I posted another reply the other night, but it seems it got lost in cyberspace. Grrr...

Oh... Personally, I find the lack of imagination is in the "Space Aliens" approach. So space aliens for no discernable reason, using no describable technology, stopped in one day and built the pyramids. Ho, hum. That's about as good as the motivation behind the serial killer of a B-movie....<<
Aliens would not have built them "just because", because they were bored, or wanted to test out their new particle displacement mechanism. BUT.. there is evidence all over the world and especially in the middle east, that there were at some point in the past, advanced civilizations that had the ability do to things we can't do today. The proof of the pyramids aligning with astrological patterns 10 to 12k years ago was not conjured up by some flake trying to sell a book or docudrama. It was researched by another group of archaeologists and scientists that don't agree with the idea of them being merely 4,000 years old, or being built by the egyptians who lived there 4,000 years ago. The same group who pointed out that the erosion on the pyramids and sphinx was WATER erosion, NOT sand and wind erosion. Egypt was not always a dessert. They know that way way way back (a lot further back than 4,000 years), egypt and much of the middle east was more tropic and jungle-like, as is the majority of africa today. The people that refuse to beleive or even do any investigation into the idea of the pyramids being much more than 4000 years old, are the ones who claim the erosion is from wind and sand and the occasional flooding of the nile. (the nile floods - or did - every year, around the same time each year, which is how the egyptians lived, and grew their crops along the banks of the nile, and created an irrigation system that allowed the flooding river to help their crops grow better). The erosion that the others are talking about is from thousands of years of standing water, a lot further back than 4.
I think there are far too many archaeologists and scientists who allow their religious beliefs to interfere with their studies. If you go along with the xian bible, then man is only about 6,000 years old, which gives them about 2,000 years to come up with the mathematics and technology it took to build the pyramids. The same pyramids that we can't reconstruct today, after 6,000 years of math and technology, and computers that you can hold in the palm of your hand... There are tons of pyramids all over egypt that are much smaller and much more poorly built, many of them in ruins. Supposedly those are the "practice runs" that gave them the experience to build the main 3. Riiiiggghhht. Why is it so difficult to accept the idea that maybe, just maybe, the egyptians weren't the ones who did it? Ever heard of the Sumarians? They're origins are a complete mystery to anybody whose ever done any research into them. They know a lot about what their accomplishments were, but they have no factual data as to where they came from OR where they went. They were around for a few hundred years, were way more advanced than any other civilization of its time, and then suddenly they were just gone. Of course there's tons of theories and hypotheses about it all, but when its all said and done, they really don't know squat. And what about Atlantis? There's tons of written works that talk about atlantis from various parts of the world, but no actual proof that it ever existed. Does that mean it didn't exist? No one believed that the city of Troy ever existed either, until an archaeologist in the 18-1900's decided he was going to find it. Then whad'yaknow, he didn't just find one troy, he found seven, each one burried beneath the next.

E.D.

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