The problem that the Egyptology club has constructed for itself is the "tombs-and-tombs-only" dogma. Even that does not stand up to close examination because the average reign of a pharaoh was something like 10 years....and you had guys like Ramesses II (67 years and Amenhotep III ( c 40 years ) inflating the average.
The 3 Giza pyramids stand out like sore thumbs among the vast majority of Egyptian pyramids which look something like this:
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Pyramid of Unas, last king of the 5th Dynasty....it's basically a rubble pile.
I believe it was Graham Hancock who made the observation that it appears as if the Egyptians went from building the equivalent of a horse and buggy to a Porsche 911 and then regressed back to horse and buggy technology in the course of about 1 century.
I have my own doubts about this whole scenario but I don't buy the time line at all. Lose the idea that these were tombs and the whole 20 year thing goes with it. Then, like the cathedrals of Europe, you can take as long as you like to build them.
The 3 Giza pyramids stand out like sore thumbs among the vast majority of Egyptian pyramids which look something like this:
Pyramid of Unas, last king of the 5th Dynasty....it's basically a rubble pile.
I believe it was Graham Hancock who made the observation that it appears as if the Egyptians went from building the equivalent of a horse and buggy to a Porsche 911 and then regressed back to horse and buggy technology in the course of about 1 century.
I have my own doubts about this whole scenario but I don't buy the time line at all. Lose the idea that these were tombs and the whole 20 year thing goes with it. Then, like the cathedrals of Europe, you can take as long as you like to build them.
