[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Of ALL the ancient wonders... why did it have to be the Pyramids that survive? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 12/22/2022 7:10:07 PM EDT
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Kick ass bronze statue? Useful lighthouse? Nope. Big Ole pile of rocks that you can literally find everywhere. Why is this? Didn't people want bricks for their houses, aqueducts or.... like walls? Why? |
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Quoted: The Lighthouse was also large. It's gone. By all accounts the lighthouse was heavily damaged by a series of earthquakes and became so unstable it either collapsed or was dismantled due to being a hazard It lasted until the 1300s. So eas around for about 1600 years. I also think the Egyptians at the time did not have the technology to repair such extensive damage. It was more economical to tear it down or let it collapse |
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Quoted: Hey Saladin, let's keep the Crusaders out. We have this big ass pile of rocks that we can make a wall with, let's use those and invent numbers. Why wasn't this conversation had? The locals did take the smooth facing stones off of it for local uses. But it was not worth the effort on the larger stones. |
| Apart from the structures buried under hundreds of feet of mud under the ocean the sphinx is the oldest man made structure to survive the global tsunamis after the comet impact 11,598 years ago. The pyramids were built as a tribute to the previous obliterated societies. Until we find a way to uncover what lies hundreds of feet below the ocean and sediment what came before the global floods will remain a mystery. |
| whats even more puzzling is they exist period.... Who ever created them didnt just start building these massive structures out of some of the hardest rocks on this planet with out generations of practice and learned knowledge that some how seem to only exist at the time they were built.. Yet to this day we still dont know exactly how and when they were made... |
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Quoted: whats even more puzzling is they exist period.... Who ever created them didnt just start building these massive structures out of some of the hardest rocks on this planet with out generations of practice and learned knowledge that some how seem to only exist at the time they were built.. Yet to this day we still dont know exactly how and when they were made... More like an advanced civilization decided to waste time putting a big ass pile of rocks in the middle of the desert instead of... you know exploring and shit. Imagine how much further along we'd be if Egypt spent their energy on useful things. |
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Quoted: Apart from the structures buried under hundreds of feet of mud under the ocean the sphinx is the oldest man made structure to survive the global tsunamis after the comet impact 11,598 years ago. The pyramids were built as a tribute to the previous obliterated societies. Until we find a way to uncover what lies hundreds of feet below the ocean and sediment what came before the global floods will remain a mystery. It's sand. The answer is sand. And disappointment. |
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Quoted: Hey Saladin, let's keep the Crusaders out. We have this big ass pile of rocks that we can make a wall with, let's use those and invent numbers. Why wasn't this conversation had? Legend has it the swipe taken out of Menkaure's pyramid was done just after the muslim conquest as part of an effort to destroy the pyramids.  That's probably bullshit though, the damage occurring probably as an effort to gain entrance. |
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Quoted: There’s lots of things older than the pyramids of Giza still around Attached File |
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Quoted: More like an advanced civilization decided to waste time putting a big ass pile of rocks in the middle of the desert instead of... you know exploring and shit. Imagine how much further along we'd be if Egypt spent their energy on useful things. The cost of the pyramids may have been what led to the downfall of the Old Kingdom. |
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Quoted: It's sand. The answer is sand. And disappointment. Quoted: Quoted: Apart from the structures buried under hundreds of feet of mud under the ocean the sphinx is the oldest man made structure to survive the global tsunamis after the comet impact 11,598 years ago. The pyramids were built as a tribute to the previous obliterated societies. Until we find a way to uncover what lies hundreds of feet below the ocean and sediment what came before the global floods will remain a mystery. It's sand. The answer is sand. And disappointment. Attached File |
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Quoted: The cost of the pyramids may have been what led to the downfall of the Old Kingdom. Quoted: Quoted: More like an advanced civilization decided to waste time putting a big ass pile of rocks in the middle of the desert instead of... you know exploring and shit. Imagine how much further along we'd be if Egypt spent their energy on useful things. The cost of the pyramids may have been what led to the downfall of the Old Kingdom. You would think Egypt would be embarrassed by that and bulldoze em down |
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Quoted: See the Greeks knew how to make the most of a bad situation. Quoted: Quoted: The Colossus of Rhodes fell down from an earthquake back in the 3rd Century BC. I think that they just gathered up the remains and reused most of it for tools and weapons. See the Greeks knew how to make the most of a bad situation. Actually the Greeks were going to rebuild it but an oracle told them the gods were angry for them building it. So they decided to just let it lay there. It was a huge tourist site until the 600s when supposedly the Arabs sold it off for scrap when they took Rhodes |
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Quoted: If aliens built the pyramids their technology is pathetic. Pretty arrogant statement- have you not seen the precision cuts through large hang material and exact dimensions "aliens" are said to have built? 4000 years later (and even that seems too young) we still can't even come up with a viable theory as to how it was done. Ramps and leverage don't cut it. |
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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Of ALL the ancient wonders... why did it have to be the Pyramids that survive? (Page 1 of 2)
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