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- From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
- Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix (really Khufu's Pyramid)
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:37:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.180810.14801@digi.lonestar.org> gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo) writes:
-
- >
- >This relates to a couple of current threads here in sci.archeology
-
- Apparently. Isn't serendipity wonderful. However, though I have
- never read sci.archeology, I would suspect that y'all's thread
- is never-ending.
-
- Isn't there a FAQ with which to pummel people who suggest changes
- in nature's laws and space aliens?
-
- >So now we have at least opened up the discussion about the use of the pyramids
- >as tombs. I think these are the recent discoveries I remember reading about.
- >
- >Withdrawing any previous statements about shreds of evidence, the evidence that
- >we do have that the pyramids were built as tombs is very questionable. That they had a l
-
- The point is that *all* the evidence about this time is questionable.
-
- >It is interesting that after the Old Kingdom the pyramid forms were never again
- >used, for tombs or anything else.
-
- Not so. The Saites loved to bury people in Pyramids, including
- the old ones. In addition "private tombs of pyramidal form
- or incorporating a pyramid in their architectural design were
- built from the Middle Kingdom until Roman times." Edwards, "The
- Pyramids of Egypt".
-
- >Question: Did all the pharaohs of the Old Kingdom
- >have pyramids, of whatever size? This might help resolve the question of whether
-
- Who knows? For instance, we have not found a pyramid of
- Huni who supposedly reigned over 20 years. However, Snofru after him
- is now thought to have had three. Zoser, Sekhemket, and
- Khaba (III dynasty) before him each supposedly had a large one.
- So, during at least one period, we are left with too many for the number
- of kings.
-
- >the pyramids were built to bury the pharaohs or for other purposes of life.
- >
- >The "tradition" that Khufu is buried *below* the pyramid is nothing but that, a
- >tradition. Indeed, if he were buried in the grounds around the pyramid it would
- >be below the pyramid. I too have a feeling that there are still interesting things
- >to be discovered at Giza (and I am not looking for alien spacecraft).
-
- Of course it is nothing more than a tradition, it also has him
- buried on a subterranian island connected to the nile.
-
- Other traditions have the blocks floating down a magic road.
-
- >I would appreciate it if you could cite some specific references for this material.
-
- Almost any legitimate comprehensive source on the pyramids has
- this information in it. I have already given two that include
- such information.
-
- Have a good day.
-
- dale bass
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