cladking Wrote:
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> Warwick L Nixon Wrote:
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> > why would one expect to find the job
> descriptions
> > of common labourers anywhere?
>
> Because their bosses all had job descriptions. If
> one is "Overseer of the Sculptors" it is logical
> to assume there were more than one man who was a
> "Sculptor". By the same token the lack of titles
> reflecting a muscle based system to lift stones
> should be considered a pretty serious argument
> against a muscle based system just as the lack of
> evidence for a large numbers of workers should be
> considered a serious flaw in the paradigm.
>
> > and how the heck do you know what words they
> did
> > or did not have??
>
> No translator has translated any words that denote
> things like thought or opinion. This pretty
> strongly suggests first that they didn't
> experience thought as we do and that the language
> works differently than ours. That words like
> "ramp" are also missing is just more telltale
> evidence that we are misinterpreting all the
> facts.
>
> > YOU cannot read the language..stop
> pontificating
> > about it s if you could.
>
> One doesn't need to read the language to observe
> almost no modern translators have found the word
> "ramp".
>
> > this whole thread started with you not
> > appreciating the long term effects of water
> on
> > Limestone.
>
> I'm sure you aren't suggesting that exposure to
> long periods of water causes limestone to get hot
> in only a few spots on the pyramid.
>
> It started because there's an enigma wrapped in a
> pyramid. It started because Egyptological
> interest in the enigma stopped when no one could
> come up with a plausible guess as to the reason.
>
>
>
>
>
> ____________
> Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.


The ancient Egyptian word for "ramp" is tA-rd. It appears in the Pyramid Texts.

Case closed.