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Steve Clayton Wrote:
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> Author: Origyptian ()
> Date: January 16, 2017 07:00PM
> Steve Clayton Wrote:
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> > Author: Origyptian wrote:
> > Date: January 16, 2017 04:22PM
> > Steve Clayton Wrote:
> >
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> >
> > > How many people paint Hover Dam or mention it in
> > > their religious representations?
> >
> > There is plenty of evidence in our iconic
> > (graphic) and desctiptive (history books) evidence
> > to directly attest to eyewitness accounts of
> > construction of that Dam. Not so about any
> > megalithic pyramid.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Can we now move to the evidence of saw marks
> > > found. Are all the saw marks made by alt/AE or AE?
> >
> > Agsin, with the huge volume of evidence that
> > remains from the the Dyanstic period, where is
> > there any evidence they had that specific
> > capability?
> >
> >
> > Hi Phil,
> >
> > I showed you a painting on a plastered surface.
>
> > Are you saying all saw marks were done by the
> > alt/AE up and down the Nile?
>
> As I said, that painting of the bow drill is
> depicting woodwork, not stonework.
>
> I'm saying that I don't see how such saw marks
> could have been made with the technology known to
> be available to 3rd millennium BC Egypt despite
> all the other massive amount of evidence that's
> been attributed to that culture. You'd think that
> with so many millions of tons of masonry going on
> during that time -- such an enormous volume of
> engineering that is arguably the most well known
> accomplishment of any ancient civilization --
> there'd be some record of such technology from
> what surely was over a million people who
> participated or observed such construction
> firsthand during those centuries.
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> Good point. No pictorials of sawing tura stone.
> The great majority of the AE could'nt read, write,
> or paint.
>
> What's up with these people? If the alt/AE could
> perform such monuments, why didn't leave us
> something more to look at, other than the
> Pyramids?
As a matter of fact, I don't even think the entire pyramids are left either. I think we're just looking at the durable bones after all the flesh has been pilfered. Judging from what we see there today, it's quite possible that at least G1 was originally fitted with a lot more stuff that has since been "absorbed" by the locals over the millennia. So it's no wonder that we see no evidence of writing, bones, food, documents, etc., since they would be far less durable than stone and would clearly ahve been the first to go in terms of absorption into the local culture and resorption back to Nature. I don't really see the absence of such non-durable media as being that mysterious when you consider that those things may have been constructed millennia earlier than traditionalists would have us believe.
The fact is, there is no direct way to date whether the stonework we see there was created 5,000 or 50,000 years ago...or more. And the longer ago they were build, the far less likely any other less durable evidence would have survived until today.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 18-Jan-17 13:28 by Origyptian.
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> Author: Origyptian ()
> Date: January 16, 2017 07:00PM
> Steve Clayton Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Author: Origyptian wrote:
> > Date: January 16, 2017 04:22PM
> > Steve Clayton Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> >
> > > How many people paint Hover Dam or mention it in
> > > their religious representations?
> >
> > There is plenty of evidence in our iconic
> > (graphic) and desctiptive (history books) evidence
> > to directly attest to eyewitness accounts of
> > construction of that Dam. Not so about any
> > megalithic pyramid.
> >
> >
> >
> > > Can we now move to the evidence of saw marks
> > > found. Are all the saw marks made by alt/AE or AE?
> >
> > Agsin, with the huge volume of evidence that
> > remains from the the Dyanstic period, where is
> > there any evidence they had that specific
> > capability?
> >
> >
> > Hi Phil,
> >
> > I showed you a painting on a plastered surface.
>
> > Are you saying all saw marks were done by the
> > alt/AE up and down the Nile?
>
> As I said, that painting of the bow drill is
> depicting woodwork, not stonework.
>
> I'm saying that I don't see how such saw marks
> could have been made with the technology known to
> be available to 3rd millennium BC Egypt despite
> all the other massive amount of evidence that's
> been attributed to that culture. You'd think that
> with so many millions of tons of masonry going on
> during that time -- such an enormous volume of
> engineering that is arguably the most well known
> accomplishment of any ancient civilization --
> there'd be some record of such technology from
> what surely was over a million people who
> participated or observed such construction
> firsthand during those centuries.
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> Good point. No pictorials of sawing tura stone.
> The great majority of the AE could'nt read, write,
> or paint.
>
> What's up with these people? If the alt/AE could
> perform such monuments, why didn't leave us
> something more to look at, other than the
> Pyramids?
As a matter of fact, I don't even think the entire pyramids are left either. I think we're just looking at the durable bones after all the flesh has been pilfered. Judging from what we see there today, it's quite possible that at least G1 was originally fitted with a lot more stuff that has since been "absorbed" by the locals over the millennia. So it's no wonder that we see no evidence of writing, bones, food, documents, etc., since they would be far less durable than stone and would clearly ahve been the first to go in terms of absorption into the local culture and resorption back to Nature. I don't really see the absence of such non-durable media as being that mysterious when you consider that those things may have been constructed millennia earlier than traditionalists would have us believe.
The fact is, there is no direct way to date whether the stonework we see there was created 5,000 or 50,000 years ago...or more. And the longer ago they were build, the far less likely any other less durable evidence would have survived until today.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 18-Jan-17 13:28 by Origyptian.
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