Don Barone Wrote:
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> 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. +
Yes, absense of evidence is not evidence of absence. But we must also think it through.
Yes, there's no evidence of a plan at Giza. It could have been a papyrus, or a little wooden model, things which are highly perishable. If they were entombed with the ardhitect, it's possible that they are still in an undiscovered place. It would clear up many things if that were the case. But I suspect all we'd ever find is the plan for the particular pyramid the architect was assigned.
We also have no evidence of an AE moon base, and somehow I don't think we're going to ever find one.