Who built the pyramids?

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What you're failing to take into account, ripped, is that the religion followed in ancient Egypt held that the Pharaohs were literally gods. When they died, they ascended to take their places alongside Ra and Ptah and all those guys, and they needed their belongings and servants because apparently the Egyptian afterlife was kind of like Beverly Hills, in that one's status depended on how much stuff one had.

The Egyptians were willing to break their backs building the Pyramids for the same reason European stonemasons and laborers later literally gave their lives building those magnificent cathedrals that litter Europe today - it was a work of faith. And the chambers were decorative because their echo was supposed to be the home of the new god when he ascended.

Really, a little comparative sociology and study of religions could have given you that answer long ago...

The Conspiricist's Rule of Biased Confirmation will not allow for any of that, Deac.

It's lovely how everything built in the ancient can be dismissed as a tomb. How enlightened of us.

I'm reminded of the Motel of Mysteries.

http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~fisher/hst140/MotelOfMysteries.html

So you offer a bit of sophomoric science-fiction as evidence?

Thankyou for your thoughts.
So the Pharaohs made these 'tombs', but then forgot to get buried in them?
Oh, and they forgot to put a single prayer on their walls.
And even the internal architecture was devoid of any ornamentation.
The internal passages unfit for any religious procession, all being access ways where any person would have to stoop to kneeling.
The entire internals of the Great pyramid being austere to the point of industrial functionality, yet within a 'tomb' of the greatest proportions ever seen.
Khufu didn't even bother putting his name in there.
I will accept your disbelief of the obvious, and belief of the unlikely, but it would be negligent of me to avoid discussion of the case I came to further.

For the sake of argument, would you be willing to temporarily suspend your disbelief in order to further this discussion to the subject of potential uses of these edifices other than that of merely tombs?

Wow ...

I think he's quoting either McCain or Romney ...

And you cant answer a single point raised in that post.

"Forgot to get buried in them"? Who, pray tell, does occupy those royal sarcophagi, then?

And where did all the images, photos, and rubbings of elaborate imagery from the inside of the tombs originate, if the walls are "devoid of any ornamentation"?

I'm beginning to wonder if you're confusing the Great Pyramid of Cheops with the Luxor Grand Hotel in Las Vegas...

Some people just can't accept that the Egyptians built the pyrimds so immediately think: Aliens

In the Great Pyramid? What sarcophagus?

That is the opinion of the archeologists. Given the belief system of the ancient Egyptians. the Great Pyramid was a device for sending of Pharo Kufu to the Next World to assume his truly god-like function. Think of it as a stone age beam-up device.

Beam me up Setti!

ruveyn

Why answer dumb irrelevent points?

There is a structure even taller than the great Pyramid at Giza in the USA named after George Washington, and its located in a city named after George Washington. Its built (oddly enough) in the style of ancient Egyptian Obelisk, and its called "the Washington Monument".

But George Washington is not actually buried in the "Washington Monument". But that doesnt mean that it isnt a monument to george washington.

There is a seperate place called "the tomb of george washington"- which is a grand chamber located two floors beneath the Capitol Rotunda in the Capitol building - built to display the man's actual tomb.

But guess what!

George Washington is NOT buiied there either.

He was buried according to his will in a grave at Mr. Vernon.

Five thousand years from now someone might come along and claim that "George Washington is not buried in the washington momunment, nor his even buried in his own tomb in the capitol building, so therefore he must have been a mythical character like King Arthur who never even existed. And that the so called Washington monument was never built as a monument to him but was really a retired space rocket."

By the time they were working on the great pyramid at Giza the Egyptians had already been building pyramids for two centuries. By that time they may have noticed that precisely because pyramids are so conspicuous -they attract theives.

So they may well have changed plans and had the decessed king and his grave goods moved to an undisclosed location- some modest hidden crypt in the desert to avoid theft. But that didnt stop them from building the pyramid as a monument to the god king. So whether the guy is actually buried there or not is irrelevent. It might still be monument built to a king that was built in the style of tomb. The pyramid craze was part of the whole religous-politicl creed of the time. But there are any number of reasons the actual king may not have ended up buried in the place.

But lest go with this idea that (a) humans built it and not aliens, BUT (b) it had nothing to do with being a monument to the Pharoahs.

Then what was the pyramid for?

The film implies-without actually stating- that the pyramids were oversized batteries that interact with the ground water to produce electicity. And that this is not an accidental by product of the archetecture but what they were designed to do.

So the film implies, but doesnt actually state, the pyramids were the equivalent of modern day power stations.

So..every peasant in old kingdom bronze age egypt could watch the superbowl on their widescreen TVs! And this is because they were all on a powergrid. And this powergrid was somehow hooked up to the three great pyramids at Giza because the pyramdis were the source of the electricity.

So where are all of the buired remains of these widescreen tv sets?
Where is the evidence for this power grid?

I don't think there are only three options.

I personally wonder if the great pyramid wasn't built as some sort of reaction to the inexorable flooding after the last glacial age. Seems like something really high would be very appealling in that kind of situation.

That would explain why it was one of the first pyramids ever built. What other type of architecture began with its biggest example? It would also explain the much older date ascribed to the pyramids by the people who refer to the orion alignment. It would also explain why the only "sarcophagus" found in the great pyramid looks as out of place as a cardboard spoiler on a Japanese street car.

It would NOT explain the lack of pottery and such found nearby dating back to that older date. Nor would it explain why the king's chamber air shafts seem to align well with stars around 2500 BC.

Facts that could go either way are that work was rather obviously done on the mortar and such around 2500 BC, and that glyphs are present suggesting something around that time period. Just because they redid the Statue of Liberty exterior in the 80's doesn't mean it isn't older. Same for the pottery and boats and buildings and such in the vicinity from that era.

I do think it makes a hell of a lot of sense that most of the limestone blocks were poured in place rather than than being carried whole to the location. I believe the same technique would work fine on the "sarcophagus" as well, so no need for it to have been present all along.

I doubt aliens were involved because I see no evidence of that whatsoever. Nothing about the pyramids seems impossible or even unlikely given the construction techniques we know were available at the time.

But there might be other explanations altogether. Maybe a way to keep a standing army busy, or something, and demonstrate its discipline and strength to other nations. Maybe a way to impress a chick. Maybe an attempt at a perpetual motion machine. Who knows.

What pyramids are we talking about. last week i made the very great pyramid of bacon. Andi know I made that. Now do i know who made the pyramids all over the world? Specificaly no, but i can take a guess by what cultures lived there

This thread is mostly about the 3 great pyramids at Giza in Egypt.

Kufu's Pyramid was the tallest man made structure in the world until the Eifel Tower was built. That is about 4000 years.

ruveyn