cladking Wrote:
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> Hans Wrote:
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> > John Greaves (1602-1652), professor of
> astronomy
> > at the University of Oxford, first reviewed the
> > existing literature and then went to Egypt to
> > study the pyramids for himself. He dismissed
> all
> > the accounts of the Giza pyramids having been
> > built by biblical figures or legendary kings.
> From
> > the classical sources, it was he who concluded
> > that these monuments were erected by Cheops
> > (Khufu), Chephren (Khafre) and Mycerinus
> > (Menkaure), as tombs for the security of the
> body
> > because of an ancient Egyptian conviction that
> > this would ensure the endurance of the soul.
> >
> >
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> I've read Graeves and am aware he implied these
> were tombs.
Then you didn't read Graeves yet another example of your selective 'seeing' of data
It's not my contention that it was
> never before 1830 postulated or believed they were
> tombs, it is my contention that it was not
> considered axiomatic by scholars.
Graeves is a scholar. If you believe they thought it was something else then it is up to you to provide the evidence it was. Due to Christian influence 'grain storage' was popular but even a modicum of knowledge of the set up of sites makes them utterly unsuitable (and a vast waste of effort) as they have less than 1% of the volume that could be useable.
Your opinion are not and have never been facts.