There's a whole argument about how a lot of the really megalithic sites mirror the path of the nile but are miles away. The sphinx also has erosion around the base and enclosure that would suggest sustained running water from heavy rainfall, which would mean the sphinx would have to have been there thousands of years before dynastic egypt.
They base the ages of the pyramids around artifacts that they found nearby, since you can't carbon date stone blocks. The issue is, if there was a civilization around 6 or 7 thousand years BC, what would still be left? Anything wooden would have rotten away, 10,000 years from now there's going to be very little evidence of any technology we have now left for people to find. There's no way to know what life was like 10,000 years ago, and a lot of the archaeologists that were around when people started studying egypt wanted to make a name for themselves for "discovering" something, so somebody lookng to build a reputation would at least be tempted to lie if they couldn't find anything.
Small step pyramids are built around the bases of pyramids at giza. Why would they build a giant pyramid in relation to the position of smaller, unimpressive pyramids?
"if there was a civilization around 6 or 7 thousand years BC, what would still be left?" If it's a proper civilization then an incredible amount. Their are archaeological sites around from pre-neolithic era. If it's a civilization that supposedly built the pyramids then there should be an ungodly amount of writing left over. Plus we know from inscriptions and stuff who built a lot of the pyramids. We have literature telling us about people like Sneferu who built them.
You're right about there being no way to know what life is about 10,000 years ago, tbf, without literature. You can understand certain things but not others (Hawke's ladder of inference).
The pyramids aren't just burial sites, dude; they're great monuments of prestige, too."Why would they build a giant pyramid in relation to the position of smaller, unimpressive pyramids?", why build a pyramid at all? It's clearly not a pragmatic thing to do.
We have inscriptions in the pyramids showing they were for burial. We have ancient authors from different cultures showing they were for burial. We've found an ungodly amount of mummies in them, showing they were for burial. We have literal texts from ancient Egypt showing they were from burial. There's no doubt they served that function. You're perfectly right that not all of them were used for burial, but a hell of a lot of them certainly were, and unless you're someone like Sneferu then you're not going to be able to build a shit loads of practice pyramids.
Also, there are archaeological techniques to date things like pottery, we know when the civilization was about. There are no remains of a great prior civilization that built the pyramids.
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There's a whole argument about how a lot of the really megalithic sites mirror the path of the nile but are miles away. The sphinx also has erosion around the base and enclosure that would suggest sustained running water from heavy rainfall, which would mean the sphinx would have to have been there thousands of years before dynastic egypt.
They base the ages of the pyramids around artifacts that they found nearby, since you can't carbon date stone blocks. The issue is, if there was a civilization around 6 or 7 thousand years BC, what would still be left? Anything wooden would have rotten away, 10,000 years from now there's going to be very little evidence of any technology we have now left for people to find. There's no way to know what life was like 10,000 years ago, and a lot of the archaeologists that were around when people started studying egypt wanted to make a name for themselves for "discovering" something, so somebody lookng to build a reputation would at least be tempted to lie if they couldn't find anything.
Small step pyramids are built around the bases of pyramids at giza. Why would they build a giant pyramid in relation to the position of smaller, unimpressive pyramids?
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"if there was a civilization around 6 or 7 thousand years BC, what would still be left?" If it's a proper civilization then an incredible amount. Their are archaeological sites around from pre-neolithic era. If it's a civilization that supposedly built the pyramids then there should be an ungodly amount of writing left over. Plus we know from inscriptions and stuff who built a lot of the pyramids. We have literature telling us about people like Sneferu who built them.
You're right about there being no way to know what life is about 10,000 years ago, tbf, without literature. You can understand certain things but not others (Hawke's ladder of inference).
The pyramids aren't just burial sites, dude; they're great monuments of prestige, too."Why would they build a giant pyramid in relation to the position of smaller, unimpressive pyramids?", why build a pyramid at all? It's clearly not a pragmatic thing to do.
We have inscriptions in the pyramids showing they were for burial. We have ancient authors from different cultures showing they were for burial. We've found an ungodly amount of mummies in them, showing they were for burial. We have literal texts from ancient Egypt showing they were from burial. There's no doubt they served that function. You're perfectly right that not all of them were used for burial, but a hell of a lot of them certainly were, and unless you're someone like Sneferu then you're not going to be able to build a shit loads of practice pyramids.
Also, there are archaeological techniques to date things like pottery, we know when the civilization was about. There are no remains of a great prior civilization that built the pyramids.