
| Strangely, the idea that pyramids are simply pharoah's tombs was | |
| presented by this expedition, and despite the doubt cast upon | |
| validity of the entire endeavor, scientists to this day continue | |
| to espouse that idea as fact. | |
| It is important to note that tourism in Egypt today accounts for | |
| $8 billion annually, and that any disruption of that status quo | |
| could mean lost revenue, as such there is a strong motivation to | |
| maintain it. | |
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| Re: Pyramids of Egypt | |
| By: Orion Date: February 12, 2018, 4:44 pm | |
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| The Great Pyramid sits on 14 acres, 43,560 ft. | |
| Today's houses, half acre lots or so, are accurate to square | |
| within an inch or two. | |
| From corner to corner, all four corners of the Great Pyramid are | |
| +/- 1/2 inch to square. Today's contractors do not accomplish | |
| this with modern houses. Yet a primitive culture with no | |
| pulleys, wheels, or advanced technology somehow did it with just | |
| human muscle and labor. | |
| Today's skyscrapers and bridges account for expansion and | |
| contraction, as the temperature changes.....as does the Great | |
| Pyramid. To quote "savages and primitive man simply could not | |
| built something so advanced". Measuring tools, knowledge of | |
| magnetic north, advanced mathematics, the ability to move huge | |
| stones hundreds of miles, on and on and on......would have been | |
| required to build such a structure. All of this for a future | |
| grave? | |
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