Who built the great pyramid 5,000 years ago? Was it  the Egyptians, God, Enoch, or space aliens?
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Egyptians did NOT build the great pyramids at Giza but did build many smaller, cruder pyramids.  The Bent Pyramid is one example of the ones they did build.\nThe main question is this: How could the ancient Egyptians emerge from the stone age, build a structure as big as the Great Pyramid at Giza, build a slightly smaller one, then never build another one to match either one?  Supposedly Khufu had the GP built, but there is absolutely not one shred of evidence that he did.  NOt one cartouche, wall inscription, nothing inside it.\nEither Altlanteans or aliens built it.
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About Egyptian Pyramids\n\nThere are no more famous ancient sites within Egypt, or for that matter elsewhere in the world, than the Great Pyramids at Giza. They are, without question, the icon most associated with the Egypt. They have been both the main destination for tourists, and a source of imaginative thought to the world for over three thousand years.\n\nHowever, there are actually over 100 pyramids in Egypt, many of which are relatively unknown to anyone who is not an ancient Egypt enthusiast. All but a very few are grouped around and near the City of Cairo, just south of the Nile Delta. Otherwise, only one royal pyramid is known in southern Egypt (at Abydos), that being the one built by Ahmose, founder of the 18th Dynasty and Egypt's New Kingdom. It may have also been the last royal pyramid built in Egypt. \n\nHence, major pyramids were not built throughout Egypt's ancient history. The Pyramid Age began with a burst of building, starting with the 3rd Dynasty reign of Djoser. Some of the early kings, most specifically Snefru, built more than one pyramid. Almost all of the kings added to their number through the end of the Middle Kingdom, with the possible exception of the First Intermediate Period between the Old and Middle Kingdoms. After the first Pharaoh of Egypt's New Kingdom, Ahmose, royal pyramid building by Egyptians ceased entirely. Somewhat abruptly the kings of the New Kingdom chose, rather than making their tombs completely obvious, to hide them in the hills of the West Bank of Thebes (modern Luxor). \n\nHowever, smaller pyramids were constructed, for example in the Deir el-Medina necropolis, by private individuals. The Late Period Nubians who ruled Egypt also built relatively small pyramids with much steeper sides, though these were in fact constructed in Nubia itself. This tradition was carried on in Nubia after these southern rulers lost control of Egypt, and eventually, more pyramids were actually built in Nubia than Egypt, though on a much smaller scale. \n\nOther pyramids in the world certainly exist, but their purpose, for the most part, was different than those of ancient Egypt. The most famous outside Egypt are probably those located in Mexico and to the south of Mexico, but these appear to have been built more as temples. In Egypt, all but a select few of the pyramids were built as tombs, sometimes to hold the physical body of a pharaoh (as well as other individuals), or to hold the soul of the deceased (as in the case of the small cult pyramids built next to the larger ones). Otherwise, the purpose of only a few small, regional stepped pyramids remains elusive. \n\nWhile pyramids were, for the most part, tombs for the Pharaohs of Egypt, one must nevertheless question the reason that Egyptian rulers chose this particular shape, and for that matter, why they built them so large. Today, we believe that they chose the shape in order to mimic the Benben, a pyramid shaped stone found in the earliest of temples, which itself is thought to symbolize the primeval mound from which the Egyptians believed life emerged. This also connected the pyramid to Re, the Sun God, as it was he, according to some of the ancient Egypt mythology, who rose from the primeval mound to create life. \n\nAs far the great size of many of the pyramids in Egypt, we can really only surmise that the Pharaohs were making a statement about their own power and perhaps, about the glory and strength of their country. However, it should also be remembered that many of the latter pyramids were not nearly as large as the Great Pyramids at Giza (and elsewhere).\n\nPyramids evolved. The first of them was not a perfectly formed pyramid. In fact, the first Pyramid we believe that was built in Egypt, that of Djoser, was not a true pyramid at all with smooth sides and a point at the top. Rather, its sides were stepped, and the top of the pyramid truncated with a flat surface (as best we know). As the Egyptian pyramids evolved, there wer
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The Enochians are listed as the source of the All,  Based on the Planets and their movement.  God has no problem with the stars and their movents.  They were given to those bright enought to accept and understand them.
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Wonder Date Builder Destroyed Cause \nGreat Pyramid of Giza 2550 BC Egyptians still standing still standing \nHanging Gardens of Babylon 600 BC Babylonians after 1st century BC earthquake \nTemple of Artemis at Ephesus 550 BC Lydians, Greeks 356 BC fire \nStatue of Zeus at Olympia 435 BC Greeks 5th-6th centuries AD fire \nMausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus 351 BC Persians, Greeks by 1494 AD earthquake \nColossus of Rhodes 292-280 BC Hellenistic Greece 224 BC earthquake \nLighthouse of Alexandria
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Pyramids.  Need I say more?  :o)\n\nSeriously, they did a lot of building.\n\nSue
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Ezekiel is describing something that looks very much like the copper "Sea" of Solomon that was in the first Temple. Look it up in Kings, and you will see the similarities.\n\nIt is not connected to UFOs. Sorry.
