Clive Wrote:
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> Ronald:
>
> You use stones to build pyramids, and a project
> the size of Giza was not constructed by wetting
> and sticking your thumb in the air and praising
> the king because he wanted to be mummified.
>
> > of thousands of tangible artefacts that proof
> this
> > and none that proofs all the stuff that you
> > > are so eager to press forward.
>
> I'm going to ask you once...
> Give me a single example that would removes all
> doubt from my mind. But be prepared, because I
> will use this example of yours to prove you have
> assumed either by believing in other individual's
> beliefs or your own fantasy.
>
> > If you ignore that Ancient Egypt was a
> culture
> > that was obviously based on the worship of
> the
> > pharaoh, the god on Earth, and on the
> afterlife,
> > and that this is proved by tens of thousands
> of
> > artefacts (e.g. mummies), then you are
> > ridiculizing this great civilization.
>
> I am very aware of the AE culture...more than you
> imagine. But worship and beliefs did not erect
> these monuments...engineers, craftsmen, designers
> right down to the common man...that's what built
> them.
>
> And if you believe their work should go unnoticed
> then let me explain.
> The kings were probably aware of what these
> monuments truly represented and they were more
> than pleased to part of the program...starting
> from the Step through to Giza...their names and
> memories to be etched in history for eternity…and
> they are…!
>
> To have buried the kings within would have
> devastated the program, because those of the
> future would think they were built as tombs...and,
> like fools, we did...even without the mummies.
>
> Remember...recently, coffers have been opened at
> this site for the first time since antiquity and
> found to be void of any evidence of human remains.
>
>
> Now I want you to think a little harder.
> If you were king would you want to leave a passage
> leading directly to your place of rest. And to
> ensure people found the passage you left a big
> sign outside for then to realize where the
> entrance is located?
> I doubt if these kings were that foolish...don't
> you?
Clive,
You don’t even seem to have the common sense to understand that, since Khufu’s pyramid was sealed off, there was plenty of time – approx. 4550 years – for grave robbers to enter the pyramid and steal everything on their path, as they did, and has happened to almost all other pyramids and almost all other tombs in Ancient Egypt.
You wrote ; ‘If you were king would you want to leave a passage leading directly to your place of rest’.
You place this purposedly into the wrong context. The Grand Gallery had a symbolic meaning, as had the other galleries, the shafts, etc. And, on the contrary, the AE saved no efforts to block the KC off. The construction of the Grand Gallery must also have been necessary to be able to construct certain parts of the monument, maybe even the KC itself.
Ronald.