Who built the pyramids?

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FormulaNova

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FormulaNova

WA, 15100 posts

22 Sep 2010 2:53pm

Carantoc said...
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I don't know, just guessing there is more to Egypt than the pyramids

Well..., there is windsurfing in Dahab and Moon Beach.

sausage

QLD

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sausage

QLD, 4874 posts

22 Sep 2010 5:25pm

Carantoc said...

sausage said...
[brthose useless buildings have put more into the Egyptian economy than any other hair brained idea of the day (then & now

Not sure that is right.

Built with slave labour and one could argue Egypt didn't have an economy as such when they were built.

Nobody then paid any real interest in them for 3,000 years until the first archeological expedition in about 1860, except grave robbers, who working illegally probably didn't do that much for the economy.

Bit of tourism since 1870.

I would say the Suez canal has probably done more, or the Aswan dam, or the port of Alexandria, or even the tunnels across the Gaza ? Israeli border, or maybe palm oil even.

I don't know, just guessing there is more to Egypt than the pyramids

Yes totally agree with you Carantoc, but I was referring to hair brained ideas i.e. the pyramids (biggest grave stone ever) and then mark_aus' reference to the Syd Op House being a waste of money.

theDoctor

NSW

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theDoctor

NSW, 5786 posts

23 Sep 2010 12:15am

but there was no tombs in the great pyramid... a granite sarcophages but no tomb

Bigwavedave

QLD

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Bigwavedave

QLD, 2057 posts

23 Sep 2010 12:18am

theDoctor said...

but there was no tombs in the great pyramid... a granite sarcophages but no tomb

Correction:

They haven't found any tombs in the Great Pyramid yet.

theDoctor

NSW

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theDoctor

NSW, 5786 posts

23 Sep 2010 12:21am

or any intelligence in queensland

japie

NSW

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japie

NSW, 7146 posts

23 Sep 2010 12:28am

theDoctor said...

or any intelligence in queensland

There has been, I was there not long ago!

log man

VIC

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log man

VIC, 8289 posts

23 Sep 2010 12:28am

sausage said...

Mark _australia said...

Panda they probably could - if they saw it as functional.

it is only us in these modern enlightened times who need to waste money on making monstrosities to prove our cleverness (to whom, I ask?) whilst millions starve and fade away through il health.....

Funny that because this is what Mark_Egypt said 3000 years ago on an Egyption forum (a stone one of course) regarding the government of the day building stupidly large and somewhat useless buildings. Little did he realise that those useless buildings have put more into the Egyptian economy than any other hair brained idea of the day (then & now), thereby providing better services and living standards for the future generations.

Now I wont spell out the correlation of this parable with the Sydney Opera house, but 99% of foreigners when asked what's the first thing that comes to their mind when they think of Australia, that "waste of money" is the answer. Pretty valuable asset in my mind.

PS - I have to disclose that I am at the creative end of the building industry and am somewhat one eyed on the subject

HEE HEE

evlPanda

NSW

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evlPanda

NSW, 9207 posts

23 Sep 2010 12:04pm

A) There is no way they could have built the opera house. I'm not in any way saying they were dumb, just not technologically progressed enough.
B) Slaves dude. Slaves built the pyramids.#63275;

OK... How about this then? There is no way in hell the Ancient Egyptians could have built pyramids using computer controlled bacteria:

Nor could they have built a modern windsurfer.

choco

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choco

SA, 4181 posts

23 Sep 2010 5:20pm

PS - I have to disclose that I am at the creative end of the building industry and am somewhat one eyed on the subject

does that mean your a pencil sharpner?

sausage

QLD

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sausage

QLD, 4874 posts

23 Sep 2010 11:09pm

choco said...

PS - I have to disclose that I am at the creative end of the building industry and am somewhat one eyed on the subject

does that mean your a pencil sharpner?

No I'm more a very blunt pencil that only gets sharpened very infrequently.

Gestalt

QLD

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Gestalt

QLD, 14954 posts

23 Sep 2010 11:19pm

^ i've heard you have got a fair bit of lead in your pencil though

japie

NSW

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japie

NSW, 7146 posts

24 Sep 2010 11:46am

Here is another example of the complexity of civilisation before the sea water rose.

Why do we hear so little about this sort of stuff in the media and why is it not throughly researched?

Perhaps if the research were to reveal the truth many of our modern institutions such as christianity would be debunked?

www.academia.edu/3779666/Ancient_Canal_Builders_-_Overview

Haircut

QLD

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Haircut

QLD, 6491 posts

24 Sep 2010 6:19pm

as someone pointed out in the funny photos thread.....

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