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Title: Egypt's Pyramids Were Grain Silos, Not Tombs
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Lead Stories
URL Source: http://ben-carson.leadstories.com/0 ... ere-grain-silos-not-tombs.html
Published: Nov 5, 2015
Author: Alan Duke
Post Date: 2015-11-05 08:58:10 by Willie Green
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Views: 30384
Comments: 60
Ben Carson, one of the Republican frontrunners in the race to be U.S. president, believes archeologists got it wrong about Egypt's pyramids. The huge stone structures were built to store massive quantities of grain, not to serve as tomb for rulers, according to what Carson said in a 1998 graduation speech at Michigan's Andrews University.
And the remarkable pyramids were built not by the pharaohs, but by the biblical Joseph, son of Jacob, Carson hypothesized.
In the Old Testament book of Genesis, Joseph was said to have "stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure," Carson said in a video of the address. Carson been a popular speaker for conservative Christian groups for years. Here's the speech posted on YouTube:
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#4. To: Willie Green (#0)
In the Old Testament book of Genesis, Joseph was said to have "stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure," I like a lot of what he says, but on this he's just ignorant. At that time, man did not have the tools or knowledge necessary to build the pyramids. One look at the interior will tell you that the pyramids were not grain silos.
#7. To: Deckard, GrandIsland (#4)
This really is a red-letter day for LF. We finally found just one thing that you won't believe. Would it help if Carson said there was a conspiracy by powerful and cunning Egyptian elites to use the pyramids to store grain? That it was a conspiracy by the Pharaoh and his cronies to perpetrate a pyramid scheme on the helpless citizens of Egypt?
Actually, one look at the excellent interior drawing you posted will show most anyone that the pyramid illustrated could have been used as a grain silo. ---- The 'Great Gallery' (at h) and the 'ascending corridor' (at e) could have been used to store millions of tons of grain; -- which could have been poured down the air shaft (at g), -- and retrieved when needed from the entrance shown (at a)... Thus, we can understand how Carson could get the rather odd idea about grain storage.--- I agree, --- anyone this confused about history/religion should not be trusted to hold presidential power.
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#10. To: Deckard, Y'ALL (#4)
One look at the interior will tell you that the pyramids were not grain silos.
I like a lot of what he says, but on this he's just ignorant.
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