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- From: gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo)
- Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
- Subject: Re: The Great Pyramid of Giza
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.172623.14581@digi.lonestar.org>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:26:23 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.035538.13380@draco.macsch.com>
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- jfb@draco.macsch.com (John Baskette) responds to Zerxes M Bhagalias
- unknown source about the pyramids and ancient alien visitors, citing
- the work of the great early egyptologist, Flinders Petrie, and quoting
- extensively from Peter Tompkins's "Secrets of the Great Pyramid".
-
- [deleted]
-
- >Where do you get your facts and information? Can you document
- >them from primary source material? My bet is that your sources
- >are all of doubtful reliability. Since some of your claims are
- >clearly false, why should I believe anything else you say on this
- >subject?
-
- At last a reasonable, non-inflamatory challenge. I remember this
- book of Peter Tompkins. Wasn't there also a chapter in it by
- Stechini or something like that which was quite precise and re-
- visited the subject of ancient mensuration. I recall that he
- argued quite well that the ancients were far more precise in their
- measurements than we give them credit for, and that the early studies
- like those of Petrie were primitive (the hieroglyphics hadn't even been
- translated in his time) and religiously tendentious, but that the
- questions they raised as far as measurements are still valid. John,
- did you happen to look at that chapter? Does it have any bearing on
- this subject (of the precision of the measurements, not of aliens or
- prophetic time-lines)?
-
- It is true that the trend in scholarship has been to dismiss these
- early claims of the prophetic time-line types, and rightly so. But
- there may have been a swing too far in the other direction. The result
- may well be that more thorough study that would reveal new information
- about the proportions would be quite possible but has been neglected.
-
- Is there any minority opinion scholarship that has reopened the
- question of the measurements of the pyramids -- e.g. with respect to
- ancient standards, their possible use as geodetic measuring instruments,
- etc.?
-
- Gerry Palo (73237.2006@compuserve.com)
-