I saw on the history channel last night that they could have made saws by placing a heavy, coarse stone on top of the said block they wished to carve then have oxen pull the coarse stone with a series of rope and something to hold the stone up. They showed some blocks from way back when with such precise cuts that no hand could have carved it.

Also, I think they said the romans had a similar method but it was water powered and had multiple blades.

Children all over the world are tought that the Egiptians toiled hard to carry every single block to the site!
My teacher once told me that even today in some pyramid, you cant insert a blade in between the two blocks. Justifies the 'poured over' claims! Coz then any sort of crevices would have definately been filled!!!

There seems to be always something to discover about the pyramids. I initially thought they were single pieces of rock carved out, and then read about a few other theories from friends. And now, i have just read about pyramid construction being an ancient art of modern construction.


Leaving behind the pyramid material thing,.. i have another question in mind. Who actually constructed the pyramids ?? Though textbooks claim it to be Egyptians, i have read and heard that people from the civilization of Atlantis have built it at Egypt. And also in one of the documentaries that i have watched, they showed a couple of supporting evidences. Though i don't remember it exactly, it was something like this ...

Plato has written some descriptions about Atlantis and its culture. According to that, the style of rocks used in building Atlantis buildings and the rocks in pyramids had some similarity.

nobody knows how the great pyramids were built unless you travel back in time. They could be built by aliens, could be built by humans dictated by aliens, who knows? its only a debate that can go so far, but if you think about it, unless the egyptians has some access to the knowledge of those precise angles, and those materials the aliens built/helped build the pyramids

yea the pyramids have always amazed me.
how such a really simple thing became such a mystery.
There are always theories on everything that has to do with them.
I remmmember watching something about how different pyramids (south america/egypt/africa/ all around) all sprung up at about the same time)
Now how did EVerybody without communication all get the ideas of pyramids at the same time.
Its one of thoes mysteries i want to know all about.
And of course, like always, theirs always thoes few that think it was the dam aliens that told em how... but who knows

Wow, they must have been strong and determined. They were higher then most buildings and are huge. Since they didn't have cranes or any way of transport (Concrete Mixer/Pumper) they had to haul there concrete "mix" all the way up. Even then how did they make the outline and mold to pour it all in? Heavy and dirty. I think these people are harder workers then most of us and we just say we work hard. Look they made a skyscraper with out even thinking about it. We just bury people with rocks in there head.

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Agent

Funny we learned that the cruel rulers made the labourers carry the load and then hoist all the big rocks and shape'em in the form of a pyramid. This kinda explain it all. Though i read the all the concepts that were there, i was still unsure at the capacity in which the work was done. It's definately the unlearn thing we have to do now lol.
Lets see what the final details are like. The part about making rooms still remain a mystery though.

Just think about the method they used being used nowadays.. they can be very helpful for the environmental health. less dissipation of CO2 in the air and more robust structures built. The matter they used to make the pyriamids as told in the review is easily available and can be used to make the building matter of nowadays buildings.

This post has been edited by Soby: Sep 3 2007, 09:33 AM

Iraq is the site of the beginnings of human civilization (as current archaeological evidence supports) and is the site of ancient cities and regions such as Sumer (Modern-day "Kish"), Ur of the Chaldeans (Genesis 11:28), and Babylon and many many sites written of in the Old Testament. More than historical curiosities, these places are believed by many to still hold secrets of our past including a real stargate!

If you're going for hosting credits, I'd strongly suggest you contribute meaningful material to the topics and threads here instead of writing meaningless nonsensical garbage. Noted in report.

This post has been edited by Watermonkey: Sep 29 2007, 07:21 AM

I cannot saz too much but Id like to point out that we are not certain how and from what are pzrimadis build.

Alsdo I dont see how can you use atomic science to check what is in it.