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The
pyramids of Egypt:
How on earth did they manage to cut, move and raise the
stones?
 The
pyramids are impressive structures of stone. Made of limestone,
granite and basalt. Millions of stones, some of them as
heavy as 80 tons. But how did the ancient Egyptians manage
to cut them, transport them over great distances and make
them into tall pyramids? Some say that they had help by
aliens from outer space but might be the help came from
giants from the mountains of Siberia?
The
pyamids of Giza in Egypt are said to have been built around
2500 BC, as tombs for their kings - the pharaohs. The pharaohs
were considered to be mediators between the gods and the people,
or even demigods, and the accepted theory is that the pharaohs
were mummified to make the king's spirit able to stay with
the body when he died. Their coffins were then placed in pyramids
to protect their bodies and spirits in the journey to eternal
life.
The gods had helped the people to
develop their society and also to maintain peace and harmony.
There were more that 2000 gods and deities in ancient Egypt.
When the Christian faith started to take foothold in Egypt
the local gods were also said to live in heaven, but the original
belief was that the gods were born, lived and died on Earth.
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Amun-Ra
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Gods
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Ramses II - how he looked
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Pyramid of Djoser
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Imhotep
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Ptah - the god
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Blocks Djoser's
pyramid
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The pyramids of Giza
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Box in King's Chamber
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Serapeum of Saqqara
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Vases Great Pyramid
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Was this the Shamir?
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Moses parts the Red Sea
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First temple found?
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Not always a desert
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Flying god Ahura Mazda
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Stones Great Pyramid
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Robert
Schoch and Sphinx
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Thor Heyerdahl
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Denisova cave
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The
gods
A
bit about the gods: Amun-Ra, also called Amon ("the hidden
one"), was the king of the gods and goddesses. Osiris
was the god of vegetation and made sure that the Nile flooded
and made the land fertile. He married his own sister Isis
and was murdered by his brother Seth. Their child was Horus.
He avenged his father's death and ruled Egypt. Thoth was the
god of knowledge and wisdom. He was the one to teach the Egyptians
science and philosophy - and shall have created the 365-days
calendar.
Married his own sister - murdered
his brother..? Not very godly like were they? But they obviously
had more knowledge than ordinary people.
If
we look at ancient statues and depictions of the gods and
the pharaohs you might notice that the gods are much taller
than the pharaohs. Some say that this is because they wanted
to glorify the gods.
Well, the gods might not look like
Egyptians but then why did they then make them look like human
beings? The gods seem to have had more European features -
even blue eyes! Yes, ancients statues and depictions show
that their gods were what we can call giants. Not 3-4 meters
giants from fairy-tales, but about two and a half meter tall.
When
all the gods of Egypt had died the people had to manage on
their own. The king that seemed
to have inherited the most of the genes after the gods was
Ramses II. He was a bit taller than 2 meters - almost half
a meter taller than people at that time. He did not look like
an Egyptian. He face had more Scandinavian features - with
a sharp, long nose. He had natural red hair when he was alive
- and some depictions show him with blue eyes.
When Ramses II died in 1214 BC, at
an age of 90, he had more or less changed the country: He
had made Egypt rich from the supplies he had collected from
other empires. The Egyptians called him the "Great Ancestor".
Ramses was not burried in a pyramid but in the Valley of the
Kings. Today his mummy is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
First
pyramid
The
first pyramid was, after what we know, erected by and for
the pharaoh Djoser - completed about 2600 BC. Well, no coffin
or mummy of him has been found in the pyramid so something
must have happened - for how could he manage to come to the
afterlife?
Djoser's architect was Imhotep ("He
comes in peace"). Not the bald-headed character from
the film. In fact, the statue found of him he looks more like
he was a child! The strange thing about the statue is that
it looks like has a large back-head, like an elongated skull.
Well, one legend says that Imhotep was the son of the god
Ptah - and also he had a very large back-head!
