Dusty Conspiracies: The Great Pyramid Posted on March 9, 2022March 14, 2024 by Dusty For more of my random posts on random topics (PSAs, Ads, music, miscellany), click HERE: “Man fears time, but time fears the pyramids.”– Arab proverb. Conspiracy Theory: The Great Pyramid was built by some group other than the ancient Egyptians and Egyptologists are covering up or downplaying the evidence of this. Among the most popular conspiracy theories in the world is that the Great Pyramid was built by parties hitherto unknown. The theoretical builders range from extra terrestrials, to Enoch (from the Bible), to ancient Atlantis, or some combination of those things. Is the dispute reasonable? Put this another way, is the archaeological evidence that the Great Pyramid was constructed by the Dynastic Egyptians so compelling that alternative theories are unreasonable to consider? Is the archaeological evidence that someone other than the Egyptians so convincing that the continued belief in the mainstream narrative indicative of a coverup? Let’s examine some of the evidence. This is certainly not comprehensive of the Great Pyramid’s mysteries but it covers a lot of ground. Is it possible to carbon date the construction? No. Stone cannot be carbon dated and the continuous presence of human activity on the site for the last five thousand years makes it difficult to isolate organic material to the time of the pyramid’s construction. Here are some of The Great Pyramid of Giza’s basics. We’ll look one-by-one at these things and decide whether it was possible for ancient people to have achieved this. The Great Pyramid of Giza was constructed with two million stone blocks weighing on average between 2.5 and 15 tons each. The limestone blocks – which comprise most of the blocks used – were quarried 8 miles away in Tura. The granite was quarried from as far as 500 miles away. Dozens of the individual blocks weigh as much as 70 tons. Could the Egyptians at the time of the Pharaoh Khufu have cut these blocks? This is a hotly contested point of debate. While archaeology has generally been able to provide examples of how it *might* have been done, the methodology is not known for certain. You can observe videos HERE, HERE and HERE and HERE demonstrating potential techniques. On the one hand, these techniques generally seem to run counter to the need for an industrial scale of production that is needed. On the other, though, the Egyptians had a large army of craftsmen doing the work. The army of craftsmen seem to be an answer to most of the “how” questions – though admittedly many do not think this is an adequate answer – but an army does not explain The Great Pyramid’s unique precision. It is one thing for an army of men with water, sand, and bronze saws to cut blocks. It is another thing for them to do so with modern precision. + This section of the debate is somewhat subjective. How do you even define modern precision? It’s a term that presumes an answer. If the work is sufficiently good, then it is deemed to be “modern” and thus not possible for ancient people. + It is also worth remembering in this section of the debate that the most precisely cut stones are fewer in number than the less precisely cut ones – meaning that it is much less unreasonable to believe that they could have been done with some great care over a long span of time. A team of craftsmen shaping a couple hundred granite stones to near perfection is much different than a team of craftsmen shaping 2 million such stones. + For examples of the “precise” cuts at the Great Pyramid of Giza, look HERE and HERE and HERE. For other precisely cut granite objects in Egypt, look HERE and HERE and HERE. CONCLUSION: I believe that evidence suggests the ancient Egyptians *could* have performed the cuts. The scale of the stone-cutting is such that – if given years – craftsmen could have accomplished the work. Efficiency is not as much at issue with the precision cut granite stones because there were fewer of them by far. That said, the achievement would have been accomplished with an effort so significant that I do not find it unreasonable to question whether it was the Dynastic Egyptians who did the work. Could the Egyptians at the time of the Pharaoh Khufu have transported and raised these blocks? Thanks to the recent discovery of a 4,500 year old papyrus scroll, we actually know (see HERE and HERE) how the ancient Egyptians moved limestone blocks from their quarry site in Tura. The scroll includes logbooks of the work done and details the daily lives of the workers. So… case closed, right? This proves the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid and that Egyptologists have been correct all along as to who did it and when… right? Not exactly. Despite some news reporting which says otherwise, the logbook does not detail how the much heavier granite was moved to the site from MUCH farther away. It also does not answer the question of whether the Great Pyramid project was original or whe...