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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
Keywords: None
Views: 33920
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.
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?
Really? Well, there are many things I don't believe - one of them being that you are anything but a dickwad. And then you ping the police state shill GrandIsland to the thread? Yeh - you're a real class act. Would it help if Carson said there was a conspiracy by powerful and cunning Egyptian elites to use the pyramids to store grain? And your insanity continues unabated.
Well, at least one of you are insane, and perhaps a dickwad as well. "Carson’s claims seem to be drawn in part from Egyptologist Dr Wyatt Thom’s 1984 book Egypt Egypt Egypt. According to Thom, the pyramids were built to house grain, and mummified bodies were placed inside as scarecrows to keep birds away. If you’re wondering how that makes sense given that the pyramids are enclosed structures, Thom claims this is because you’re “hamstrung by a very modern conception of birds”. It is entirely possible that the first pryamids had a dual purpose.
It was not to store grain. Monuments to vanity by long-dead monarchs.
Most likely so. But it would be interesting to find some artifact that the massive storage of grain actually happened and where.
I've never thought about it before and have zero experience with or knowledge of what it takes to feed the population of a large city,but it stands to reason they had to have somewhere to store massive amounts of grain,so if not there,where? Are there any "warehouse ruins" from those time periods known? Even back then it took a huge bureaucracy to run a large city,and given they were keeping figures using sticks on clay tablets,probably a larger percentage of the local governments were devoted to food storage and distribution than in modern cities.
Are there any "warehouse ruins" from those time periods known? Firstly; you need to look at practicality, The Giza plateau where the pyramids exist is not close to the river and early settlement. It is a dry arid place above the furtile river valley, so noone is going to be transporting large quantities of grain back and forth. Secondly; as I explained earlier ancient buildings were made of mud bricks and adobe, this tends to be eroded over time by wind and rain and we are talking of thousands of years. I have seen a mud building of relatively recent construction become little more than a large blob of mud after a few years and be abandoned. It is for this reason that people ultimately found a way of firing clay bricks. Ancient ruins mainly consist of little more than an outline on the ground or are buried by accumulated dust, vegitation or debris. Successive generations rob the ruins of usable material or build over them. In ancient times we are not talking about a large city as we are today, cities of 100,000 were rare and as we can see in various parts of the world, they ran out of resources and were abandoned. Cities of a few thousand were the norm. People didn't generally make long journeys as we do today because such journeys took months or even years.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestAnd the remarkable pyramids were built not by the pharaohs, but by the biblical Joseph, son of Jacob, Carson hypothesized.
#7. To: Deckard, GrandIsland (#4)
#8. To: TooConservative (#7)
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We finally found just one thing that you won't believe.
#12. To: Deckard, TooConservative (#8)
And your insanity continues unabated.
#15. To: SOSO (#12)
It is entirely possible that the first pryamids had a dual purpose.
#16. To: TooConservative (#15)
It was not to store grain. Monuments to vanity by long-dead monarchs.
#48. To: SOSO (#16)
Most likely so. But it would be interesting to find some artifact that the massive storage of grain actually happened and where.
#56. To: sneakypete (#48)
I've never thought about it before and have zero experience with or knowledge of what it takes to feed the population of a large city,but it stands to reason they had to have somewhere to store massive amounts of grain,so if not there,where?
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