Imhotep was so clever that he became
Djoser's vizir, and later even considered a god. He is believed
to have come with the idea that Djoser should put several
mastabas, ancient Egyptian tombs, on top of each other - and
that way he made the first pyramid.
Archaeologists have now discovered
that there is a huge trench completely surrounding the pyramid,
and that there are more than 7,5 kilometres of tunnels under
the pyramid! The stones used for Djosers pyramid is limestone,
quite easy to cut, but the burial chamber has huge blocks
carved out of granite - which should be impossible with the
tools they had at the time.
Pyramid of Djoser is 62 meters tall,
about the same as a 20-storey building. It has a base of 100x120
meters, which is larger than a soccer-field.
Great Pyramid of Giza
Djoser's pyramid is far from the tallest or largest pyramid
in Egypt. That is the Great Pyramid of Giza - also called
Pyramid of Khufu or Pyramid of Cheops. Many people believe
that the pyramid with the casting stones covering the top
third of the pyramid is the Great Pyramid but that is the
pyramid of pharaoh Khafre - the son of Khufu - who also is
said to have made the famous Sphinx.
The Great Pyramid is 147 meters tall
and has a base of 230x230meters. It is made of about 2.3 million
stone blocks weighing 2,5 to 15 tons. In the so-called King's
Chamber and Grand Gallery there are there are granite block
weighing 50 tones or more.
And pharaoh Khufu? We do not know
- his body/mummy has never been found. The box of red granite
in the King's chamber is not big enough for a sarcophagus
of a king!
Buried
in a hillside cave system about 12 miles south of the Great
Pyramid are some large black "boxes" of granite.
How did they manage to make and move these Serapeum of Saqqara?
How did they manage to get the enormous lids placed on top
of the boxes? Who made them? How? And why?
Copper chiesels
The belief is that the ancient Egyptians carved the stone
out from quarries with copper chisels and then dragged and
lifted them into position. Well, copper chisels will not be
able to cut granite - and event today with the largest cranes
in the world we would have trouble lifting 15 ton stone blocks
almost 150 meters in the air. 50 tons or more - forget it!
It must be safe to say that we do
not know what kind of the technology they used to built the
pyramids.
Jars and vases found in the Great
Pyramid, and today at display in a Cairo museum, are even
a greater mystery. Some of them are made of granite and some
of basalt, hollow and with thin walls. A few even have long
necks. It must be safe to say that we would struggle to replicate
those vases today - even with the most modern diamond tipped
drills!
The Shamir
Did Imhotep have a unique technique he taught the ancient
Egyptians? He not only was behind the first pyramid of Egypt,
he was also called the father of medicine and writing. Imhotep
rose in the ranks to become the vizier to the pharaoh and
later he was as earlier mentined even considered to be a god.
Well, even with all his knowledge
it should still be impossible to cut granite and basalt with
chisels of copper. But might be he had a another tool? Might
be the Shamir?
The Shamir is said to have been a
"substance" that Moses used to engrave the jewels
for the priestly breastplate. It was said that the "magical
Shamir" could cut through or disintegrate stone, iron
and diamond.
If Moses that led the Israelites out
of Egypt by parted the Red Sea was a historical person, then
he should have lived during the reign of pharaoh Ramses II.
And most probably have been born in the late 14th century
BC.
Later
king Salomon, who reigned app. 970-931 BC, should have found
the Shamir and used it to make the first temple of Israel.
Channels
So let us say that they managed to cut the small and large
stones, by manpower or a magical tool - how did they manage
to move the stones from the quarry in Aswan about 1000 kilometres
south of Giza? Some say that they dug channels from the Nile
and freighted them on boats or rafts. Let us say that they
managed to get onboard a stone of 2 tons - how many years
would that take to move the 2.3 million stones for the Great
Pyramid? Much longer time than a pharaoh's lifetime! Another
study says that they moved the stone blocks across the desert
by wetting the sand in front of sledges. Well, Egypt was not
a desert when the pyramids were built - the area was lush
and green!
