24th
10,000 BC and the Pyramids of Egypt
I was at the movie theater the other night for the epic Warner Bros movie - 10,000 BC. The movie itself wasn’t that bad, although it wasn’t that good either. But the sheer amount of stunning landscape and gorgeous CGI on the prehistoric animals were good enough to replace the all-too-familiar storyline — a big resemblance to the Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto.
But the most intriguing part of 10,000 BC is actually the Pyramids. The Egyptian Pyramids are one of the world mysteries, and yet even until today, nobody has an answer of how they were built. At least not a scientific one, or one that actually makes sense.
Read the following excerpt and then head to SacredSites.com for a lenghty but very disturbing article. “The Great Pyramid is constructed with approximately 2,300,000 limestone and granite blocks. Weighing between 2.5 and 50 tons each, these stone blocks had to be quarried from the earth. Herein lays our first unsolved problem. In the Cairo museum one can see several examples of simple copper and bronze saws, which Egyptologists claim are like those utilized in the cutting and shaping of the pyramid blocks. These tools present a problem. On the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, copper and bronze have a hardness of 3.5 to 4, while limestone has a hardness of 4 to 5 and granite of 5 to 6. The known tools would only barely cut through limestone and would be useless with granite. No archaeological examples of iron tools are found in early dynastic Egypt, yet even if they were, the best steels today have a hardness of only 5.5 and thus are inefficient for cutting granite. Some years ago Sir Flinders Petrie, one of the “fathers” of Egyptology proposed that the pyramid blocks had been cut with long saw blades studded with diamonds or corundum. But this idea presents problems too. The cutting of millions of blocks would require millions of rare and expensive diamonds and corundum, which constantly wear out and require replacement. It has been suggested that the limestone blocks were somehow cut with solutions of citric acid or vinegar, yet these very slow-acting agents leave the surface of the limestone pitted and rough, unlike the beautifully smooth surface found on the casing stones, and these agents are completely useless for the cutting of granite. The truth is, we have no idea how the blocks were actually quarried.”
The stone is actually that big, almost 3/4 of regular human size.