I guess everyone else is just furniture.

The official Egyptian stance on the subject of when the Pyramids were actually constructed has come under some serious criticism in the last century as evidence builds that the Pyramids are far older than previously thought. Obviously, the Egyptians have many reasons to “keep it in the family” by perpetuating the classic theory of the pyramids being constructed in about 4,300 B.C. by ancient Egyptian kings, and they do have some evidence for this theory, though at this point it seems highly questionable.

The first piece of evidence is from a man named Herodotus who visited Egypt in 443 B.C. and related a story about the Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops) building the great pyramid. Unfortunately, Herodotus was considered an unreliable liar even by his peers of the day, and thus his story has to be taken with a grain of salt.

The other main piece of evidence for this timeline is an inscription that was supposedly found by Col. Richard Howard-Vyse after blasting his way into the airspace chambers above the King’s Chamber in 1837. We know that Richard’s research money was running low at the time and that he desperately needed a major find in the Pyramid for continued funding. It is highly suspected that the inscriptions he supposedly “found” in the airspace chamber were actually written by him. This forgery may conceivably have worked, as basically the same red paint that the ancients used is still used today in Egypt, but the content of the inscriptions is incongruent with the timeline to say the least, including sayings that didn’t surface until a couple thousand years later, and blatant misspellings. From the record, Pharaoh Khufu himself says that he only did repair work on an already existing Pyramid complex and built three small pyramids in the area for himself and his family. Indeed, on the east side of the Pyramid there are ruins of three small pyramids, one of which has produced evidence of being the tomb of his wife…..

Many legends passed down from ancient civilizations mention the Pyramid as a repository of sorts to protect the knowledge of a highly advanced civilization from “a flood.” This is significant, and there are records that indicate that before the limestone surface of the Pyramids was stripped away, there was a water line that reached to about halfway up the Great Pyramid – about 240 feet – strongly suggesting that the Pyramids were built before the great flood – which occurred around 10,000 B.C. Inside, when the Great Pyramid was first opened, there were thick salt deposits along the walls to about halfway up. Though some of this salt is attributable to natural weeping by the rocks, some is also consistent chemically with sea salt – another strong piece of evidence for the Pyramids being in existence before the Great Flood. Indeed, modern studies indicate that 10,000 B.C. was a time of massive geomagnetic, climactic and geologic changes, and it is also the time frame that Plato uses to describe the destruction of the great civilization of Atlantis – assumedly from the same catastrophic events.

There is some evidence astronomically that coincides with the 10,000 – 12,000 B.C. timeline for the construction of the Pyramids. It has long been strongly suspected that the Pyramids have an integral connection to the night sky, and to the constellation Orion in particular. The three Pyramids are not in perfect, straight alignment as one might expect, but are slightly askew. This configuration is strongly suggestive of three stars in Orion’s belt, though their orientation is different. However, if you turn the clock back by about 10,500 years, suddenly the orientation and alignment becomes perfect (see comparison below). This is strong evidence in support of the Pyramids being built during this time in ancient history rather than the classical timeframe given to us by mainstream Egyptologists.

Lastly, and this one is certainly debatable but does warrant mention – Edgar Cayce, one of the most noted psychics of our time, correlated the Pyramids to the time of Atlantis and dated them to – you guessed it – 10,500 B.C………….

Though none of this is concrete proof of the timeline of the advent of the Pyramids, the evidence does seem to point to a much more remote civilization than has been presented in the official literature, and raises many more questions such as how an assumedly primitive society could erect such massive and precise structures and why…………topics that can be researched using the links at top left…….

here since you like facts:

fiction
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1. literary works invented by the imagination, such as novels

just stop trying to be a know it all and enjoy life. jeez.

“Intriguingly, in 1994, a scientist in Israel revealed the ancient Egyptians may have known of woolly mammoths, with a wall painting of what might be a waist-sized mammoth found in a pharaoh’s tomb.”

Could this be the dwarf mammoth of Wrangel Island (survived to 1700 BC), the dwarf elephants of the Greek Island Tilos (survived to 2000 BC), or something else? My guess is either a regular Asian or African elephant or a dwarf elephant. The Wrangel island mammoths might have still been around, but they’d be awfully far away from Egypt!

More:
Pygmy mammoths!
Did endemic dwarf elephants survive on Mediterranean islands up to protohistorical times? (PDF!)

Egyptian Wall Painting

One thing I’d like to say in regards to the Atlantis theory, is that in one of my anthropology classes a few years ago, we discussed the possibility of Atlantis, and if it did in fact exist, where did we think it was? Well, many theories abounded, but, the most plausable theory that someone in my class had, was that it might have existed to the east, and a little north, of Crete. And yes, like the Minoans, and Mycaneaens, they would have been an advanced culture.

Back to 10,000 B.C.E. The problem I have (one of many) with this story/movie, is the tame Wooly Mammoth. It’s not that I don’t think it’s possible (unlikely, yes), but the idea of a tuskless, TAME Wooly Mammoth bothers me, mostly because of a documentary I recently saw on Animal Planet in regards to elephants. It was dealing with the poaching of elephant tusks, and I kept thinking/wondering, “OK, if they’re only going after elephants for the ivory, and elephants can live without their tusks, why not (forgive the pun) kill two birds with one stone, and anethestize the elephants, remove the tusks (preferably only one, but both, if it’s deemed absolutely necessary), and let the elephant live?” Ideal right? Well, not really. My question got answered later in the show… Apparently, elephants that have had their tusks removed, and are now basically defenseless, tend to become extremely violent and dangerous. Based upon this, I can only imagine what a tuskless Wooly Mammoth would be like, and I cannot imagine that it would be tame/domesticated. Since elephants are descended from Wooly Mammoths (or am I completely wrong here? I took classes in anthropology, not paleontology, so I may be ignorant here), I can only imagine that a tuskless Wooly Mammoth would be ten times more dangerous than a tuskless elephant.

So, besides all the other historical inaccuracies that this movie has, the tuskless, domesticated Wooly Mammoth just added to that.

As for the Clovis Point People, well, theories have abounded as to their place of origin too, and while I have not before heard of the French origin theory, which to me seems implausable, I have heard theories that they were a sea faring people, but came from areas closer to where their sites in South America were originally found. It’s more plausable that they sailed from nearby islands and landed in South America, and slowly migrated north. At least, this is what was discussed in my antropology classes.

This would have been about three thousand years prior to the formation of the Bering Landbridge. Again; according to the special.

For instance, I didn’t find the size of that CGI sabertooth so implausible. With vitamin deficiencies and such, Mesolithic people probably _were_ less than five feet tall. Which means, from their point of view, a SEVEN-foot tall smilodon would most definitely be a giant monster!

Furthermore, with all the different legends about an ancient Great Flood around the world, I firmly believe there _must_ have been an Atlantis-like continent at one time. With a native population that might have been slightly more advanced than their neighbors.

The one complaint I do have, with this film? Modern-day elephants do not _gallop_ when they stampede! Rather they move at a very powerful fast-walk. And, I’m sure the same was true of woolly mammoths.

Of course, there is some evidence that at least one sub-species of dwarf mammoth existed even into modern times

An interesting exception in the story of mammoth is the hold out on Wrangel Island. A population of dwarfed mammoths there didn’t go extinct until around 1700 BC!

http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/Journal/v37n1/vartanyan.html