DwayneD.L.Rabon said:
Ok, who built the pyrimids is very intresting, as there are pyrmids appearntly all over the earth at different locations, which where all built by people who are some how missing and not avilable to exsplain the proccess,
Missing? Their descendants are still there. Though they don't build pyramids any longer. It is pyr
amids, by the way. As to how & who, the methods are clear. Each of the major pyramid building societies weren't able to keep their methods secret. They used ropes, ramps and levers. They built them as representations of grandiosity and symbolic of mountains. That they are representative of mountains and volcanos is clearest in Mesoamerican architecture.
DwayneD.L.Rabon said:
The one thing that is clear abotu humans of the past is that they have no reason for which to build out of stone, the resources of the world are far to abundant in their time to even have to consider building out of stone.
Which betrays your ignorance on the subject. Stone was the only durable building material in Egypt. The only trees available were the date palms, which weren't strong enough or abundant enough to build with any grandiosity or permanence. Indeed, it would have been the worst material for any of the pyramid cultures to build with for funerary/temple purposes because of the grave goods and caches that were deposited in them. The idea was to create a structure that was impenetrable that would last forever so that robbers couldn't steal the loot. They did anyway, but it would have been far simpler to penetrate a wooden or mudbrick structure.
The pyramids in Egypt are simply an evolution in the mudbrick designs of mastabas, the likely innovation of Imohtep, who designed the Step-Pyramid of Djoser.
DwayneD.L.Rabon said:
The event that humans took to building out of stone demonstrates either a freak occurance, or a socially advanced society, that is willing to labor exstensivly in stone work regardless of the abundant free resources avilable that could be gathered,
Again, the 'abundant free resources' logic doesn't work. But they were, indeed, advanced societies -complex and stratified with social hierarchies that could manage huge, labor-intensive public works projects. The key here is that each of these societies believed in the association of their elites with the divine. Their leaders were gods on earth.
DwayneD.L.Rabon said:
the fact that this happens world wide almost defines that there is a social ability to communicate around the world that results in the building of pyrmid structures.
Bullshit. It implies that people have some of the same innate belief mechanisms that create a desire for grandiosity and associations of the elites with divinity. It implies that the pyramid is a common sense structure that is mathematically logical for societies that haven't mastered complex architectural devices. Corbel arches are found in both Egypt and Mesoamerica because the builders/designers weren't sure how the distribution of weight of the rest of the pyramid would affect the tombs below. The pyramid's design allows for it to buid up for size without toppling, so
gravity is implied as a common factor. Moreover, the pyramid is a symbolic representation of the mountain, something that humans have revered the world over in all societies where mountains had bee present.
There is no need for "global communication" and to believe such nonesense is simply stupid.
DwayneD.L.Rabon said:
hence it appears that there was a advanced society to many observing the different unexsplaned structures of prymids.
Poppycock. The speculations of the undereducated. Try reading some
genuine books on the subject and lay off the woo-woo sites on the internet, then get back to us.
DwayneD.L.Rabon said:
...this means that the prymids where by all means built to serve a purpose, a functional purpose, which as of present is condisered to be unknown, although there are many ideas about its functional purpose, the mystery of building the prymids has been not only in its construction but also in its function.
Complete rubbish. Not only did the builders of both the Egyptian and the Maya pyramids
write down their purposes, the bodies of their elites were
left there for us to find with all their grave goods! The progression and evolution of the pyramids in both Egypt and Mesoamerica are very clear in the archaeological record and the purposes of the early structures are, likewise, clear. The constructions and purposes are mysteries only to the undereducated. Go read a book.
Brewer & Teeter: Egypt and the Egyptians
Smith: The Art and Achitecture of Ancient Egypt
Wilson: Culture of Ancient Egypt
DwayneD.L.Rabon said:
After all this has been considered we have to ask, where did these people go!!!
More ignorance. They didn't "go" anywhere. Their societies collapsed because, in part, of their wasteful spending and military conquest. The Egyptian peoples, the Maya, the Aztecs, the Inca... they're still there.
Like I said: read a
real book.
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