OFF: Re: Pyramids

[Mike Fuller]

WARNING ** this has no HW or BOC reference at all - except that HW would
be writing songs about Atlantean civilistaions building pyramids if they
weren't already writing songs about aliens ** :)


>>>>> On Mon, 26 Aug 1996 16:57:00 BST-1, Gordon Hundley
>>>>> <drgoon at CIX.COMPULINK.CO.UK> said:

Gordon> Yes, sure, but that's not the case here. These megalithic
Gordon> monuments tie up very closely indeed with the positions of
Gordon> several very bright celestial objects, particularly if you take
Gordon> into account the precession of the equinoxes and reference a
Gordon> date of 10240BC. Bauval isn't fool enough to take on the wrath
Gordon> of every egyptologist by suggesting that the pyramids are of
Gordon> that age (though other scholars have) but instead says that the
Gordon> ground plan must have been fixed at that time. Incedentally, our
Gordon> dating of the pyramids and sphinx to 2686-2181BC is based
Gordon> entirely on later texts that ascribe these pryamids to the
Gordon> pharoahs of that time, and numerous 'holes' have been filled in
Gordon> for convenience and consistancy.  This is depite other texts of
Gordon> similar age and later that suggest that they are older than the
Gordon> pharoahs that claimed them.


I saw something on The Learning Channel last month about the Sphinx.
Apparently much of the erosion on the Sphinx's body is water erosion,
not sand erosion, and the last time it rained regularly there was around
10,000 BC, at the end of the last ice age.  They theorized that the
Sphinx was originally just a lion carved out of a solid rock by the
ancient people there, and that the Egyptians modified the head at a
later date to fit their mythology.

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                                Mike