AS: "Your entire rebuttal to the fact that no plugs exist anywhere in the upper shafts is to say, "Darn the luck, not one but BOTH plugs just happened to be much closer to the exterior, but isn't it just a funny coincidence that they're both missing without a trace! The obvious conclusion is that there were no plugs left in these shafts."


Why jump to that conclusion? The casing stones most probably covered the outlets of the upper shafts, effectively 'plugging' them - if they did not, it means the sarcophagus chamber was open to the elements which would be unprecedented for a royal burial in Dyn 4 - "water, fine wind blown sand, bats, creepy crawlies of all shapes and sizes would have violated the sanctity of the sarcophagus chamber - unthinkable in an AE context."


So if you believe the top end of the shafts were not covered / 'plugged' by casing stones - they were open to the elements, that goes against what we know of AE burial practise - doesn't that bother you?


If they were covered by the casing stones, which they most probably were for obvious reasons - then the upper shafts were effectively "plugged" - which means none of the four shafts were open to the elements - so what was your argument again?



AS: "Your stellar target hypothesis fails this most basic rebuttal."



MY stellar hypothesis !!!!!! I make no such claim - do not misrepresent my position again, and the so called "basic rebuttal" that you are now desparately clinging to after all your other 'arguments' have been demolished, is nothing but a non existent problem as I have clearly demonstrated.


The credit for the star hypothesis, as you should well know by now, goes to Egyptologist Alexander Badawy who proposed it as far back as 1954. His theory was endorsed by other experienced Egyptologists, for example, Dr Edwards and Mark Lehner.

I have explained how Badawy's theory works many times here on Maat - I have also pointed out the flaws in his theory and corrected them. So far, no one has yet come up with any rational argument that invalidates his theory - so if you wanna be the fastest gun in the west and shoot down Badawy you will just have to bite the bullet and come up with real arguments.


I would love that - to have someone, anyone come up with substantive arguments that invalidate Badawy's theory - then perhaps my own original ideas for the purpose of the shafts might have a chance.

CT