THE END OF THE LEGACY OF THE PYRAMIDS:HOW THESE AMAZING STRUCTURES SHAPED ANCIENT EGYPT AND THE WORLD (PART-3)

I’M ENDING MY LAST CHAPTER LIKE, KING HAS ENDED HIS LAST JOURNEY

In another theory, it was suggested that they might have used levers to stack the stones on top of each other.

Scholars believe, that a similar system, known as Shadoof existed in Egypt for millenniums.

* They used the same mechanism to draw water from the river Nile. To irrigate their fields.

* These theories sound fascinating, but the inconsistency arises in the form of construction time. We know that the pyramid was completed within 20 years.

* If 20,000 people transported each stones like a stone needs to be placed every 3 minute, each day all around the year. It seems quite unlikely that they would’ve worked so rapidly.

THIS IS WHY THIS IS STILL A MYSTERY TO THIS DAY.

• We do known that the layers at the bottom were placed without mortar. And then mortar was added to the layers on top, that increased the stability of a structure
• This is why, throughout thousands of years the pyramid of Giza still stands, despite several earthquakes.
• There’s also a mystery regarding the mortar, through scientists known the chemistry of the mortar used, they have not been able to recreate it.
• And finally, the last step of the construction was the outermost layer of the pyramid, it was made of fine whitish limestone.
• It meant that when sunlight fell on it these pyramids would shine white brilliantly.
• This was lost over thousands of years, the outermost layers have worn off from pyramids of Khafre, you can see a part of the layer at the top.
• Moving on from the construction to the design of the pyramids.
• It is utterly fascinating.

* Did you know that the pyramids the directions point exactly towards North, East, South and West?

The error is minute, an error of merely one- fifteenth of a degree.

* These are believed to point accurately towards the four directions.

* HOW COULD THAT BE? There was no compass back then, no modern technology such as GPS. Once again researchers tried to give their theoretical explanations.

* About how the Egyptian could achieve such a high level of precision.

* A popular theory is said to be by the Autumn Equniox. When the tilt of earthquakes allows the day and night to be equal.

* The shadow on the ground is in a straight direction towards East and West.

* Using this method, the degree of error in the calculations pyramid would be the same degree of error in the shadows during the Autumn Equniox.

* The second theory is believed to be the constellations. That the stars in the sky were used by the Egyptian to align their design.

* In 1989, Robert Bauval, an author and Egyptology enthusiast, came up with the Orion Correlation Theory.

* He claimed that the three pyramid in Giza were aligned similarly to the three stars of the Orion’s Belt

* He believed that the alignment was intentional. And that the Ancient Egyptian knew Astronomy.

* That they would track the star at night, and study them.

* And accordingly, they harvested various crops at certain times.

* Historians believe this to be a Fringe Theory.

* Fringe refers to something that isn’t Mainstream.

* Some point that are used against this theory, is that the three pyramids weren’t planned at the same time, neither were they built at the same time. And when this theory was tested by astronomers in 1999, studying the pyramids in the context of the star in the Orion’s Belt, it was found that the pyramids do not align exactly with it. The things is that ,the constellation has moved a bit over the course of thousand of years. Back then the star weren’t aligned in the same place as we see them now.

* It was important to discuss this theory as it’s a classical case. Where humans try to find patterns even in thing that have none. When we do not have concrete evidence for something. when we lack an exact explanation, we create our ideas, and if we can find any link anywhere we believe it to be true.

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