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cladking Wrote:
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> OCaptain Wrote:
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> > Documentation for your assertion that all
> > professional Egyptologists say that there is a
> > 100% probability of ramps being used?
> >
> > Which professors and in which published papers?
>
> And you know damn well that Egyptologists only
> believe in stinky footed construction techniques.
> How many times does Dr Lehner have to suggest the
> men lived and died on ramps or say, "The question
> of what kind of ramp was used has produced a whole
> spectrum of possible answers..."? He is simply
> saying "they mustta used ramps we just don't know
> what they looked like". (Complete Pyramids pg
> 215)
>
> You'll find this in all the books written by all
> the et als; that they used ramps is never really
> questioned until somebody dreams up an even
> stinkier footed idea but these never get much
> traction because everyone knows they used ramps of
> one configuration or another. This is just the way
> it is. They used ramps because they had no other
> technology even though the wheel was 1000 years
> old when they are believed to have been built.
> Even though there are more logical and better
> evidenced means that they might have been built
> like pulling stones straight up the side.
>
> Egyptologists have dug their own rut and now they
> must lie in it.
So, Lehner is one, not all, of the Egyptologists in the world.
Who else? Names, please.
Brian
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 13-Jan-17 00:09 by OCaptain.
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> OCaptain Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
>
> > Documentation for your assertion that all
> > professional Egyptologists say that there is a
> > 100% probability of ramps being used?
> >
> > Which professors and in which published papers?
>
> And you know damn well that Egyptologists only
> believe in stinky footed construction techniques.
> How many times does Dr Lehner have to suggest the
> men lived and died on ramps or say, "The question
> of what kind of ramp was used has produced a whole
> spectrum of possible answers..."? He is simply
> saying "they mustta used ramps we just don't know
> what they looked like". (Complete Pyramids pg
> 215)
>
> You'll find this in all the books written by all
> the et als; that they used ramps is never really
> questioned until somebody dreams up an even
> stinkier footed idea but these never get much
> traction because everyone knows they used ramps of
> one configuration or another. This is just the way
> it is. They used ramps because they had no other
> technology even though the wheel was 1000 years
> old when they are believed to have been built.
> Even though there are more logical and better
> evidenced means that they might have been built
> like pulling stones straight up the side.
>
> Egyptologists have dug their own rut and now they
> must lie in it.
So, Lehner is one, not all, of the Egyptologists in the world.
Who else? Names, please.
Brian
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 13-Jan-17 00:09 by OCaptain.
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