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caffeine
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Without being an expert on pyramid construction, the obvious answer seems to be that they were carved before the roof was put on. I imagine pyramids are built from the bottom upwards.
I’m not sure why you think it’s necessary to see something from above to plan its shape as seen from above. I have no architectural training whatsoever and I could do this. Just plan the shape you want on a piece of paper, measure the lengths of the sides, then scale up to however enormous you want it. You can then use pieces of rope measured to the correct length and stretch them out to mark your boundaries. Problem solved.
And what is the mystery about things being aligned with astrological significance? Ancient Egyptians could see the stars just as well as we could (better, actually, there being less light pollution around). They could also see the planets. The very word ‘planet’ comes from the ancient Greek for ‘wanderer’, because the planets looked, to them, like stars that wandered across the skies. Egyptians could see just as well as Greeks, so their astronomers could see the planets too. This is all a bit irrelevant though, because you wouldn’t need to see planets to map out the constellation of Sagittarius. It’s made up of stars, not planets.
So, a small number of people saw something which we haven’t found a clear explanation for whilst flying. Given the fact that people often see things that aren’t there, and the sheer unlikeliness of anything having crossed the unimaginably vast emptiness of space to get here, I’m going to need more convincing than that.
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If he was the only one against the ‘ancient aliens’ idea then his prejudice might be a good explanation. Given, however, that every single Egyptologist in the world agrees with him, I don’t think his personal views are relevant.
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