Steve Clayton Wrote:
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> 5,500 years ago, the change from a Green Sahara,
> into a desert, took place. Fossil water and the
> Nile's hydraulic pressures, could have supplied
> water to the surface 4,000 years ago, and the
> sands have now covered any evidence. I should have
> been looking 4,000 years ago. :)

Horapollo was very explicit about this. He said the ancients believed water came right up from under the ground. Indeed, this also seems quite explicit in the Pyramid Texts as well. "Nun" was the "god" or "phenomenon of" water under the earth; he was the waters of the abyss. We simply refuse to take any of this literally. We think if Nun was a God then since "Gods" are obviously imaginary consciousnesses then it follows that num and the waters of the abyss are therefore imaginary. Besides everything was in reference to the afterlife so the waters of the abyss would have existed only in the afterlife according to our thinking.

But the reality is there are two huge aquifers under Giza and there are caves up to a mile and a half deep. "Giza" meant "Mouth of Caves" so the question of where the water that did exist on the pyramid pavement originated is may be solved. The question of how they built the pyramid has already been solved (Stones were pulled up one step at a time). Now we just need some way to put two and two together. What caused the water to come out of the caves?

Maybe every ancient author had everything just about right and we are the ones who are mistaken. We have enough trouble dragging stones downhill. Uphill is a great deal harder.