The Bible, what's literal and what's not?

[superstarr]

Spelling Cairo wrong was the least of it. Yes, it was a bad source. That doesn't necessarily mean that it contained bad information, but, well, it did.

How do we truly know when such things are "discovered?" Obviously, they were discovered 4,000 years before you think they were.

I'm extremely skeptical about the idea that aliens showed up and taught the Egyptians how to build the pyramids. I assure you, I have read a great deal on the subject and there is no reason for me to believe that aliens are the source of their knowledge.

Just out of curiosity, what is it that they "suddenly knew" that wasn't discovered until 4,000 years later?

The "suddenly knew" thing was their ways of making the pyramids out of those millions of blocks that weighed tons of pounds and constructing structures like the pyramids themselves using complex mathematical concepts that weren't discovered until these past hundred years or so. Theories about them making the pyramids themselves are always contradicted in some manner. Unless they happen to have stumbled-upon the ideas out of nowhere, someone had to have told them. The hieroglyphics do indeed depict saying that they gained knowledge from beings of the skies, and you can't tell me that Osiris was the one who told them. Someone told them, but we just don't know who or what. Unless the heiroglyphics themselves are lying, which is doubtful.