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Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried
brian0918 writes "Times Online is reporting that French and American researchers have discovered that the stones on the higher levels of the great pyramids of Egypt were built with concrete. From the article: 'Until recently it was hard for geologists to distinguish between natural limestone and the kind that would have been made by reconstituting liquefied lime.' They found 'traces of a rapid chemical reaction which did not allow natural crystallization. The reaction would be inexplicable if the stones were quarried, but perfectly comprehensible if one accepts that they were cast like concrete.'"
"They found traces of a rapid chemical reaction which did not allow natural crystallization. "
That is what I call concrete evidence!
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
wouldn't the aliens have just created them out of random molecules in the air using some sort of crazy technology?
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How are we supposed to believe that an advanced alien race would still be using something so mundane as concrete?
The pyramids weren't built. They *landed*.
They told those history shows that they lugged those stones up ramps and whatnot!
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In an era before the invention of the wheel, it wouldn't have been any easier to drag a 20-ton concrete mixer truck chassis up the pyramid than to just drag up a 20-ton block of stone.
I can only imagine archeologist's reactions when our society is kaput.
"The Americans had slaves that carried concrete slabs to form long unending structures. We also have evidence that these were called "free-ways". We think these "free-ways" were in worship to some sort of God and the metal heaps on these "free-ways" offerings for this God."
Yes. It goes like this:
Bird's eye bird's eye, dancing guy, two chicks looking at each other, bird's eye, chicks again, that dog faced god looking to the heavens, some women throwing wheat into the air, guys picking ground, bird's eye, god of something, mound of cement.
There you go!
...the archaeologists were trying to cement their relationship with the aliens, who were stealing all the limelight.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
I have a lot of trouble believing these findings. It's well known that the ancient Egyptians were a very 'slow on the uptake' sort of people. This is reasonably apparent with their crazy style of writing. The Egyptians had some notion that rhyming appeased the gods or something to that effect. So naturally all their writings rhymed. Take this classic example: 'Man with a snake, boat on a lake. Bird in the sky, weird curly eye'. If you could say the Egyptians contributed ANYTHING to modern society that would have to be rhyming. Before the Egyptians came along no society had developed an actual working rhyming system. The ancient Greeks came closest. Homer's Odyssey was the closest the Greeks ever came to an actual rhyming system, though, in its native Latin the Odyssey will cause a sane man to go mad.
One might wonder what this has to do with the ancient Egyptians capacity to mix concrete. Well it has a LOT to do with it. You have to remember the ancient Egyptians were very keen on rhyming. The entire mummification process rhymed, as well as all the names of all the pharaohs. So it's only logical that all their building materials should rhyme as well. Concrete doesn't rhyme with anything. Therefore the ancient Egyptians didn't use it.
This if you will, is the cornerstone of Egyptology.
I don't own a snook, and if I did I wouldn't leave it cocked.
SAND? In Egypt? Oh, bullshit!
You kids today with your sprirographs and your silly theories...
They killed an evil space-alien named Jesus who still threatens this planet.
That, and running water.
Man, you really need that seminar!
If they used concrete, they wouldn't have needed all the slaves. The head guy would have given the contract to his brother-in-law, who then got 40 of his friends (who take turns taking breaks) to do all the concrete work. Budget for a "refresh" every 10 years or so due to cracks. See...couldn't have happened.
My theory is that the ancient Egyptians revered the cat for a reason. Ever try to get cat poo off anything? There's your mysterious mortar right there.
... The idiots are ALREADY more creative.
So... yesterday?
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