Usimare Setepenre Wrote:
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> Good evening Audrey,
>
> And thank you for your reply,
>
> I can assure that all of the information I have
> posted is both common knowledge within Egyptology,
> and readily available to all.
>
> The 20 years estimate in fact has nothing to do
> with Herodotus. Rather, it is based on the
> estimation of Egyptologists such as Mark Lehner
> and Zahi Hawass,

It's based on the adult lifespan of a privileged ancient Egyptian.
The window of opportunity that a king had time to construct his own tomb.
Nothing whatsoever to do with physical evidence, structural engineering or logistics.
If it's a tomb it had to be built in 20 years. Six million tons cut quarried and laid in 20 years.
You do the math.




as well as structural engineers
> knowledgeable in the subject such as Jean Pierre
> Houdin.
>
> And I'm afraid, von Daniken is far from irrelevant
> to this conversation. It was in fact his book,
> which contains nothing of substance, that was
> responsible for hoodwinking the uneducated masses
> who make up the vast majority of the general
> public into doubting the ancient Egyptians had the
> ability to build the Giza pyramids. Von Daniken
> is the one who first sowed that seed of doubt into
> the minds of the gullible and unlearned general
> public. And thus he is very much relevant to our
> discussion.

He didn't sow the seed.
He just modified pre existing ideas.
Questions have been raised right back into antiquity.
Egyptology providing simple answers for simple minds.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 13-Jan-18 10:31 by Jon Ellison.