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Living With Presence — By Folu's avatar

What’s striking is not just what we’ve learned about the Great Pyramid, but how much remains unresolved. It feels like a reminder that ancient civilizations were far more sophisticated than we often assume, and that humility is still required when interpreting the past.

Ravi Sadana's avatar

I have said it before and now say it again. To speculate why the Pharaohs and their priests did what they did, we have to know what their mindset was AT THAT TIME. We don't have any idea as this involves complex psychology, biology and sociology etc. Science is limited for a lack of written records, and some of the theories are like the outcome of a monkey striking keys on a type writer! So I suggest science should model basic conditions prevailing at that time and contemplate.

Copper chisels cannot cut hard granite. Granite is 300 miles away. Smallest block is 50 tons. Pyramids are huge. Their design, geometry and alignment requires observation from space. One thing we do know is that Egyptian priests of the inner sanctum had esoteric knowledge. Science thinks they have all the knowledge and tools to investigate any unknown entity like prehistoric Egypt. Sorry, they don't. There are other forms of knowledge that go beyond what science knows. Science will never acknowledge that. And that is problem UNO! Science doesn't have a mind, only physical tools. Special problems require special tools. And, lastly, tools may be extra-physical. Just examine some of the accounts described in old literature and stonework done in Peru, as if Rocks are a pliable glazed putty with rounded corners.

Webe1's avatar

Weren’t the sphinx originally constructed as lions? Another idea is that when mankind becomes too sophisticated, the civilization is forced back to constantly reinvent the wheel (so to speak). Interesting article.

A.J. Foster's avatar

I read years ago that the agrarian civilization who were in the Sahara were forced East by the drought that was forming the desert were the ones who were assimilated essentially built what we now see as Egypt. It is no secret that anything that might rock the boat of the present Egyptian Religion will not be open to to discovery