Re:A coherent story of Stonehenge may be beginning to emerge
by rando444 on Friday July 21, 2017 @05:51PM
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Asking for references, but providing none of your own?
Saying stuff like:
Herodotus is by far not the only source of information we have about the Old Kingdom
and
We see exactly such a progression in the first four or so pyramids.
You're not only not providing references, you're not even supporting your argument at all..
Re:A coherent story of Stonehenge may be beginning to emerge
by pvg on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:40PM
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I didn't ask for references, someone else did and then this person spouted a whole bunch of obviously inaccurate stuff. You can hit the relevant pages on wikipedia and trivially verify that no egyptologist thinks Egyptians during the fourth dynasty lived in the stone age or had barely developed written language (and for that, I did put in a helpful link). The rest is exactly the same - uncontroversial consensus stuff you can get from wikipedia - I don't really need to defend egyptology with meticulous citations.
You can also google the weird claims made by this poster and you'll find that underground lakes below the great pyramid, 'legend of Enoch' and a strange obsession with Herodotus invariably appear on crackpot sites. It seems reasonable to ask for better references for such claims.
None of these are 'known for certain' and they are at odds with archeological evidence and well-accepted egyptology.
Cheops lived in 26th century BC. This is Stone Age territory. A time where humans still didn't master metalworks, and understanding of mathematics and written language was very poor.
Egyptians at the time had copper tools, two different writing systems, papyrus.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ancient-egypt-shipping...
Herodotus traveled to Egypt and later made his claim in 5th century BC.
Herodotus is by far not the only source of information we have about the Old Kingdom.
Up until 820 AD the pyramid was completely closed off by the granite plates that covered all external walls, and an Arab caliph Al-Mamoun broke most of them and found a way in
You can easily find references to egyptologists who believe most pyramids were robbed by the Middle Kingdom.
On top of everything that most people know, it also has an underground chambers with an artificial lake
The only reference I can find to that is on crackpot sites. Do you have anything better?
Shouldn't we see technological progression, not regression in a rich developing society
We see exactly such a progression in the first four or so pyramids.
What I think is that we have a serious case of Cargo Cult where emperors try to emulate the greatness of the pyramid.
Again, do you have any decent references to all this stuff? Because otherwise it's 'internet person vs all of Egyptology' which is not very convincing.