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Originally Posted by afterburn 549
If the pyramids were around B4 the flood they would be full of silt or there was no flood, or, as many believe the Egyptians built them.
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First of all, the Great Flood mentioned in the Bible wasn't global. Most likely a regional event, like maybe the Mediterranean breaching the Bosporus and creating or enlarging what is now the Black Sea.
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Originally Posted by afterburn 549
No matter how the math is done, they would take longer to build then most of the royalty lived.
Being a block would have to go into place something like every 3 minutes to "getter" done in 20 years.
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New theories on the construction of the Great Pyramid suggest that it may not be made up of solid blocks all the way thru after all. The new thinking goes on to say that the outer 'skin' of the pyramid is indeed made up of solid stone blocks...maybe several courses deep...but the inner core is composed mostly of unused stone and the rubble left over from dressing the precisely-cut outer blocks. The final shaping of the outer blocks would've resulted in massive quantities of scrap material, yet there is no evidence of such debris anywhere near the pyramid site.
One of the real astounding aspects of pyramid construction is the level of organization required for a project of such immense scale. Tens of thousands of mostly-illiterate workers had to be trained, housed, fed and supervised so that their efforts combined seamlessly to produce the result that we see today. Try managing a half-dozen sub-contractors to remodel or build a house these days and you'll see what the ancient Egyptians were up against.
It's also been suggested that the Great Pyramid at Giza was actually a site for religious ceremony rather than for a burial...thus no interior decorations as found in the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
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Originally Posted by afterburn 549
Why do they continue to call the lost treasure of Oak Island just that, when it is perfectly obvious it was a mining operation long ceased...
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It's because the Lagina brothers sold the History Channel a bill of goods and convinced them to bring their cameras out to film them trying to dig up some kind of "treasure". More reality TV shenanigans. The Oak Island site is most likely either an old mining operation as you suggest, or a salt processing facility. Back in the 18th century, salt was a valuable commodity and heavily taxed by the government. Oak Island was sufficiently remote at the time to enable salt to be processed and sold without attracting the attention of govt. tax collectors. This is all very similar to the way moonshiners still operate today in remote parts of the Ozarks.
How the heck was anyone back in the day supposed to recover this "treasure" anyway, if dozens of attempts at digging it up with modern equipment have all failed?