January 15, 2007 08:01AM
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Kanga Wrote:
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> I think the following quote from Wikipedia is off
> the mark:
>
Quote
yramidology is a term (apparently coined
> by Martin Gardner[1]) to refer to various
> pseudoscientific speculations regarding pyramids.
>
>
> Pyramidology to me means the study of pyramids,
> and I would class Lehner, Verner, Aldred and
> Hawass as pyramidologists. I think the term the
> author meant to use was "pyramidiocy". I do not
> know who fashioned the term "pyramidiot", but I
> know it was used by Leonard Cottrell in Mountains
> of Pharaoh. Even Cottrell would be termed a
> "pyramidologist".
>
No, the correct phrase is "Egyptology". "Pyramidology" is the artificial, flawed focus on one specific aspect of Egyptian history, and often just one structure from Egyptian history, frequently to the exclusion of all others.
I suppose we also have "sphinxology" as another branch of pseudoscience.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.
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