What's with all the pyramids??

by Crazyguy 21 Replies latest social current

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  Crazyguy

  The number of pyramids in the world just keep going up and up. An egyptoligist thinks using satellite scanning technology he has found the remnants of another 17 pyramids in the Egypt. In central and South American they keep finding more pyramids and in Java a couple of years ago they surmised that the riuns their was actually a step pyramid possible the oldest in the world.

  So what do you think all of these pyramids were all about? And why do you think that almost every major culture in the world back then was biulding pyramids?
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  OnTheWayOut

  Pyramids in different parts of the world differ from each other but generally have 4 (or 3) sides and have a wide base and a peak in the middle. Regardless of what ancient alien astronaut theorists (actual term) say, I think we will find that this style of building was easier for ancient people to go higher with.

  Early skyscrapers were made of massive concrete bases. They didn't appear massive because the building did not get narrow significantly as it went up, but the base was thick, doorways would reveal several feet in the wall. As time went by, the use of steel allowed the base to be no thicker than the rest of the building. But in ancient times, the same heavy material was used all the way up, so all they really knew was to start with a huge base and to get smaller the higher up they went.
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  John Aquila

  OnTheWayOut

  I think we will find that this style of building was easier for ancient people to go higher with. But in ancient times, the same heavy material was used all the way up, so all they really knew was to start with a huge base and to get smaller the higher up they went.

  Hey that's the best explanation I've heard yet. It's simple, it makes sense, and it's not filled with a lot of crock.
  
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  Giordano

  http://world-pyramids.com/en/world-pyramids/northern-america/monk-mound,-great-pyramid-of-the-usa.html

  There are a fair number of pyramids in the US:

  Of all ancient civilizations in North America, human hands have built no greater earthwork than the Monks Mound near East St. Louis, IL. The Mound Builders statesmanship, ambitious projects and workforce make them of the most important cultures of World history. Monks Mound is situated about a mile from the Mississippi River, just north of East St. Louis, Illinois, in central United States.

  The mound has dimensions of 92 feet in height, 951 feet (290 meters) long and 836 feet (255 meters) wide. Monks Mound base covers about 14.4 acres and has a volume of about 21,551,623 cubic feet (610274 cubic meters) and consists of more than 2.16 billion pounds of non-local soil types.

  Monks Mound included only colored soil that is not found in the surrounding alluvial floodplain........

  Soils were likely selected for their vivid color and brought in on rafts or on foot from hundreds of miles away.

  
  
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  WireRider

  That's the $10,000 question.

  Plus a buried pyramid in Scotland. There are hills in China that when seen from the air are square as if they hid them under dirt - but people, especially foreigners, are forbidden to go there. Try Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Egypt. Mexico. South America. Pumapunku in Bolivia. All cultures that would have no way to communicate, or travel, with each other have distinct similarities. Some uncovered ruins in Sumeria about 10,000 years old that have tablets of our solar system, including all proportionately sized planets in correct orbits. Even Pluto - that we didn't discover until about 1930.

  Look at the Giza Plateau, the pyramids are not quite in a straight line - a little bent, when the building and orientations are so exacting. It matches the same exactly with the layout of Teotihuacan in Mexico - a little bent, exactly the same way.
  

  Try watching "Ancient Aliens". I think you can google it for reruns. Really fascinating stuff. Good scenery. But I would not put too much stock in their conclusions - they have been debunked a lot for over reaching, and some lies. Still interesting to see - draw your own conclusions.
  
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  JeffT

  I read somebody (Archaeologist, Architect I can't remember now) who said that pyramids were common in ancient cultures because they're built already fallen down. Structurally, they're a pile of rocks with no where to go.
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  kairos

  WT is waiting to unveil a "hidden" pyramid under their remote controlled lake at Warwick. It contains "new light" on making more money without the R&F noticing. Really cool stuff...

  Seriously, though, pyramids are very interesting.
  It is a fact that they cannot be duplicated using modern methods, nor are the building methods completely understood. This not even fully explain the purpose of them.

  Mercury, the element, has been found in large quantities in some of them. Mercury is super weird. Do a little digging online.
  Then look at some of the hieroglyphs that depict "energy beams".

  I think civilization has had quite a few "resets" over the course of time.
  And I'm talking longer than 6,000 years ago, too!
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  Coded Logic

  It is a fact that they cannot be duplicated using modern methods

  Are you saying that we can't build pyramids today? What are you talking about?

  Mercury, the element, has been found in large quantities in some of them.

  Can you cite a credible source please?

  Then look at some of the hieroglyphs that depict "energy beams".

  Once again, can you cite a source? And how have you determined what is depicted is an energy beam? Doesn't that seem like the least likely explanation?
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  Crazyguy

  One would think the easiest explanation is that one of the earliest cultures maybe Egypt or Sumer started buildings pyramids and other cultures followed suit maybe to show they could do it better. But still why, why go to so much effort?
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  WireRider

  A lot of factors there.

  1) Why were they built? They aren't a house or office building. They are very large for what and for who?

  2) The precision of the stone blocks is unfathomable at that age of our understanding of human development. World class construction companies have said they would not even attempt to create such a building today. Some sites with 1000 ton blocks. And for what/who? How did they achieve such precision with out our modern day machines???

  3) Why did cultures all over the world independently develop such similarities with now way to communication with each other at all? No, it was not a planet wide pyramid competitions - you'd think so, but no.

  It really goes beyond they all did that own their own. There is a true black-out period around 0 BC/AD or BCE/CE where science and technology had a complete reset and started from scratch. Today no one can prove what the great pyramid is or how it was built. Sumerians documented Pluto 10,000 years ago - we just found it about 1930ish. How is it explained?