December 18, 2007 01:52PM
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Naturally, the idea of coordinating these three completely separate mortuary complexes goes against the evidence from all across Egyptian history, but the question is still a good one and definitely worth considering.
MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> Leaving aside the question of whether they did or
> they didn't, could the 4th Dyn. AEs have laid out
> these vast geometric patterns had they wanted to?
...
> I notice that it has been pointed out that the
> varying levels of the Giza plateau terrain make
> surveying over the large areas being proposed
> impossible.
> I don't know what differences in levels we are
> talking about here, but it occurs to me that the
> AEs could easily have built sighting towers.
Ah, but there's part of the problem. They would probably have been more accurate using the angles of the slopes, calculated as rise over run, and then figuring the length of the horizontal distance, but this has much the same problem as building the sighting towers.
How would they know their towers were all level? Surely that would only be as accurate as the device used to measure how level the device was on the first tower, if you take my meaning.
It has been conjectured that the leveling of a pyramid base was done with water in a trough built all the way around the perimeter. The difference in heights between one side of the pyramid and another, such as in Khufu's, is said to be the result of prevailing winds created a slightly "un-level" water line in the trough. Feasible, plausible and practical, but relatively unevidenced.
And, of course, this would never have worked over an area as large as the entire plateau, given the huge variations in altitude.
Also, this would not have worked, since we know the different complexes, built at different times, had gigantic stone walls separating them from each other.
And, we have to add to this the fact that there is no discernible reason whatsoever for them to break with established tradition and create the ONLY transgenerational funerary structures in all of Egyptian history. I fail to understand the intense fascination some have with the subject, but to each his own.
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> It is often argued that these 'accuracies' we see
> in the layout of Khufu's pyramid are nothing more
> than results achieved by accident more than
> design.
> I disagree with this arguement.
Not by accident... by the margin of error inherent in their tools.
Anthony
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.
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