How do you honestly think the Egyptian pyramids were created?
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I see a whole lot of people parroting what they've read and seen on TV, but here's an new and original thought for you...What if the blocks weren't pushed, pulled, levitated or moved into position at all?  What if they were "poured" into place as a sort of cement?  Think about it...They would've easily done it level by level, filling any smaller gaps with smaller blocks....\nAnyway, that's the only thing that really makes any sense to me.\nPulleys and levers, ramps..All that stuff has basically been disprove...If they were constructed in either one of those manners, then why can't we reproduce the great Pyramid using the same technology?....We should have pyramids all over the place!!!\nI like my cement theory!
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Excellent question. I have often thought about this before. They say that Egyptians never came to the new world but I don't buy it. Pyramids, heiroglyphs, burials, tombs And they way they looked. Too much to be coincidence. National geographic has a special called the curse of the cocaine mummies. They found the coca plant in Egyptian mummies which proves that they had trade.
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Which pyramid at Cairo are you referring to? Where abouts on the pyramid?\n\nAre you referring to the hieroglyphs? Hieroglyphs adorn most ancient buildings and tombs (Valley of the Kings, Karnak, Abu Simbel, etc.).
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The latest in graphix design is called "The Egyptian Technology". Computer researchers are now exploring the depts of the pyramids to find out how the pharoah and his people came up with the 3-D option of making pyramids. However the martian government has now offended the researchers in this regard. The martians claimed that the pharoahs how are now in mars have opposed to the research because of the fact that it involves opening of the graves. The pharoahs believe that once the tombs are opened then they have to come back. They quite like the life in mars better than the life here in earth. Hence, the researchers have now takent he matter to the highest authority on earth, that is the UNO. The UN supreme court will now have to solve a dispute between the martians and the humans..\n\n\n---x--\nto answer your question - WHAT IS YOUR QUESTION!
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If you read the current archeological literature, you will read many contradictions. For one, they tell you that pyramids are essentially tombs for pharaohs, when in reality, not one mummy was found in the Great Pyramid of Giza for example. I specify that pyramid, because two chambers inside it are called the king’s and queen’s chambers and so people assume it’s because mummies were found there. Yet, archeologists stubbornly insist that they were tombs. They also INTERPRET the book of the dead as a reference by the Egyptians about the journey the dead take in the afterlife. As a result, they feel compelled to dismiss the ‘emerald tablets of thoth’ as fanciful magical verses and gibberish. Consider the fact that you don’t see many archeologists talking about the glyphs in Abydos that show glyphs resembling helicopters and flying vehicles? http://www.crystalinks.com/ancientaircraft.html \nIf you read those tablets, you will understand that the book of the dead was not about the dead at all. It was referring to something similar to out of body experiences. The Egyptians were knowledgeable in sacred geometry and spirituality. It was describing ways for one to be ‘free of the body’ and roam other dimensions freely. The book of the dead was a symbolic representation of a hidden knowledge; a decoy of sorts for the ‘real’ knowledge meant for the ‘worthy’… the emeralds of thoth. This knowledge represented the ability to travel by thought and intention alone anywhere in the universe, among other things. It holds many secrets. Some concepts reflect understandings we have today of 'quantum physics' and the nature of cause and effect (that effects precedes the cause)...etc.
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Nor inside ANY of the ancient egyptian monuments made prior to the Roman invasion in 52 B.C. The egyptians used another mechanism:Mirrors!\nYes they used a complicated system of mirrors to reflect the day light all the way inside the huge monuments they've built, which were siometimes several hundereds of feet high (like the pryamids, which aremore than 80 pyramids, the most famous of which,the biggest, but not the oldest, are the 3 giza pyramids) or far below the ground(tutemoses grave and other similarly fabulous graves in valley of the kings, or dug several meters deep inside solid granite mountains (like "Dir El Bahary" temple of hatshipsut)\nYes, as agatha christie said,they did it with mirrors :)
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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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The shape of Egyptian pyramids is thought to represent the primordial mound from which the Egyptians believed the earth was created. The shape is also thought to be representative of the descending rays of the sun, and most pyramids were faced with polished, highly reflective white limestone, in order to give them a brilliant appearance when viewed from a distance. Pyramids were often also named in ways that made reference to solar luminescence. For example, the formal name of the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur was The Southern Shining Pyramid, and that of Senwosret at el-Lahun was Senwosret is Shining.\n\nWhile it is generally agreed that pyramids were burial monuments, there is continued disagreement on the particular theological principles that might have given rise to them. One theory that has gained a degree of acceptance is that they were designed as a type of "resurrection machine";[8] the Egyptians believed the dark area of the night sky around which the stars appear to revolve was the physical gateway into the heavens, and co-incidentally, one of the narrow shafts that extends from the main burial chamber through the entire body of the Great Pyramid points directly towards the centre of this part of the sky. This suggests the pyramid may have been designed to serve as a means to magically launch the deceased pharaoh's soul directly into the abode of the gods.\n\nAll Egyptian pyramids were built, without exception, on the west bank [9] of the Nile, which as the site of the setting sun was associated with the realm of the dead in Egyptian mythology.
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Slavery has been around way before the Americas were found. Egyptians built their pyramids from slave labor. Ignorance is bliss and you are the most blissful person I've seen in a while.
