Pyramid Scheme
Posted by Greg at 06:25, 11 Jan 2010Over on the Daily Grail's User-contributed News Stream, TDG member zsitchin has linked to a news item on the construction of the pyramids at Giza. In the story, Dr Zahi Hawass says that new evidence - in the form of the tombs of those who worked on the huge structures - confirms the theory that slaves did not build the pyramids; instead the workforce was made up of willing Egyptians.
"These tombs were built beside the king's pyramid, which indicates that these people were not by any means slaves," Zahi Hawass, the chief archaeologist heading the Egyptian excavation team, said in a statement.
"If they were slaves, they would not have been able to build their tombs beside their king's." He said the collection of workers' tombs, some of which were found in the 1990s, were among the most significant finds in the 20th and 21st centuries. They belonged to workers who built the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre.
Hawass had earlier found graffiti on the walls from workers calling themselves "friends of Khufu" -- another sign that they were not slaves.
There have been plenty of theories thrown around over the years about the construction of these massive edifices, ranging from orthodox to off-the-planet (literally). So I've added a new poll (on the right-side of the front page) asking who you think built them.
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26 June 2005
2 days 16 hours
I think the more interesting question is still how? ... rather than who?
I read a lot of popular books on the subject in the 90's but have lost touch since then. I was never convinced by the "dragging stones on wooden rollers" theory and have yet to see a satisfactory explanation that doesn't involve techniques that were supposedly beyond the people of that era.
Nevertheless, I see no reason to assume the aliens did it.
Dave.
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12 April 2007
3 hours 28 min
Even more interesting (to me at least) is the why, rather than the how —re. the great Pyramid, at least.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
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Red Pill Junkie
30 April 2004
6 hours 25 min
Even more interesting (to me at least) is the why, rather than the how —re. the great Pyramid, at least.
Agreed RPJ. The 'who' and 'how' are interesting questions, but it's always been the 'why' that has intrigued me. Even right back to Gobekli Tepe - what sets in motion the thought process "that rock looks to be about 50 ton...think I might put it on top of those other rocks". ;)
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22 November 2004
2 weeks 6 hours
Apparently the galleys rowed by slaves were slower than galleys rowed by free and well paid rowers.
I think the superiority of the Egyptians at the time was more organization, compared to the rest of cultures. They had more available workers, and got them to cooperate over long periods of time. And the project kept focus over years. That's not easy.
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22 December 2007
3 weeks 20 hours
Back in the early 1970s CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite was interviewing Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and President Muhammad Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Cronkite said isn't it something that we are sitting at base of the pyramids that were built by Menachem Begin's people when they where in slavery. President Sadat kindly said we have no record of that in our history.
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