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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Re: Contempt prior to investigation (pyramids)
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 12:28:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 12:28:41 1986
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>>>The Egyptian "merchants code".
>>
>>You'll have to explain this.
>
>In the "Valley of the Kings" clay tablets containing cuniform tablets
>seem to describe orders for building materials, and procedures for
>building the pyramids which seem to contradict the "stones on rollers"
>theory.  Floatation is described, and water floatation was possible
>in the valley, but it is also described in an area where there is
>little water.

No mystery there.  There are yearly floods in Egypt, remember?  Work
on the pyramids was done during the flood months, since the labor was
available (no farming can be done then.)  The building materials were
floated to the base of the site, then rollers and ramps were used from
there.  They weren't stupid--that's the easiest way to do it.   The 
pyramid sites, by the way, were selected to be just barely out of the 
flood area--close enough to float the stones.  (The Egyptians didn't
build many temples, pyramids, tombs, etc. in the area that was flooded,
since that would take away ariable land--a very rare commodity there.)

That's been known for quite a while.  Maybe you need to read some
real sources on Egyptology?  (I won't comment on the "cuniform" statement.
Sigh.)
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                                     Sue Brezden
                                     ihnp4!drutx!slb

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