Castles Made of Sand 2

The Great Pyramid has over two million blocks of stone. Conventional egyptology claim that the Great Pyramid was constructed in less than twenty years. They say this of course because they also claim that it was constructed to house the body of the Pharoah Khufu (Cheops). Lets pretend for a moment they are correct about that and ignore the fact that there is basically no hard evidence to support this. Lets do some simple math. To move two and a half million blocks of stone within twenty years you would have 7300 days in which to do this. 2,500,000/7300 = 342.5 That means they had to move 343 blocks per day in order to accomplish this. Lets break it down further. 343 blocks/24 hrs = 14.2. This means they had to move 14.2 blocks per hour. Oh and that's working twenty four hours a day, but lets not forget these people had no electricity and could only work during daylight hours so lets divide that time frame by 2 and what your left with is 28.4 blocks per hour. Just to be clear that's quarrying a block that is several tons in weight, carving it, smoothing out the edges, hauling it to the work site, lifting it several hundreds of feet in the air, and fitted into place perfectly so as not to leave more than a paper thin seam all in just a little over two minutes! Actually it's 127 seconds. I'll time you. Ready?......Go! Ok now do that two and a half million times in a row without making any mistakes and your starting to understand what it is were saying here. Just to illustrate the point further we are talking about blocks of stone that look like this.

Oh yeah and by the way all they were using were hemp ropes, stone hand mallets and bronze chisels. They teach this.....to adults.....in college. That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. A very similar pyramid was built in Central Mexico named the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan (Below)

It is estimated that this pyramid took 150 years to complete and yet it isn't quite half as tall as the Great Pyramid of Giza. (Click on it!) Here we see a model of the Great Pyramid overlayed onto the Pyramid of the Sun (Below Right)

Something is not right here. The point is that the these so called "academics" in egyptology are so bound to their way of thinking that they are willing to grant super human powers to people rather than admit they may be wrong about why and perhaps even when the pyramid was built. Lets not lose sight of the fact that if this really were a tomb the guy who was going to be buried in it would probably put his name on it. He didn't. There are actually no carvings or engravings anywhere in the entire massive structure, nothing, not one word. This would be like building a headstone the size of the empire state building and then leaving it completely blank. Sorry I don't buy it. There is of course one place where the word Khufu appears. In red paint graffiti supposedly written by one of the "work crews" that constructed the great pyramid on a block that is in a hidden and sealed chamber that was discovered by Col. Howard Vyse in 1837. It was only possible to reach these "relief chambers" after the use of dynamite. Below we see where this graffiti is located. Pretty much exactly on the spot marked "Weight Relieving Chambers".

Above is the royal cartouche of Khufu found by Vyse. Keep in mind that the rest of the room looks like this.

It looks like that because after 1837 anybody with enough money was allowed to waltz in and write whatever they damned well pleased, defacing the only surviving structure that was one of 7 wonders of the ancient world. The above "cartouche" is quite literally the entire body of evidence that supports the idea that Khufu constructed the pyramid to be his tomb....I'm not joking. There is yet another problem with this tomb theory. As you may or may not already know when it comes to royal burial chambers there is a long standing tradition to adorn it with many trimmings and trappings. To some degree these items vary. Gold, jewels, even favorite pets have been found alongside their former masters and yet there are certain things one can expect to find in any burial site. Chief among them a dead body. Curiously enough in the case of the burial chamber of the Pharaoh Khufu we find none of these artifacts, we also find no body. In fact no body has ever been found in any of the three great pyramids at Giza. To say the least this is a bit troubling when making the argument that the entire complex was constructed to bury a body that isnt there. There is of course the possibility that the tomb was sacked and all the loot, including the corpse, was stolen. Keep in mind however that when opening the Great Pyramid European explorers required large amounts of dynamite to blast their way in. All sarcasm aside this is indicative of the type of thinking that has shaped most peoples understandings about the marvel that is the Giza Plateau, and in a very real sense how the entire period of our history that we think of as the ancient world. Academics relying on reputation rather than solid evidence to support their ideas is in my mind no longer acceptable in the information age. These were not foolish and brutish peoples. They were scentists and engineers, astronomers and mathematicians. Philosophers and priests. These were people who lived in peace and sustained their culture for literally thousands of years. They left behind the most inspiring, complicated and glorious monuments that we as human beings have ever produced. Its high time we took a more realistic and rational approach to learing about them. In a time where our own society seems directionsless and lost perhaps it is by looking to the past that we will find our way into the future.