Sorry. No, they aren't know for writing up their construction methods. So there is no reason to expect to find any. I'm not an Egyptologist though.Tech wrote:Doug
I didnt know if any existed
Thats why I asked !
I take it you doubt the authenticity of the invetory stela ?
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Unless they learned them orally. But you may be right.oldarchystudent wrote:Surely they didn't reinvent the method for building a pyramid every time they set out though. Building instructions must have been recorded at some point, if lost to us now.
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True but it's the engeneering, as opposed to the "bricklaying" that would need to be recorded. There must have been a lot of engineering techniques that would be hard to accurately impart orally.stan wrote:I would think that everyone knew how to build them.
Thousands of people witnessed the construction!
Thinking again, maybe that's how they screwed up with the "bent" pyramid. Hmmmm.....
No - more likely it was all just ego...
My karma ran over my dogma.
but that would indicate that in our age, everyone would know how to build a skyscraper because they witnessed one being erected.I would think that everyone knew how to build them.
Thousands of people witnessed the construction
the best guess at present would be that they probably had blueprints per se and that those plans were lost due to time, or wars or even fire. who is to say what records were stored in the library of alexandria when it went up in smoke.
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Alexandria had several libraries. The Royal Library probably didn't exist at th e start of the Christian era. Others of course did and were later dispersed and destroyed. Exactly what happened is a mystery to them is not certain.Pick your favorite villain and you will find someone arguing that they did it.
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Of course some of the old and accurate maps were saved away to Constantinople, to later be compiled to make the Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings, which reveal that the ancients could accurately measure east-west distances (longitude), commonly thought to not have been possible before Harrison invented his chronometer, but with the methodology in article #2 at www.IceAgeCivilizations.com, they were able to achieve such.
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Any chance of getting back to the subject of this thread?
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I got distracted several posts before that. I didn't help keep it on thread, mea culpa. My lapse is no excuse for keeping off topic, and it's drifited a long way.Genesis Veracity wrote:Doug, the recent subject is the pillaging of the libraries at Alexandria, why didn't you interject when this subject came up?
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