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Originally Posted by jfrog
I can understand how it is hard to imagine the ancient people moving some of those rocks... but I'm with Pel, name one rock that they moved which we couldn't.
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A lot of claims are made due to a misunderstanding over semantics. For example...
"We still don't know how the Egyptians built the pyramids..."
That is true, to a point. But that statement doesn't mean, "Someone with enough motivation and resources today couldn't pile up millions of huge cut granite stones in a similar fashion that the Egyptians did."
There are in fact several different ways it could have been done. We just don't know
which way the Egyptians used.
The reason nobody has done such a feat since probably comes down to a simple reason: motivation. The massive pyramids of the Old Kingdom age at Giza took the resources and man power of an entire nation. AND - the builders were not slaves! They participated willingly, from all the most recently uncovered evidence.
But, that did take a toll on the Egyptian civilization. There followed a period of apparent civil unrest and upheaval known as the First Intermediate Period. The Egyptian nation was split politically for a time and the pyramids themselves were looted.
Perhaps the people came to the conclusion that all of their labor was for the wrong reasons? Doubt led to the questioning of authority and the Old Kingdom fell.
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