Might be Imhotep, or a later vizier/builder,
had a tool that could make the stones fly? Or at least levitate?
Might be the Shamir could manage that as well?
Ramps
Mainstream archaeologists say that the ancients managed to
get the stone block up the walls by using ramps made of sand
or stone scraps. Well, there was a lack of sand in the area
since Giza not was a desert like it is today, and the stone
scraps would have been far away in Aswan and not in Giza.
But of course it would have been possible. But...all the way
to the top of the Great Pyramid - 150 meters up? For a ramp
not to be too steep to manage to push the stones upwards by
manpower the ramp would most probably have to be bigger in
volume than the pyramid itself! Yes, levitating stone would
have made the job much more easy!
Lost technology
Some researchers say that the ancients must have had a technology
that we do not have today. Lost, secret or hidden tochnology.
The clairvoyant Edgar Cayce said that there is an ancient
library, Hall of Records, under the Sphinx but so far nothing
has been found. Some say secret information telling the truth
of the past will be found in a not yet accessible room under
the Great Pyramid. The Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt
would have had lot of information but it was burned down by
Julius Caesar in 48 BC. The Book of Enoch has some interesting
information about ancient giants, demons and angels. Enoch
is supposed to have been the great-grandfather of Noah.
Far older
The Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza are supposed to have been
built during the Fourth Dynasty, a period that lasted from
2614 to 2492 BC. Robert Schoch, a professor and geologist
from the USA, created a fuss when said that the weathering
patterns on the Sphinx show that it must be far older - at
least seven thousand years old. Recently two researchers from
Ukraine have proposed that the Sphinx is about 800.000 years
old - and back it up by science!
Some researchers say that also the
Great Pyramid is far older than believed: That it not was
made by/for the pharaoh Khufu (Cheops). That the knowledge
needed to build a pyramid with such precision did not exist
at that time.
Different periods of time
The Norwegian scientist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl asked
it humanity might have been extinct to almost the last man.
And might be more than one time - like legends all over the
world say. He says that legends were the history books when
writing did not exist - told from generation to generation
not to be forgotten. Diodorus
Siculus, a Greek historian that lived around 50 BC wrote the
following: "The Egyptians were strangers, who, in remote
times, settled on the banks of the Nile, bringing with them
the civilization of their mother country, the art of writing,
and a polished language. They were the most ancient of men."
Denisovans
Could the ancient Egyptians have had some help from the mountains
of Siberia - from the Denisovans?
The Armenian-Greek mystery teacher
Gurdjieff believed that the there had been an advanced civilisation
in Central Asia about 40.000 years ago - who had inherited
their knowledge from "the old master magicians of Altai."
We do not know much about the Denisova
hominins but we know that they had a technology they should
not have - at least 30.000 years ago! Findings in the Denisova
cave in the Altai mountains point to that they were very tall
and they most probably had white skin and red or blond hair.
The Denisovans had clothes and jewellery,
they made art - and they most probably rode horses. Did they
leave Siberia and travelled the world? Well, DNA have found
so far away as Solomon Islands and Australia! Egypt? Were
the Denisovans the forefathers of the pharaohs? The gods?
Was Imhotep a descendant of the magicians from the Altai Mountains?
We do not know - yet. And we might never know. Because there
is the major problem: The Denisovans were not humans!
Is our ancient history fake?
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Terje Dahl
What
do you think?
Do you have any ideas, thoughts or facts - please send them
to Terje Dahl: terje@sydhav.no
Here are the ideas, thoughts and facts our readers have sent
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They dindt cut it. They made it from sand. Nile river
have most aliuminium oxides in the world. Best mixture
for concrete. And what can make concrete more likely
like a stone, than an Africa sun. If you climb higher
up the pyramid, on stones you will find lines from
a formation wood tool, as we making house fundament.
Its like giant bricks, make the same technic. Dont
know about huge granite blocks, thats other story..
Faust M
Come on, folks!
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