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On September 16th, I watched a National Geographic/Fox Television special on the building of the pyramids of Egypt. The main players were Dr. Zahi Hawass and Dr. Mark Lehner. It appears to me that the two doctors were trying to rewrite history.
They would have us believe that 25,000 Egyptians built the pyramids, solely and completely. Well, after being a traveler in the Middle East for more than 25 years, and having spent the last 8 years leading spiritual tours to Egypt, I find it very hard to buy into the basis of their theories. In fact, some of their theories just don’t hold water for the average southern white boy, such as myself. Try this one on for size…without a wheel, without even a pulley, Dr. Hawass states the Egyptian work force was able to build the three pyramids of the Giza plateau in less than 100 years. He claimed that these Egyptians, working purely out of the love of their country, could set a stone every two to three minutes. Now you must realize that each pyramid contains approximately 2 - 2.4 million stones, weighing between 5 and 70 tons apiece. Dr. Hawass and Dr. Lehner would have us believe that in order to accomplish the building of one pyramid, the workers would have to lay one of these stones every two to three minutes, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for 33 years. To accomplish the erection of all three pyramids in one hundred years this rate would have to be sustained non-stop, consecutively for each one…this is absolutely preposterous! Dr. Lehner’s claim that it took 25,000 workers to build the pyramids yet, try as he might, he could locate living quarters for only 3,000 workers. Now, this is a stretch for even my very active imagination. I would hope that these two very learned men, National Geographic and Fox Television do not believe for one minute that the American public is that gullible. We may not know the truth behind the building of the pyramids, but we do know that what Dr. Hawass and Dr. Lehner have just told us simply cannot be true! |
