4500 years before the pyramids

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by Rtrorkt

I’m still waiting to see what they discover on Oak Island

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Mud and rocks.

Yup, and that's about all they'll ever find there too. The Lagina Bros. have sold the History Channel a bill of goods and made themselves a pile of money on it. I go with the theory that Oak Island was a salt processing operation back when salt was needed as a meat & fish preservative, and as such, was valuable and heavily taxed. The then-remote location kept the operation under the radar and avoided the tax man.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by rcooled

The richly-decorated tombs found in the Valley of the Kings were built over 1,000 years after the pyramids. Many changes in ancient Egyptian culture and beliefs took place during that time span.

Architect Jean-Pierre Houdin has an interesting theory about how the pyramids may have been constructed.
Here's a short video that touches on the basics of his idea ↓



And here's a longer version that goes into much more detail.
Quite intriguing if you're interested in such things ↓

So they're NOT landing pads for Go'auld space ships?

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

So they're NOT landing pads for Go'auld space ships?

Probably not...

Not the craziest idea that I've heard about the pyramids though. Someone I know is convinced that a mirror image of the Great Pyramid is buried in the sand directly below the one we can see. As you would expect, his logic gets a bit fuzzy when he tries explaining how this came to be

[masraum]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

So they're NOT landing pads for Go'auld space ships?

[masraum]

Yep, lots of pyramids around the world, but seems like that may have been due to that being the best way to built something really big. Not necessarily a sign that the ideas were exchanged from one group to the next around the world throughout the eons or that aliens did it.

[Cajundaddy]

The stone monolith period predates most of the pyramids and similar techniques were used world wide. Machu Picchu was originally considered entirely Inca but some archeologists think that the largest stones were in place long before the Inca civilization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baalbek

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by red-beard

Are you expecting Geraldo Rivera will finally find something?

I have almost worn out my VHS tape...anticipation and popcorn every time!

Imagine if we could actually read the "ancients' language"..... just wait 5K years....

101011101111100010110....

LOL

[Tervuren]

My point of intelligence getting wiped out rather than continual evolution.

https://www.ancient.eu/Indus_Script/

There is also another archaeological problem, what if writing systems existed but objects were used that did not survive.

Writing could be much older than is presently known when this possibility is considered.

When you read the article I linked, it makes an assumption that the written script developed in complexity, but what if instead the stamps and materials that carry it today became more proliferate with an expanding economy?

The script could have been in use prior to the artifacts that carry it, just on perishable materials that did not survive.

Until we get a time machine there is just a lot we won't know.

[Deschodt]

I remember thinking the same as this thread when watching the show "Life after people", I think. It doesn't take THAT long for any trace of civilization to completely disappear. Puts things in perspective. It's entirely possible there might have been something - even an advanced civilization of sorts - before the dinosaur era, and the ruins of that era are completely lost to us (and probaby in a pool of oil underground). Makes for good SCIFI anyway.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Rodsrsr

In other words cavemen were just men....

...that lived in caves

[Rodsrsr]

Originally Posted by masraum

...that lived in caves

The homeless of their time..

[Tervuren]

Originally Posted by Deschodt

I remember thinking the same as this thread when watching the show "Life after people", I think. It doesn't take THAT long for any trace of civilization to completely disappear. Puts things in perspective. It's entirely possible there might have been something - even an advanced civilization of sorts - before the dinosaur era, and the ruins of that era are completely lost to us (and probaby in a pool of oil underground). Makes for good SCIFI anyway.

There is a very amusing book called "motel of the mysteries".

If you find it in a library sometime check it out and take it home.

Rod, that varied. Some lived in caves seasonally.