Most of them are lunatic fringe stuff. What Hawass himself used to call the work of "pyramidiots."
Still, one has to ask oneself why civilizations build enormous structures? Stonehenge? Gobekli Tepe? Nan Madol? Some sort of religious significance coupled with a desire of the powers-that-be to compel the people to engage in some sort of civil engineering prject?
The Tombs-only theory suggests that on Day #1 of a king's reign they started building his pyramid. And then they hoped that the fucker lived enough to complete it? And there is the rub. They insist the Great Pyramid was built in 20 years ( more on that later ) and the problem there is that Egyptologists have also estimated that the average length of a pharaonic reign was 10 years. The first three kings of the 5th Dynasty ruled for 7, 13 and 5 years. Assuming everyone shouts "Long Live The King" on his ascension to the throne why would they assume that he'd be dead in 5 years?
Perhaps not so coincidentally, Userkaf, founder of the 5th Dynasty has this for a pyramid:
![[Image: userkaf-3.jpg?w=497]](https://egyptsites.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/userkaf-3.jpg?w=497)
No one is going to mistake it for the Giza Pyramids.
As far as the GP goes, there are 2.5 million blocks in it. The math is daunting.
2,500,000 million blocks divided by 20 years equals 125,000 blocks placed per year.
125,000 divided by 365 days in a year equals 342.46 (let's round off to 342) blocks placed per day.
342 divided by 24 hours in a day equals 14 blocks per hour or basically one every 4 and a half minutes.
That is a ridiculous enough schedule but it makes the ludicrous assumption that they worked 24/7 365 per year.
They had no floodlights so they needed daylight to work. Assume because it is so far south that the daylight portion of the day was 12 hours long. You now double the amount of time needed so sticking with the 20 year figure means one block every 2 minutes.
But the Egyptologists themselves claim that the work was mainly done by laborers who were released from farming duties during the Nile flood period. For the sake of argument let's say that's six months. Now you are down to a block every minute. Now to be fair, there would have been a contingent of masons, quarrymen, support staff, engineers, etc who were on site full time and it is fair to assume that they would have been working on building up an inventory of stones for the laborers to move when they got back. That would save time but then you also have to allow for the work crews to gather ( faster to travel with the current than against it ) at the site and to get trained and up to speed in moving heavy stones without killing themselves. Aside from all that we still have no idea what kind of a ramp they used to actually move the stones and someone would have had to build the ramp.
1 stone quarried, shaped, transported and fitted every minute in order to meet the 20 year time frame is flat-out fucking absurd. Yet, this is the equation we are told to work with:
4th Dynasty Egyptians + copper and stone technology + muscle-power + 20 years = one pyramid.
Any one of those conditions can be attacked, Shel. I have my eye on the first. The Ancient Aliens crowd goes after the second and third. If you attack the 20 years then the Egyptologists shriek because they are already far enough out on a limb because of the life expectancy issue mentioned above. The only thing we know is that the pyramid is there but the Tombs and Tombs only bit is dogma.
Still, one has to ask oneself why civilizations build enormous structures? Stonehenge? Gobekli Tepe? Nan Madol? Some sort of religious significance coupled with a desire of the powers-that-be to compel the people to engage in some sort of civil engineering prject?
The Tombs-only theory suggests that on Day #1 of a king's reign they started building his pyramid. And then they hoped that the fucker lived enough to complete it? And there is the rub. They insist the Great Pyramid was built in 20 years ( more on that later ) and the problem there is that Egyptologists have also estimated that the average length of a pharaonic reign was 10 years. The first three kings of the 5th Dynasty ruled for 7, 13 and 5 years. Assuming everyone shouts "Long Live The King" on his ascension to the throne why would they assume that he'd be dead in 5 years?
Perhaps not so coincidentally, Userkaf, founder of the 5th Dynasty has this for a pyramid:
No one is going to mistake it for the Giza Pyramids.
As far as the GP goes, there are 2.5 million blocks in it. The math is daunting.
2,500,000 million blocks divided by 20 years equals 125,000 blocks placed per year.
125,000 divided by 365 days in a year equals 342.46 (let's round off to 342) blocks placed per day.
342 divided by 24 hours in a day equals 14 blocks per hour or basically one every 4 and a half minutes.
That is a ridiculous enough schedule but it makes the ludicrous assumption that they worked 24/7 365 per year.
They had no floodlights so they needed daylight to work. Assume because it is so far south that the daylight portion of the day was 12 hours long. You now double the amount of time needed so sticking with the 20 year figure means one block every 2 minutes.
But the Egyptologists themselves claim that the work was mainly done by laborers who were released from farming duties during the Nile flood period. For the sake of argument let's say that's six months. Now you are down to a block every minute. Now to be fair, there would have been a contingent of masons, quarrymen, support staff, engineers, etc who were on site full time and it is fair to assume that they would have been working on building up an inventory of stones for the laborers to move when they got back. That would save time but then you also have to allow for the work crews to gather ( faster to travel with the current than against it ) at the site and to get trained and up to speed in moving heavy stones without killing themselves. Aside from all that we still have no idea what kind of a ramp they used to actually move the stones and someone would have had to build the ramp.
1 stone quarried, shaped, transported and fitted every minute in order to meet the 20 year time frame is flat-out fucking absurd. Yet, this is the equation we are told to work with:
4th Dynasty Egyptians + copper and stone technology + muscle-power + 20 years = one pyramid.
Any one of those conditions can be attacked, Shel. I have my eye on the first. The Ancient Aliens crowd goes after the second and third. If you attack the 20 years then the Egyptologists shriek because they are already far enough out on a limb because of the life expectancy issue mentioned above. The only thing we know is that the pyramid is there but the Tombs and Tombs only bit is dogma.
