Modern Mongolia, perhaps. The Golden Horde of Genghis Khan was not so tolerant!

I’ve got young kids. Waking up early is the best time for me to be productive and enjoy solitude.

Also please don’t look at it

Publish or perish

The real singers were two men and a woman, if I recall correctly…

Descartes warned us but we didn’t listen

Devolution confirmed

One historian described him as an “anxiety-ridden nerd”.

TIL that Charles Darwin hated everybody and everything!

Isn’t that Lamarckism? If I recall correctly, that’s an older model of evolution that is not commonly recognized anymore.

I swear that I’m not trying to be obtuse, but I have a lot of doubts.

What kind of ropes and wooden sleds, manufactured in 4000 BC, can move 80 ton stones? There are tensile limits…

I’ve also heard of this. It seems to me that this theory should be easy to confirm with some sort x-ray or radar or lidar or something, so that we can see the shape of the structure beneath the superficial layers…

Source? I’m not doubting you. I’m just surprised that the government would limit research, probably for political reasons.

It seems like you’re out for blood, my friend.

I’ve cited three academic scientists in this conversation. You’re welcome to check them out if you want.

This is a great resource for looking up published research and also unpublished theories.

I don’t know, my friend. I’m not an archeologist or Egyptologist. I’m just an enthusiast who has read a dozen conflicting theories.

Yeah, I remember this guy. He claimed that Stonehenge in England could have been built like this. The pyramids of Giza are much more complex, of course. Still, I think it’s entirely possible that the pyramids were built using very clever engineering principles that were forgotten and that we don’t need because we have cranes and power tools and hydraulics, etc.

They also depict gods with the heads of jackals and birds, beings from other planets, their conception of the afterlife, pornography, and obviously exaggerated claims about the power and influence of the Pharoahs.

I’m saying that we should be skeptical. dubitante omnibus, as Descartes would say…

I never suggested that they couldn’t.

Personally, I don’t think that the “brute force” argument is the best. I think it’s arguing from ignorance.

Again, there are hundreds of articles about the adjacent work camps. Please look at the publications of Zahi Hawass, chief archeologist of Egypt, and Amihai Mazar, a professor of archeology in Jerusalem.

Most claim that there could have been up to ten thousand workers. Some claim that the number of workers was as low as 1600.