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Also please don’t look at it
There are also kings in the Middle East, and all over Asia and Africa.
I’m sorry to be a wet rag but the comic is simply innacurate.
There are still plenty of kings in the world.
Haagel@lemmings.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Pope told by student to stop using anti-LGBTQ languageEnglish161·1 year agoWhat are some of the harmful things that he’s attached his name to? I’m out of the loop…
The real singers were two men and a woman, if I recall correctly…
Haagel@lemmings.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Sticky trick: new glue spray kills plant pests without chemicalsEnglish52·1 year agoIsn’t that Lamarckism? If I recall correctly, that’s an older model of evolution that is not commonly recognized anymore.
Haagel@lemmings.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Egypt pyramids: Scientists may have solved mystery behind constructionEnglish31·1 year agoI swear that I’m not trying to be obtuse, but I have a lot of doubts.
What kind of ropes and wooden sleds, manufactured in 4000 BC, can move 80 ton stones? There are tensile limits…
Haagel@lemmings.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Egypt pyramids: Scientists may have solved mystery behind constructionEnglish2·1 year agoI’ve also heard of this. It seems to me that this theory should be easy to confirm with some sort x-ray or radar or lidar or something, so that we can see the shape of the structure beneath the superficial layers…
Haagel@lemmings.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Egypt pyramids: Scientists may have solved mystery behind constructionEnglish8·1 year agoSource? I’m not doubting you. I’m just surprised that the government would limit research, probably for political reasons.
Haagel@lemmings.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Egypt pyramids: Scientists may have solved mystery behind constructionEnglish101·1 year agoIt seems like you’re out for blood, my friend.
I’ve cited three academic scientists in this conversation. You’re welcome to check them out if you want.
Haagel@lemmings.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Egypt pyramids: Scientists may have solved mystery behind constructionEnglish10·1 year agoI don’t know, my friend. I’m not an archeologist or Egyptologist. I’m just an enthusiast who has read a dozen conflicting theories.
Haagel@lemmings.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Egypt pyramids: Scientists may have solved mystery behind constructionEnglish9·1 year agoYeah, I remember this guy. He claimed that Stonehenge in England could have been built like this. The pyramids of Giza are much more complex, of course. Still, I think it’s entirely possible that the pyramids were built using very clever engineering principles that were forgotten and that we don’t need because we have cranes and power tools and hydraulics, etc.
Haagel@lemmings.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Egypt pyramids: Scientists may have solved mystery behind constructionEnglish163·1 year agoThey also depict gods with the heads of jackals and birds, beings from other planets, their conception of the afterlife, pornography, and obviously exaggerated claims about the power and influence of the Pharoahs.
I’m saying that we should be skeptical. dubitante omnibus, as Descartes would say…
Haagel@lemmings.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Egypt pyramids: Scientists may have solved mystery behind constructionEnglish121·1 year agoI never suggested that they couldn’t.
Personally, I don’t think that the “brute force” argument is the best. I think it’s arguing from ignorance.
Haagel@lemmings.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Egypt pyramids: Scientists may have solved mystery behind constructionEnglish10·1 year agoAgain, there are hundreds of articles about the adjacent work camps. Please look at the publications of Zahi Hawass, chief archeologist of Egypt, and Amihai Mazar, a professor of archeology in Jerusalem.
Most claim that there could have been up to ten thousand workers. Some claim that the number of workers was as low as 1600.
Haagel@lemmings.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Egypt pyramids: Scientists may have solved mystery behind constructionEnglish291·1 year ago“The study was done by Christian Wagner and colleagues at Saarland University in Germany, along with researchers in the Netherlands, Iran and France. The team was inspired by an ancient Egyptian wall painting showing a huge statue being hauled across the sand on a sledge in about 1800 BC. The painting has a detail that has long puzzled Egyptologists: a worker who appears to be pouring water onto the sand in front of the sledge while others appear to be carrying water to replenish his supply.”
https://physicsworld.com/a/did-slippery-sand-help-egyptians-build-the-pyramids/
There are hundreds of articles about this theory. It was all the rage a few years ago.
Haagel@lemmings.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Egypt pyramids: Scientists may have solved mystery behind constructionEnglish327·1 year agoYes. I’m familiar with this image. Some scientists claim that when just the right amount of water is poured over sand it reduces the friction by about 30%.
Some also claim that there were not hundreds of thousands of laborers at the Giza pyramids, based on evidence discovered in the work camps near the site.
I’m 38 years old and I think I’ve read about a new theory every year of my life…
Modern Mongolia, perhaps. The Golden Horde of Genghis Khan was not so tolerant!