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[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The thing is, its not about a single rock being precise. Its a 2 million ton monument that we are told is a tomb that was built in like 20 years. Thats about 1.7 million pounds per day, every day. It would take our trucks a fucking insane amount of time just dragging it into position, how did they have the time to cut it as well? For a tomb??? Somehow I feel we are not being told the whole story here...

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, it's totally about a single rock being precise. That's the name of the game son. If you don't get the first stone precise, you can't get the second one in precise. And there's loads of different ways to move stone without trucks. I work in a conservation setting, and we use modern machinery as little as possible. If these scholars would bother asking anyone with actual experience in the field they'd get some answers to their questions.

Also what's with the Ancient Aliens bs at the end there?

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its a tomb that was built in 20 years by some guy? Its not ancient aliens, but i have a feeling that the pyramid had a use, not just as some big building. Don't have to agree, but keep an open mind when looking at it

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Somehow I feel we are not being told the whole story here...

This shit.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well, honestly i have no idea, just seems crazy for everyone to be like "we know what it was used for because some guy in the 1800s said so"

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or maybe the mummified remains that were found inside might have been an good indication?

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The great pyramid is "assumed" to have had a mummy by people in like 900ad no mummies, just more mysteries. Why is the only mummies we find in the three pyramids from a woman, and a man from 2000 years after they were built? The evidence for the royal tomb hypothesis is surpisingly thin. If you think about what we actually see when we look at the pyramids, they are feats of engineering on the scales of which were not seen again until the 1800s. It is insane to me that we think we have any idea how or why the pyramids came to be based on the very minimal amount of evidence we do have on their construction. Not to mention the mysteries of some of the design choices i.e. menkaure casing stones