cladking Wrote:
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> I'm certainly reminded by the rest of the article
> by the declassified document that says in three
> places that there was water spouting up;
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archive.org]
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This is from the collection of CIA declassified documents - [
www.cia.gov]. I believe it has come up before, although I can't locate it at the moment. (The first page refers gloomily to the November pre-Thanksgiving murky weather, and the "general malaise" in the office: which is possibly one of the most accurate statements in the whole document ... )
At any rate: I might be going over old ground when I point out the inaccuracies in para. 2, pg. 1 (archaeologists finding "colourful hieroglyphics" in "unknown chambers", together with "gold and jewel encrusted jewellery" [sic] ... shame Howard Vyse forgot to mention them; perhaps he sneaked them off, and they're still hidden away somewhere at Stoke Park ...)
Para. 3: a structure of "hugh" [sic] dimensions, with "pictures of animals, designs and faces on the wall": noted as a supposed reference to the "voluminous and colourful hieroglyphics" [sic] on the walls of the GP."
And then the reference to the "spouting water" ... etc. etc. etc.
> It might be very telling that there are no
> depictions of Egyptians dragging stones up ramps.
There's a reference to an NK stone ramp here (p. 152) - [
iiccairo.esteri.it]
And a stone ramp leading to a temple depicted here [
babel.hathitrust.org] (taken from Pl. XXXVIII, "Part of an Architect's Plan drawn on a Writing-Board from Thebes" - "An Architects Plan from Thebes" - N. de Garis Davies, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 4, No. 2/3 (Apr. - Jul., 1917), pp. 194-199).
> That very large stones were used to save a little
> bit of work in the quarry suggests a highly robust
> means of lifting them it would be very difficult
> to make a drawing of men pulling them up the side
> or the usage of counterweights to pull the stones
> up.
They would simply NOT have saved a little
> work in the quarry and then created a great deal
> of very onerous work getting the stones around
> corners on ramps. With so much effort required to
> lift these stones by any means at all they would
> bnot have used a highly imefficient means.
>
> Colavito couldn't be more wrong than to suggest
> that how they built pyramids is not only no
> mystery but is well attested.
Not sure many people will agree with this.
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