Author: Origyptian ()
Date: January 09, 2017 02:23PM
Audrey Wrote:
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> Steve Clayton Wrote:
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> > Your a pair of geniuses... How do you think they
> > moved their obelisks down the Nile?
>
> Ok Einstein, show us a boat buried or painted or
> inscribed that could float at least 30 tons. Even
> though the relieving chambers boast 50+ tons, you
> should be able to find something to handle 30.
> You'll not find one from the 4th dyn, so at least
> show us one depicted centuries later that could
> handle the task. And then explain how the boat
> that came centuries later, is proof that's what
> they had in the 4th dyn.
>
> And then maybe you could estimate the height of
> the Nile at the time the pyramids were built. You
> brag of having an open mind, how do you know a
> causeway was needed to float stones? Wouldn't that
> all hinge on the height of the Nile at the time?

For that matter, I'm still trying to figure out how the Romans got those 60-100 ton igneous columns down from the mountains of Egypt's Eastern Desert.

Hi Phil,

Two things stand out to me. Columns which are round and moving down hill. They carefully rolled then down hill. How else? :)