Rick Baudé Wrote:

>
> For it to be an advanced civilization it would
> have to pass certain criteria. Q) Did they use
> materials that were far in advance of the
> materials science of the time? A) No, they used
> limestone that was easily obtained from a quarry
> that was practically adjacent to the pyramid. Q)
> Was there any sign of advanced production
> techniques? A) No they used hammers and chisels
> and standard rock cutting techniques to obtain the
> stone. And five thousand years later these same
> methods are used for quarrying rock and mining. Q)
> was there anything unique about the stones? A) No.
> Just ordinary limestone. Q) How did they fill in
> the gaps? A) With a mortar that was clearly a
> product of its time. Q)Did they use any exotic
> means to transport the stones? A) Nope, just
> wooden sleds that have been found abandoned in the
> quarries. Putting that altogether could the
> pyramids have been used with the existing
> technology of the time? Yes. Is there any sign of
> an advanced civilization? No, is there any sign of
> an advanced civilization anywhere else in the
> world that might have built the pyramids for the
> pyramids? No.
> >

Very logical and reasonable.

The people who make such counter-claims to such evidence do so for reasons of Egyptollery but mainly because they have been told to believe such things - and do.