50/50 on what to think. The pyramids being a map of the stars is intriguing and shows how ancient man did some amazing things. But it could have also have been just a tomb, but why was it so plain and looked liked it wasn't used?
For reference I watched this video on it last night. The end of the video does get a bit ancient aliens-y but thankfully doesn't go too far. Great channel btw.
Wild Card Answer: They were indeed massive grain silos :ben-carson:
No you're good, link don't work? Here's the channel, https://www.youtube.com/c/ThinkAnomalous/videos
So all the decorations and stuff were pilfered? Would there be any truth to them being a star map, coincidence?
alright i watched most of it.
it was a tomb. sarcophagus is inside it. tomb.
i didnt know people used the sparse inside as an argument it wasnt a tomb. besides the high likelihood of removed valuables, which would stop that argument flat--theres also the fact people arent meant to see it, the outside was very fancy, and the possibility for beareaucratic explainations
like just because the masonry is really well done we have to assume the insides were perfectly to specs? maybe they couldnt figure out how to get enough light to paint shit w/o killing workers? they were over budget? had to burry khufu before it was done?
That's what I was thinking originally, that it had to be used quick hence was the inside was so sparse, but since everything was stolen that was in there it makes me fully buy into it just being a fancy tomb.
even so i think the star-map bits are completely reasonable until they look like
'they were sending astronomy students into the pyramid to look at constellations through the holes' the gulf between a tomb with constellation/star alignments for a neat visual effect or religious purpose---and a not-tomb pyramid structure with exclusive cosmological purposes is enormous
if they were building a structure to track stars they wouldnt mound 1000tons of limestone on top the viewing area
Where the facets of the pyramid totally covered? If so then yeah that would axe that idea.
They used to be covered in a layer of white marble. I do recall hearing that their arrangement was found to match the pattern of the stars in a well-known constellation, but it's been a long time since I heard that.
Yeah the video mentions the marble layer, which I had no clue was a thing btw. It's such a shame that everything from these sites got stolen, there's so much we could have learned.
It was mostly polished white limestone actually, apparently marble was a mistranslation that stuck around for ages. The limestone stuck around too, shit's heavy, a lot of it got recycled into decorations for palaces and later mosques in Cairo. Few of them are still around.
From what I understand that's pretty common throughout history. Stone is hard to quarry & masons are expensive. After a disaster or pillaging the old temple walls & foundations are usually the first to go.
Yup, if you know what to look for in any old city in Europe, pretty much every pre WWI building has elements of stripped older structures. Really common throughout countinously occupied spaces.