There’s a Giant Flaw in Human History
- By sjastro
- Physical & Life Sciences
- 446 Replies
Its ironical you refer to common sense when you can’t tell us what technology was used let lone evidence for it, yet we have plentiful evidence of tools you deem impossible from a technological perspective such as chisels, adzes, saws, drills, knives and needles made from cooper.
Dolerite pounding stones were made from granite and temple and tomb reliefs show the ancient Egyptians used bow drills for a variety of operations and manual labour to transport stone blocks and obelisks over land.
Why should this inferior technology exist if doesn't work while there is not a shred of evidence for a superior technology whatever that may be?
Here is a simple quiz question, one man using your super-duper technology which is unknown can carve out a stone block in 5 minutes, compared to 1000 men working on 1000 blocks taking 24 hrs using copper chisels for each man to carve out a single block.
Which produces the greater number?
What should be blindingly obvious even though the single man has a vastly superior output rate, the total output from 1000 men using inferior technology is greater.
Classical writers and modern Egyptologists have numbered the workforce on the Great Pyramid composed of permanent skilled workers, seasonal labourers such as farmers and support staff composed of cooks, water carriers, logistics and transport teams as around 20,000 – 40,000.
Ancient Egypt was composed of a loose confederation of 42 regional districts or provinces known as nomes each run by a governor or nomarch.
In the early 4th dynasty the pharaohs had complete control over the nomarchs and were able to command a large workforce for pyramid construction recruited from the nomes. In later times the nomarchs became more independent as the pharaohs lost central authority resulting in a decline in the quality and size of pyramids.
Talk about a false equivalence, it took 10 years longer than planned to build the Opera House, due to last minute alterations in the shell design, political pressure to reduce costs and engineering problems that were encountered in producing a complicated unique structure.
By comparison Snefru had two goes at pyramid building before getting it right using a workforce of thousands in building a structure considerably less complicated than the Sydney Opera House.
Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story.
A characteristic of all pyramids today is the outer casing stones are largely gone. Instead of repairing and enhancing pyramids, the later dynastic Egyptians vandalized the pyramids removing the stones for their own monuments and buildings. The tradition was carried on by their Roman and Arab conquerors.
This has been explained to you which extends to art in general.
Old Kingdom art reached its pinnacle in the 4th dynasty along with pyramid building.
By the 7th and 8th dynasties the normarchs mentioned earlier had become independent of the pharaohs who became puppet rulers.
The normarchs began fighting amongst themselves leading to a period of protracted civil war and a collapse in civilization as evidenced by the serious decline in quality and quantity of art.
You can throw out a myriad of these examples but if you cannot show what technologies were used instead, your argument is nothing more than of personal incredulity and modern day snobbery against the ancients.For example here are a couple of examples that don't need 100s of men to make. Just maybe two and yet these examples just disappear and are never repreated with such quality.
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These saws are only around 2 or 3 feet long. This is all we have found in the records.
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