Jammer Wrote:
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> CK
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> Excellent opportunity for a very important point;
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> what if you HAD stayed there 9 hours a day 7 days
> a week, 6 days off a month, for those 40 years?
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> Would you expect the hole to be finished yet>
> It would have been done and polished 10 years back
> or better.
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> Jammer


Sure. I could have finished in a few weeks of eight hour days.

And it wouldn't have taken the Egyptians much longer with primitive tools. The farther back in time you go the less time people had for things that weren't directly related to food production and distribution. Today we have lots of surplus labor but this was simply not true in the distant past.

Before I'm told that building the king's tomb was directly related to all Egyptian activity just let me say that any time spent on these would still be deducted from the total amount of energy and effort available. Surely the large boxes described in the original post weren't related to burials and if they were there was still no need for the perfection.

I'm hardly an expert on stone working (as evidenced by the birdbath), but to my mind the author does raise some seemingly good points that don't seem to have been refuted. This isn't to say I believe they had any high tech equipment; at least not of the sort we'd recognize as high tech, but they must have used means which we've yet to identify. This seems to apply to many of their artefacts.

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.