How were the pyramids built

[Hellmund]

Well we know the egyptians build the dam things but where did they get the math from.
They didn't have pythagoras back then

[narayan]

The technology the Ancient Egyptians had is amazing. To this day, building structures like the pyramids would be nearly impossible, even with current technology and machinery. Maybe aliens helped 'em. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[ArcAngel]

the pyramids were a work of aliens, with far greater knowledge than us. Aliens leave us alone because we are no match for they're armies, they laugh at out existence but let us live to try and surpass their inteligence...LOL

[Paul V]

Yes, but the Egyptians were well ahead of the ancient greeks in math and scientific knowledge. But it is the greeks, not the egyptians, who influenced western thought and thus you only hear of them.

[Sam2001]

Fascinating fact those pyramids. Even with modern technology scientists today are still 'guessing' the way how egyptians builded those huge things.

[narayan]

There are little "tunnels" about 4" * 5" that go from the queen's chamber (or something like that) to the surface that are nearly perfecly straight, they have excaped the ravages of time. Scientists used a small mobile rover to travel through one of these and actually found a little trap door at the end of one of these!

[U-96]

you might like these links - none of that alien bs! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
http://www.aloha.net/~hawmtn/pyramid.htm http://www.klatu.com/lix/index.html

U-96

[Hellmund]

I tend to agree with Paul V.
Maybe they were quite the quiet achiever.
None of the ancient egyptians exist to ask how anymore.
MAybe it's like Atlantis.
People believe that they had superior technologys but it was lost to the great depths.
The egyptians works were lost to erosion,sand storm and time.
Back in those times they must have made a lot of great discovies in architecture and mathematics.Too bad someone didn't sign their name on their work.
It would at least dispel the Alien BS
Hellmund

[welsh wizard]

theres a lot about the past that would be great to have a time machine just to go back and find out how they did it, whats really amasing is that the time span when these were biult, the people who biult them, were into marry brother and sister, ( normal result of inbreeding is eventual disaster) also it was not just Egypt, South America, Mexico, even in India and Africa biuldings were put up that even today we would be hard pushed to match, also what about stone henge, the kelts who found or took over Briton were little more than primative, stone axes, and animal skins for cloths, yet those before them moved Stones from South Wales to Salisbury Plains,
Maybe Daniel Jackson is right and they had outside help http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif
WW

[hd581]

One thing for sure: If we ever come up with space travel, we need to make sure we go to another planet and build a whole bunch of seemingly impossible structures to create mysteries for years to come. Then we should come back intermittently but only visit low-IQ farmers and abduct them instead of making contact w/ scientists who could vouch for our validity.

[DESTINO09]

Hellmund
Pythagoras is a man who has been regarded as a great mathematician with his formula but what hasn't been spoke of much is that there are some ancient lit. that actually speaks of a man named pythagoras who went to egypt and studied among the "proffesors" of the time so his theories may simply be his memorization of an ancient egyption theory. One thing for sure people have never given info away freely to outsiders traditionally so just imagine what they didn't tell him.

[DESTINO09]

Also a reason why egyptitions may get a rep of not creating the pyrimads and aliens being the creators instead is because they werer craeted by African men. I also have a wierd theory where as these pyramids are the actual site of the tower of babel. as well all the other pyramids around the world are great in there own right but if memory serves me correct the egyptions stop building that type of pyramid thousands of year before any of the others were erected.

[socalgal]

Would aliens build a less than perfect pyramid? Isn't the second pyramid at Giza "bent" because the Egyptians had some calculation error(s)?

I'm planning on hitting this Exhibit soon.. I'm a newbie at Egyptology, but it's some fascinating stuff! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Hit the "Pharoahs of the Sun" link on the right.
http://www.lacma.org/lacma.htm

[smurfin]

Well,it's really late and my wife is sick, so i am up keeping an eye on her. Really tired, but let me get a go of it. Forgive me if i ramble. About 10 years ago, I came upon a dam in the middle of nowhere. It was about a hundred and twenty years old. Amazed, I asked a friend in the area, he matter of factly told me that it used to power some type of mill. The stones were huge! I though how amazing that they could do that so long ago. Then when thinking, it occurred to me, they had tools capable of doing thusly even further back than that(do we forget castles?). I had fallen into the trap of thinking that my generation was given to great thought and ideas, forgetting that every generation past has had the same minds. Do we think that people were stupid and running about in loin cloths 4,000 years ago? Of course they didn't. The sphinx is at least 2,000 years older than the pyramids, making it a rather amazing feat of engineering, but do we even think twice. Or how about concret ports in the mediteranean, built with tolerances and strengths equal to todays work. We had thought that curing concrete underwater was a technology that the modern man had dibs on. We were wrong, here are posts 3,000 years old mixed and poured into the ocean to cure there. Do we forget the romans who's works still exist and work today? I don't know about you, but I don't for a second expect my local city and water works department to build anything that will even last a decade(lazy)let alone a couple of millenium under heavy traffic.Every generation has their businessmen, their causes and fights, their crooked politicians, their buildings and projects. We fall into the trap of feeling superior, forgetting that there are many ways of doing things, and many might even be superior to our ways of doing things. But these have been lost to the tides of time. Anybody want to take a wild guess what people will say in a couple of thousand years when they come upon the hoover dam or something else equally impressive? They will scratch thier heads most likely and wonder how such a primitive era managed such a feat! Leave the discussions of alien involvement to the children where it belongs, if there are other species, I would think they had better things to do than work in stone. Let's give credit where it is due, to the minds of man, past and present. a toast to you ancient man, hiding the cranes was a very cool gag.

[medo]

Hello,

I am sorry, but I can't find anything mystical in the way they built old pyramids.
In those days all people had to do work for their pharaohs out off the agriculture season (some of them (more skillful) earned salary). Those pyramids are great but they have been built by thousands of workers and their life wasn't so important. To build a structure like this you have to have basic mathematics skills and they had that already, because of well developed irrigation systems. To involve some aliens in, just because of monumental look is totally unnecessary.


Medo

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[Clareka]

Did you get my query on how to contact you please?

[socalgal]

Clareka, yes I did and I replied via email. Did you not get my email?

Please email me again if you're still having problems, don't post in other threads http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Your moved thread is here http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum2/HTML/006558.html and after you hit this link, hit Post Reply.

[krusty the klown]

My guess is that the pyramids were built slowly.


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[Hopeful]

Answer is in the Bible!
REALLY!