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Regarding chambers beneath the Sphinx - yes, ground penetrating radar studies have revealed several anomalies, none very big, that are probably chambers. It is not clear how many of these reflect natural fissures in the limestone or how many are actual deliberate constructions. It is known that some of these chambers are of fairly recent date - the 1800s, made by explorers and/or in the course of restoration efforts. It is extraordinarily unlikely that there is either a "Chamber of Lost Records" as predicted by Edgar Cayce, nor a "machine" of Atlantean provenance associated with the Sphinx.\nIt is not entirely beyond possibility that there is an ancient chamber dating to the period of the carving/construction of the Sphinx or to later restoration efforts by Tutmose IV and later kings. Such a chamber(s) would likely be a foundation deposit - quite common for constructions of a religious nature in ancient Egypt.\n\n\nSee the following and links therein for a decent summary:\nhttp://www.catchpenny.org/chamber.html...
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A) There are 3 great pyramids at Giza. I'm supposing you mean the largest, the one for Khufu or Cheops as the Greeks called him.\n\nB) Its purpose was twofold. One, to hold in security for eternity the fleshly remains of the Pharaoh and two, to allow his spirit, or ka, to ascend to the heavens with ease and to find its way back home with equal ease.\n\nC) There are those who maintain that simply because the pyramid was unadorned, unfilled with either treasure OR mummy, that it must have had some other purpose, perhaps mystical or paranormal. Sorry. A far more likely explanation was that it was left unfinished when news came that an earlier pyramid had been successfully broken into and robbed. Khufu didn't think quite so highly of HIS final resting place after that and probably made arangements for his body and his goodies to be interred someplace a lot more secret than a 450 ft. tall 3 acre monument one can see from the moon!
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They don't.\nFamously, the pyramid at Meidum collapsed. Some say that the Bent Pyramid was being built at the time and that's why the builders switched to a safer and shallower angle during  construction.
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There are many pyramids. They are mostly made of rock; some have dirt fillings.  You need to be more specific to get a better answer.
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umm....the pyramids of giza???..they are old and not naturally formed...
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OK, you discovered that did you? The next step is for you to notice that the pyramids along the Nile are laid out to mimic the shape of the constellation Orion. I'll wait, go Google that to check. \n\nWhen you are convinced of that, then you must have two more bits of information. Your brain ready for this? \n\nLife on the Nile depended upon the annual flooding to bring life-giving water to the fields. No flooding, not much crops, starvation. Remember Pharaoh's dreams about the fat cows and the lean cows? Right. \n\nPriests need to be able to predict things for their people. It gives people reasons to support their priests. There really are not much as what you can call seasons so near the equator. One thing did show when the flood SHOULD be coming (in otherwords, when it would be raining down south in the mountains of the headwaters of the Nile) and that was when the constellation of Orion, or more properly, the brightest star in the sky (besides the sun) Sirius would rise just a few moments before the sun - the helical rising of Sirius.\n\nThere is a shaft, often called an "air shaft" that goes down the Great Pyramid at Giza, very strictly aligned. When astronomers were able to do computer modeling to take into consideration the procession of the equinoxes and the apparent wobble of the earth on its axis, they were astonished to find out that this air shaft aligned to when Sirius would rise with the Sun. \n\nSirius, as you probably have seen used as the logo for Sirius satellite radio, is called "The Dog Star." \n\nHow does that all go together? And why am I telling you this? One more thing and I will let you go look some more.\n\nLook up the Dogon people of Africa. Remember now that Egypt is on the African continent. They have a story of how they got here (earth). They claim they got here on ships with Gods from another place. That place is Sirius. The gods, they say, had fish tails - looks a lot like the great God Dagon over in the Middle East, Philistines worshipped Him - and at least one of the gods died on the journey. \n\nBut god and dog are English words. None of this is real. This is all just fancy word-play made up to confuse you. Nobody believes this. This is not a story my people tell; this is just something I tell you who read this right now. \n\nDrab as a fool, aloof as a bard!
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I don't think anybody's sure it IS a pyramid yet.\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4912040.stm\n\nHere's more information :\n\nhttp://msnbc.msn.com/id/12402157/
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There were many theories regarding relationships between Egypt and Mezoamerican cultures.  Yes, there are pyramids, but it only makes sense to worship the sun and what better way to worship than to build structures that point TOWARDS the sun?  \n\nBack in the 70s and 80s a man named Thor Heyerdal built boats out of papyrus and sailed them from Cairo to Yucatan.  He proved that they COULD have sailed to the Americas, but there never was any conclusive evidence of it.  By now, with genetic mapping, someone would have tried to link the Maya or Aztec markers to Pharaonic times.  I have not heard or seen anything to persuade me otherwise.  \n\nIt is much more likely that peoples from later than the Egyptians, with an empire based on sailing and trade, reached the Americas.  Those would be the Phoenicians.  With their origins in the far Eastern Mediterranean (present day Lebanon), a branch split off and founded the empire of Carthage in northern Africa.  They had a trading and sailing monopoly in the ancient world, and a large enough power base that the Greeks gave them a wide berth, and it wasn't until the Romans that they were subdued.  \n\nBut I digress.  Phoenician sailing vessels were rowing galleys with a large sail, similar to a Viking ship, but with several tiers of rowers.  Biremes (two rows) triremes (three tiers), all the way to quintiremes (five), were capable of carrying hundreds of troops.  They were technologically advanced enough that they could have reached the Americas.  Again, no proof.\n\nAs for Atlantis, who knows where Atlantis is.  Some say it was in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.  If that is the case, that was not very far from Egypt, or Northern Africa, but pretty durn far away from Mexico.\n\nSo to asnwer your question:  There is no conclusive evidence of any relationship between the Aztecs or Mayas and the Egyptians.  A pyramid is a fairly basic shape, pointing skyward at the "sun god".  Could simply be coincidence.