Hi Katherine ...
As always an excellent reasoned response however sometimes due to time and circumstances the archaeolgical record has been wiped clean and we must simply look at the artifacts left behind to make a determination of what occurred, how they were made abd why. It is at this point I feel Egyptologists fail. They seem unable or unwilling to speculate beyond the same old, same old.
Example: Giza can not be all pre-planned because no plan has been found. In my opinion this is an incorrect argument. Failing to find a papyrius and even one contemporay source of writing or imagery of said pyramids I should think all speculation is tenealbe if it fits the measureable facts. To claim co-incidencde time after time is what gives Egyptologists their bad name and actually rightly deserved in my opinion. +
With respect
Don Barone
"There is nothing as impenetrable as a closed mind"
and ..." if everything is a coincidence what is the point of studying or measuring or analyzing anything ?" db