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Re: Adventurer Maps
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Date: 
Tue, 21 Dec 1999 16:14:35 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> 
> James Simpson wrote:
> 
> > The scale of human construction is almost unfathomable, though.  For one
> > thing, how could they feed such a work-force?  It must have taken all of
> > the resources of Egypt, as well as many tribute-states.  I'm really not
> > very well-informed about the matter, but I think that by all accounts,
> > the building of the Pyramids is a very mysterious subject.
> 
> Well, Hancock believes that the construction of Cheops would tax even *20th*
> century technology, much less a culture that existed 15,000 years ago (which
> is when, he believes, all of the stuff at Giza was begun).  For example, there
> are only 2 cranes in the world even capable of lifting the tonnage in one
> block of stone from Cheops.  You must read his books because to say that the
> building of the Pyramids is a very mysterious subject is putting it mildly;-)
> 
> -John

What about the theory that the blocks are a type of cement?  That they were
poured into place?  I don't remember who put forth that theory, but it was on
one of the (numerous) shows about the pyramids.

Jeff

P.S.  Did you know that Europe/Africa likely had contact with the Americas?
There is a lot of evidence (nicotine in egyptian mummies, a town in the Canary
Islands has the same style construction as Native American towns) to support
this.



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  Re: Adventurer Maps
 
(...) I don't believe it. Sandstone doesn't form naturally that easily, it needs a lot of pressure. Besides, that would mean that they were poured _nearly into place, and then they removed the pouring case from under it - if they had poured it, (...) (27 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Adventurer Maps
 
(...) Well, Hancock believes that the construction of Cheops would tax even *20th* century technology, much less a culture that existed 15,000 years ago (which is when, he believes, all of the stuff at Giza was begun). For example, there are only 2 (...) (27 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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