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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: 31124
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.
DK.
#59. To: SOSO (#57)
You may have missed my earlier post. Ramesseum has both storehouses and granaries constructed in similar styles in royal fashion. Try all three links to see the photos. At least, you get to see the best examples of 13th century B.C. Egyptian construction. For an example of what a wealthy pharaoh would use, the best example is the relatively little-known Ramesseum temple complex with a full set of granaries and warehouses. It was the mortuary temple of Rameses II who was the last of the great pharaohs of Egypt, 13th century BCE. [Another good picture is here (TourEgypt.net).] Civilization.org.uk: Ramesseum
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.
#57. To: sneakypete (#48)
Are there any "warehouse ruins" from those time periods known?
Replies to Comment # 57. SP: Are there any "warehouse ruins" from those time periods known?
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