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To: alt.archaeology,sci.anthropology,soc.history.ancient,alt.history.ancient-egypt From: nenosed@news.apex.met.au (Ned Latham) Subject: Re: Kites used to build the pyramids? Date: 30 Jul 2001 14:59:51 GMT Colum wrote in <7p897.20790$Fk7.200416@news.indigo.ie>: > > Read on a little and.. > > "Theory dismissed > > Most scholars consider the idea laughable and cite archaeological > evidence showing that thousands of workers constructed earthen > ramps to haul the 5,000-pound blocks for the pyramids, built as > tombs for the ancient Pharaohs. The most wondrous thing here is that there are people who fall for crackpot notions like that one. > ``Just because something can be done that way, doesn't mean it was. > We'd know if they were built like that,'' said Lisa Schwappach, > curator of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose. Although > Schwappach acknowledges that one known Egyptian artifact resembles > a kite, she says evidence for the theory doesn't mesh with the > technologies surrounding the 4,000-year-old monuments. Egyptians > were expert sailors, but they never developed the wheel and used > only looped ropes as pulleys. " Moreover, they didn't have the materials from which to build a kite large enough to lift the blocks of stone they used, or strong enough to withstand the strain. No steel, no nylon, no revolving pulleys: they wouldn't even have *conceived* the idea of lifting huge weights with kites. ----snip---- Ned -- * Democracy means "the people rule". * * Fight for the power of assent. *
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