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There are massive amounts of evidence to support the contention that extraterrestrials have been visiting earth for thousands of years, and have greatly influenced humanity's religious history.  I suggest you read a book called "the 12th Planet" by Zacharia Stitchin.  He is a biblical scholar and ancient languages expert.  The first 80 pages or so of the book are very dry, but if you can get through that, it will amaze you!  Most of the stories from the first 5 books of the Bible were actually taken from much older stories, which can be directly linked to the ancient Sumerian culture, 6000 years ago.  The stories of Adam and Eve and the Great Flood are both taken directly from Sumerian stories, for example.  The Hebrews literally just changed the names of the Sumerian gods to Yahweh, and changed the names of the humans involved.  Anyway, a HUGE amount of evidence exists that these "gods" were really just extraterrestrials.  There are descriptions of them flying around in aircraft and spacecraft, of them having battles with advanced weapontry, etc.\n     For those who think this sounds crazy, ask youself this:  How did the ancient Sumerians know about the planets Neptune, Uranus and Pluto 6000 years ago, when these planets cannot be seen without high-powered telescopes, and we only discovered them within the last 200 years?  It would be literally impossible for them to have this knowledge, but they had it nonetheless.  They said that their gods told them all about these planets.  They also believed that their gods were from a red planet that was on a huge elipical orbit around our sun.  That sounded crazy to historians and ancient language experts, until NASA found that planet last year.  It will be back in our neighborhood in about 1000 years or so.\n    So, if the ancient Sumerians' gods were aliens, and the stories about the Hebrew's god are just plagerized from the Sumerians, then what does that mean for your belief about god today?  \n   These are just a few small examples of evidence for extraterrestrials visiting Earth in ancient times.  There are many many other books on this topic, and each is filled with historical evidence.  Some other books include Fingerprints of the Gods, Chariots of the Gods, and the Gods of Eden.\nMost people would rather hear a comforting lie than a harsh truth.  Are you like most people?  Or are you going to do the research and come to your own conclusions?
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Anything's possible. It has been theorized that humans were the slaves of an alien race and left to populate the earth. Plenty use Egyptian mythology to base their answer, and actually do so quite effectively. So sure, why not?
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Stars tell the age of the pyramids, researcher says ...\n\nBALTIMORE (AP) -- Just how old are the pyramids? The answer may lie in the stars. \n\nCurrent estimates for the construction of the pyramids, based on surviving lists of the pharaohs, are believed to be accurate to within about 100 years. \n\nBut Cambridge University Egyptologist Kate Spence said that by analyzing the relative position of Earth and two stars, she has dated the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza -- one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World -- to within five years of 2478 B.C. \n\n\n\nThe sky in ancient Egypt: Builders may have used the vertical alignment of two bright stars to align the pyramids north-south.\n\nThat means the Great Pyramid is 4,478 years old -- or 75 years older than one commonly accepted estimate. \n\nSpence's estimate comes from her proposed solution to another mystery: How did the ancient Egyptians align their pyramids so that two sides ran so precisely north-south? She suggests that they used a pair of stars found in the Little and Big Dippers. \n\nBut because Earth wobbles on its axis, those two stars would have given different indications for "north'' over the centuries. So by calculating when that pair of stars would have been in a northern alignment, Spence said she can figure out when the pyramids were built. \n\nIn Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, Spence said the two-star method could explain the various degrees of inaccuracy in the orientation of pyramids built at different times. \n\nToday's North Star, or Polaris, was in the wrong position in those days to help the pyramid builders. Spence instead employs the stars Mizar, found in the Big Dipper's handle, and Kochab, in the bowl of the Little Dipper. \n\nWhen the pyramids were built, these stars circled nightly around a point over the North Pole. So, when one star appeared directly over the other, the Egyptians could have used a plumb line to find north, Spence said. \n\nIt's not clear whether the Egyptians really did that, but "the technique she argues for seems very reasonable'' and deserves further study, said Edwin Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. The paper could provide "several pieces of a very intriguing puzzle.'' \n\nThe ancient Egyptians aligned their pyramids and temples to the north because they believed their pharaohs became stars in the northern sky after they died. Aligning the pyramids, in which the pharaohs were buried, was believed to give the deceased direct access to the northern sky. \n\nBetsy Bryan, a professor of Egyptology and the chairwoman of the department of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said Spence's method seems reasonable, and if it proves to be correct, will further refine the timetable of ancient Egypt. \n\n"That's important because there have been arguments made that the pyramids and the Sphinx were built thousands and thousands of years earlier than that,'' Bryan said. "This is yet another piece of evidence that our view that these are monuments that belong to the middle of the third millennium is right.''
