Source Of
Knowledge: THE EYES OF SPHINX (1996)
Author:
ERICH VON DANIKEN (Switzerland)
Unlike the
knowledge of the pyramid effect which I gained only after reading Daniken’s book,
the question about its construction had arisen in me when I first heard about
the pyramid in detail. What more, all my doubts were only enhanced by Daniken’s
theories. The complexities, then, turned into absurdities!
Yes! The
theory that ordinary humans created the great pyramid is (almost) an absurd
idea!!!
Let’s begin
from its supposed builder pharaoh Khufu of Egypt’s first dynasty. He had ruled
over Egypt for 23 years. According to Herodotus and Strabo the pyramid was
completed in about 20 years time with around 1,00,000 workers laboring
together.
Today’s
experts estimate that the pyramid consists of around 24 and a half million
stone blocks, some weighing up to 40 tons. If the pyramid was completed in 20
years then 1,25,000 stones would have to be placed in position every year. That
would leave us with 417 blocks every day. Let us assume that workers labored
for at least 12 hours per day. That makes it 34 blocks per hour. Mathematics
takes us to an impossibility that every 2 minutes, a stone block weighing many
tons would have to be kept in its right position.
But we are
now only talking about completely finished stone blocks. We unfortunately don’t
get completely perfect stone blocks from nature. It would have to be chiseled
out of somewhere, shaped and then finally transported to the site. How the hell
do you think could a stone block (let’s say I ton) be chiseled out of mountain,
transported for many miles, then be placed in a climbing pyramid with every two
minutes for 20 years. If they could do that, then our skyscraper junks are just
‘Lego blocks’.
The next and
the most important argument is about the authenticity of great pyramid’s builder.
Most believe that it was commissioned by Pharaoh Khufu in the 3rd
millennium BCE. The thing is, nowhere inside or outside the pyramid is an
inscription or a hieroglyph or just a scribbling that tells us that Khufu is
its builder. All the pyramids that came before and after the great pyramid
glorifies about its builder somewhere inside it. Then why was the most magnificent
of them all not adorned with its builder’s name. Do you know how many statues
or hieroglyphic inscriptions of this great pyramid builder has been discovered
too far?-just one tiny 5 CMS statue!!!
The complexity
of building such a feat within 20 years is not yet over. Have you ever thought
how the ancient Egyptians could haul 401 tons-40,000kgs of stone one above the
other in precise position (that too in just 2 minutes)???Even modern
engineering feats would find this task impossible. Now, how the hell did those
people get enough woods in the middle of a giant desert for construction and
transportation purposes? That would have to be shipped from far off countries
like Lebanon which would in turn create an immense monetary depletion from Egypt’s
treasury.
Now the most
important complexity of them all - feeding the workers!
Greek
historians claim that almost 1,00,000 workers labored for 20 years to complete
the pyramid. In these days onion and radish were the food trends of Egypt. Let’s
say one worker ate 100gms of radishes every day or for all the workers 10,000kgs
of radishes were required every day. How could a desert kingdom cultivate such humongous
quantities of crops and vegetables per day, not to think of other vegetables and
clean drinking water? Assuming that Khufu used all these workers as slaves and
did not feed them properly, how they hell will they work continuously for 20
years.
Despite of
all these, there are many other impossibilities and geometrical complexities
for constructing such a wonder, and think of it standing tall and untouched for
all these past 4000 years. Another world wonder Taj Mahal –around 400 years old
had already began to loose its luster.
So the
multi-million dollar question is: Is the great pyramid a man made wonder? Or
something extraterrestrial? Or, were the Egyptians capable of things that are
only science fiction for us?
Answer:”Nothing
is harder to believe than the reality itself!”
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