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There is *some* Initial period occupation at Caral but by this time Dr Shady believes that the center of power in the Supe valley had transferred to Era de Pando (a site about half way between Caral and the ocean). http://www.caralperu.gob.pe/principal_ing.htm That's a link to the English language v...

I'll see if I can get the info from him...

Yeah ... these Djed guys just wanting to sound like their strong ...lol... That's the most I can tell you on the external skeleton .... you'd have to ask Frank Dorenburg for more information. I haven't read the german archaeologists reports that he has. Unfortunately right now I can't even refer you...

I just went back and looked at the list again .... it was Djedkare not Djedefre on that page.

That's what happens when I scan too quickly!
However my comments regarding the skeleton of the pyramid holds.

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I did a bit of looking at the Vinca script when I was researching what I could on the history of the area (back when all this started). The Vinca are extremely interesting and I think the script is very promising. My problem is that I can't find much published research in English. I've combed throug...

Yes there's an answer, I'll tell it even though from your previous postings you aren't likely to even take it into consideration as you seem to enjoy the ranting and raving against the "Egyptology club." The answer lays in the writings of German archaeologists who studied the engineering p...

This all changed around 2630 BC with the erection of the step pyramid. Assuming that is correct....it would not be hundreds and hundreds of years to the GP...and again, the Step Pyramid (as well as Sneferu's work, seem to be built of much more manageable sized stones. I never said it was hundreds o...

My brain's tired ... we also can't forget Nabta Playa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabta_Playa

I believe Minimalist is arguing that since the Step Pyramid is the first *major* work in stone that the AE didn’t move stone before the Step Pyramid. Here is just one example to show that is wrong. Again TCP, page 80 discussing 1st Dynasty mastabas. “It is in the very core of the mastabas that featu...

This quote is from The Complete Pyramids by Mark Lehner Page 104 "Rainer Stadelmann has been working at North Dahshur for over a decade. In the course of his excavations of the debris at the base of the pyramid he found hundreds of pieces of the fine limestone casing. Many of these have graffit...

Minimalist wrote:This guy seems to disagree with you.

Please elaborate how what Bakeman has on that page disagrees with me.

Everyone knows that Djoser's step pyramid is a mastaba built atop a mastaba ... but surely you aren't suggesting that Djoser's pyramid is mudbrick are you?

But maybe if you had worked for years moving blocks, and your father before you, and your father's father before him etc, you wouldn't have so many problems, in fact you would probably do it quickly. What I mean is that the egyptians had extensive experience on that kind of work, and they had thous...

Though I agree the stones could be moved this way after all my experience with moving and setting these mountings I can state for a FACT there is no way on earth you are doing one every 4 minutes You need to think of an assembly line with this ... as I said before Ford produced a Model A every 49 s...

I believe the theory is that the barge would be put in place and sunk using rocks to a certain point then the obselik slid on and the rocks removed to float the barge.

Modern Russians moved the massive rock for the base of the Peter the Great statue using this type of method.