A lost supercivilization built the Giza pyramids 12,000 years ago. “The pyramids of Giza were not built by the pharaohs of the Fourth Dynasty, but rather appropriated by them”.
by ZarathustraNothing
A lost supercivilization built the Giza pyramids 12,000 years ago. “The pyramids of Giza were not built by the pharaohs of the Fourth Dynasty, but rather appropriated by them”.
by ZarathustraNothing
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These are so funny.
A pyramid is literally the simplest monumental structure it is possible to construct. You make a square out of blocks and then make a slightly smaller square on top of that one and repeat. At each step, no pun intended, you have created a step to the next level. The idea that it takes a ‘lost supercivilization’ is so ridiculous
A lost supercivilization built the McDonalds on the corner of my street, McDonalds just apropriated it.
Do you really think a farmer like Mcdonald can construct a building.
Wake up sheeple!
I think that’s pretty obvious tbh.
The paper that the article is talking about is really terrible. That has nothing to do with the age of the pyramids – it’s just poorly written and researched. If it were making similar arguments for mainstream dating it would be just as bad. There are a total of 4 items in the bibliography, which isn’t remotely enough for the arguments being made.
For instance,
> There are no contemporary inscriptions that unequivocally link Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure to the pyramids. The only direct reference, the so-called “Khufu cartouche” in the relieving chambers
I’ve seen the mention of a single cartouche in number of places online. If you do most cursory of research and just look at images of the inscriptions, there are clearly multiple cartouches. The author can argue that these are all forgeries but talking about a single cartouche is a tell that there wasn’t really much research going on here before writing the article.
> https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/perring1839bd1/0017/image,info
The contemporary names of the pyramids, which appear in multiple places in Giza outside the pyramids, include the names of pharaohs. For the Great Pyramid that was Akhet Khufu and was written like below.
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Akhet-Khufu.svg/3840px-Akhet-Khufu.svg.png
If you search through Egyptian texts from Giza there are plenty of references to the pyramids.^1 There are a lot of people with titles that includes the names of the pyramids.
That doesn’t mean the pyramids were built in the 4th dynasty. It does mean that the author isn’t familiar with basic evidence from Giza though.
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1. https://topbib.griffith.ox.ac.uk/printed.html Vol. III/1 for Giza
That would be like an architect from the US going to an uncontacted tribe to show them how to build grass huts.
The pyramids show no signs of engineering that the Egyptians weren’t capable of and have done thousands of times in hundreds of other locations. I think this is a major misunderstanding that mostly comes out of America. There seems to be people that think that the pyramids of Giza are a one off, when they are just one of the many pieces of infrastructure that survive from that time. There are over 100 pyramids, there are entire cities, dams, roads, temples, stores, houses, there is the evidence of an entire civilisations, not just 3 pyramids.
Stone henge doesn’t exist in isolation, it’s one of thousands of sites from that time period. The only way you can believe these theories is if you completely ignore all the other archaeology around them.
Oh no, the evil cabal of archeologists and historians are going to silence you, you’ve revealed too much!