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Sikog t1_ixhshfp wrote
Reply to comment by Pyranze in Ancient Egyptian mummification was never intended to preserve bodies by IslandChillin
We'll probably never know what it was used for because not much research is done anymore since the narrative is set, it's open for tourism and is more in maintenance and preserving then in research.
If you look at it objectively as for what it is, it is not a 100% sell that it is a tomb. Add some historical texts based on the daily talk on the streets 2600-500 bce, surrounding pyramids acting as tombs then sure maybe it makes more sense it's a tomb.
All I'm doing is challenging it for what it really is without pushing all the external parts to the core, it starts to challenge ones believes and people don't like that.
But let's call it a tomb for today, in 150 years it might be called something else that's the way history goes.
Sikog t1_ixhhirm wrote
Reply to comment by Individual-Gur-7292 in Ancient Egyptian mummification was never intended to preserve bodies by IslandChillin
A theory is in itself a guess of the unknown, there are also plenty of evidence that also challenge the current narrative.
I know about the textual records and they sure are interesting, however let's stick to facts and those are that we don't know the exact date of the great pryamid of Giza for now we can only estimate.
The great thing about history is that for all we know we might discover another technology next week that might pinpoint even more exact then carbon dating, it explains everything about the pyramids challenging everything we are believed to know.
In the end, it's all about beliefs and I believe the chronology are very much up to debate now and in the future, not choosing to debate history is just sad overall in my opinion nobody wins on that.
Sikog t1_ixheoho wrote
Reply to comment by SandSlinky in Ancient Egyptian mummification was never intended to preserve bodies by IslandChillin
Sure they must have taken great lengths to cut down 100% the inscriptions on the walls and loot them, however nobody can deny that treasures very well might have been looted.
In the last 100 years we have discovered more chambers that were previously unknown and untouched yet they are still empty.
Sikog t1_ixhe2j1 wrote
Reply to comment by Individual-Gur-7292 in Ancient Egyptian mummification was never intended to preserve bodies by IslandChillin
Well you are simply wrong, a calculated guess is still a guess.
Sikog t1_ixhcymv wrote
Reply to comment by quintus_horatius in Ancient Egyptian mummification was never intended to preserve bodies by IslandChillin
Maybe someone at some point wanted to be buried there I know they have different chambers in the pryamids, the sarcophagi or what we believe it to be is sure interesting.
A highly revered person would have treasures beyond imagination, inscriptions of the greatness of their era and most definitely human remains,mummies which does not exist at all, zero, absolutely null in the pyramids of Giza.
The pyramids of Giza differ so much from the other pyramids or tombs we have found, just because 9/10 pryamids were used as tombs it doesn't automatically mean the 10th are also.
I'm not saying I'm correct, but it sure is interesting that the pryamids of Giza lacks so very much of what the other tombs have.
Sikog t1_ixhafg2 wrote
Reply to comment by Individual-Gur-7292 in Ancient Egyptian mummification was never intended to preserve bodies by IslandChillin
I'm very aware of the current chronology of the establishment pyramids.
Since the history of the Giza pyramids are LOST to mankind we are best guessing by books/texts written by Romans/Egyptians from local stories when they visited/lived in Egypt.
We also have carbon dating which varies a lot, a group collected 70 samples and got the results 2853 to 3809 BC. That's a difference of 400 years which very well might make the Pyramid of Giza the oldest.
People must understand that we don't know how old the Pyramids are, we are only doing calculated guesses.
The debate should ALWAYS be open around a subject like this specially regarding lost history, just because it's convenient to not change the order doesn't mean the first order is the correct one.
Sikog t1_ixh1me2 wrote
Reply to comment by jongeheer in Ancient Egyptian mummification was never intended to preserve bodies by IslandChillin
Sorry I ment to say one of the oldest* There are still debates to this day on which pyramids were built the first since we cannot be certain.
Sikog t1_ixgf2dn wrote
Reply to comment by MadRoboticist in Ancient Egyptian mummification was never intended to preserve bodies by IslandChillin
The claims that the Giza pyramids was used as tombs are not backed up by raw evidence, they are built very different from the later Pyramids that was used as tombs hence why I called it a modern theory, it's a theory because it lacks evidence.
It's strange and a big mystery that the largest pyramids of Giza contain no human remains, bodies, mummies or inscription in the walls like the later ones.
Later Pyramids were definitely used as tombs and have both texts and inscriptions on the walls referring them as tombs, I'm just mentioning the Giza pyramids here.
Sikog t1_ixf0cdn wrote
Reply to comment by MadRoboticist in Ancient Egyptian mummification was never intended to preserve bodies by IslandChillin
Well regarding the Pyramids of Giza it's just a modern theory that they were used as tombs. No mummies, bodies or human remains has ever been found in them.
The inside chambers are completely bare with no ornaments, inscriptions or traces of ones passing into the afterlife.
It's quite interesting since they are dated as the oldest of pyramids.
Sikog t1_ixhzm4l wrote
Reply to comment by Pyranze in Ancient Egyptian mummification was never intended to preserve bodies by IslandChillin
I'm sure the Egyptians who built the great Pyramid of Giza are all laughing at us both in the afterlife, for only they know the real purpose it was built for.