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The techniques used to construct Egypt's pyramids are thought to have initially been developed by trial and error and then further evolved based on local economics, resources, and other considerations, over the thousand year pyramid-building phase of Egyptian civilization.\n\nRecently-discovered worker's tombs have shown how pyramids were made and how important workers were: the pyramid workers were paid craftsmen, not slaves, and they had their own city at Giza. Egyptologists also have presented several pieces of evidence showing this, including proof that many laborers worked on the Pyramids during periods of Nile flooding, and that contributing to the Pyramid construction was, religiously, a very good deed for them.\n\nDuring the earliest period, in the Third and Fourth Dynasties, pyramids were constructed wholly of stone. In the Fifth Dynasty the physical scale of pyramids was much reduced, and poor quality limestone replaced granite as the chief building material. In–filling with loose rubble was also used for the first time. This enabled pyramids to be built with fewer resources over much shorter periods.\n\nDuring the Middle Kingdom pyramid construction techniques changed again. Most pyramids built at this time were little more than mountains of mud brick encased in a veneer of polished limestone. In several cases, later pyramids were built on top of natural hills to further reduce the volume of material needed in their construction.\n\nParadoxically, the materials and methods of construction used in the earliest pyramids have ensured their survival in a generally much better state of preservation than is the case with the pyramid monuments of later pharaohs.
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SETI the first was an Egyptian pharaoh
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IIRC, the current "best guess" of archaeologists and engineers is something like 20-30 years for the Great Pyramid.
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Now there are basically two schools of thoughts concerning the origin, age, and the builder of the Sphinx in Egypt. The established group are Egyptologists who believe that Pharaoh Khafre built the Sphinx around 2500 B.C., which is about the 4th dynasty. This theory makes the Sphinx about 5,000 years old according to Dr. Zahi Hawass, Director of Giza Saqqara of the Egyptian Antiquities Organization (p. 348) as stated in Graham Hancock’s book Fingerprints of the Gods (© 1995 Crown Trade Paperbacks).\n\nNow the other school of thought does not believe that the Egyptians built the Sphinx, but think that it was built by an advanced civilization 8,000 to 10,000 B.C. This school of thought has been around for hundreds of years, but new findings give it more credibility. Recently, Graham Hancock, John West, an American scholar, Robert Bauval, and others have presented certain evidence that challenges the traditional thoughts about the Sphinx and the whole Giza complex.
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There is no concrete proof.  It may be that the Egyptians deified a wise individual, because they did deify a certain Imhotep, the architect of the Great Pyramids (we have records of him), but that is sheer speculation.  Most Egyptian gods were based on the forces of nature, and Thoth was originally the moon god.
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Great Pyramid of Giza 2550 BC Egyptians still standing still standing \nHanging Gardens of Babylon 600 BC Babylonians   destroied after  1st century BC earthquake \nTemple of Artemis at Ephesus 550 BC Lydians, Greeks 356 BC fire \nStatue of Zeus at Olympia 435 BC Greeks  destroied 5th-6th centuries AD fire \nMausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus 351 BC Persians, Greeks by 1494 AD earthquake \nColossus of Rhodes 292-280 BC Hellenistic Greece 224 BC earthquake \nLighthouse of Alexandria 3rd century BC Hellenistic Egypt 1303-1480 AD earthquake
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They used the same technology the egyptians used to build the pyramids.  Except they used wood, instead of stone.
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The first evolved idea of religion was during the Sumerians time, when the cities of Ur & Uruk were founded, circa 2000BC, and was Nephilim worship. Basically a group of messengers came to Earth and bred homo sapiens as workers. After several thousand years, several Nephilim felt enslaving us was wrong, and started to impart their knowledge to us. There was a civil war among the Nephilim regarding the future of mankind. This led to the biblical flood of 4000BC, in which almost all human life was lost, though finally the benevolent Nephilim won and through a fe,ale Nephilim, the human race was created, leading to the view that we are all Gods children, and the opinion that we all contain a small essence of the Divine. They taught us the wisdom of how to grow crops, religion, philosophy etc. This info was largely lost with the rise of the Persians, Babylonians and led to the forgotten knowledge scenario.\nUruk has been found and its great zigarat (pyramid) remains unexcavated approx 150miles NW of Basra, Iraq, currently occupied by UK troops.