It would help to explain why it's been a mystery for more than 4500 years. Who'd look around in the desert today and think that the ancients must have had access to large amounts of water under pressure right up on the Giza Plateau?

But the signs that water played the crucial role are everywhere in historical, physical, cultural, and geological data. The pyramid itself screams that the indented sides and groove down the middle (http://www.catchpenny.org/concave.html) were for the purpose of containing counterweights and lifters. The salt in the queen's chamber wouldn't have been able to collect without water transporting it. Perhaps the most telling of all the facts associated with the pyramid is the fact that there is foreign sand in the walls. It is simply inconceivable that people building a pyramid in a desert would import sand from the outside. It's wholly impossible for it to have blown in so the only rational explanation is that it was water-bourne.

The fact that they'd spend such huge effort to build the causeways implies that these had some integral function to the usage, construction, or operation of the pyramids. Why spend a third of the effort on a massive project to build a walkway to it? Isn't it exceedingly coincidental that deep passages lead down from its lenght and that natural caverns are included in several parts of the passages withing the pyramid? Look at the huge retaining walls around all these structures. It makes little sense to erect huge walls of mud brick to protect a dead king and his treasure. Anyone who can get into the pyramid will hardly be impeded by these walls.

Certainly the arguments against ramps are powerful and well known. Their proximity to the pyramid also ensures that stone would need to be hauled large distances in the opposite direction before being dragged up the ramp. There are simply a dearth of options for means of building these with primitive technology. Their technology might have been exceedingly primitive and didn't even include the wheel but these people were as intelligent as anyone today. Indeed, it takes more intelligence to accomplish tasks without modern technology. So, without evidence of higher technology, we are left with precious few means that it might be done. And it was not only done here but at other sites worldwide.

If water were available at the top of the pyramid it would make this task quite simple and straightforward. The cultural evidence even provides numerous clues why this hasn't been previously discovered. With water they could fill large boat shaped containers at the top connected to sleds full of stones on the opposite side with rope. As the boat got sufficiently heavy it would simply fall down the side and lift up the stones.

There is extensive substantiation of this in the Pyramid Texts if they are extrapolated back to the times when they were originally written before and as the pyramids were being built. There are even utterances which appear to describe this operation in some detail. If this corpus is taken literally it simply comes alive and tells a great deal about their Gods and the way they worshipped and believed. These people were not so primitive as they are usually portrayed. They may have been a little superstitious and unsophisticated but with the limitation of their knowledge, they really were quite modern in most important regards.

So, the obvious question is what was the source of this water pressure. This is part of the reason that it wasn't discovered till now; much of the needed information was a Soviet military secret. First is the fact that there is a series of underground aquifers going all the way to the Nile headwaters. Second is that there was once the largest canyon on Earth extending to Aswan. This canyon was cut when the Mediterranean was cut off from the oceans and its level dropped. This meant the Nile had to fall into it and this falling cut the canyon. When the level rerose the canyon became a fiord which gradually filled in. Caves form right under the water table so this action of the Nile resulted in the "Land of Horus" (area where pyramids were built) becoming heavily crisscrossed with caves and caverns.

This wouldn't have mattered and there would be no pyramids there today except for a couple more little quirks of narture. The undergrond aquifers transport huge amounts of water right underneath Giza. This flow still exists today as evidenced by a clear water cavern about 80' under the surface in which people often swim.

Far away in the Congo there is a carbonated lake named Lake Kivu. It is one of only three carbonated lakes in the entire world. Perhaps not coincidentally all three are in Africa. As recently as 18,000 years ago this lake was part of the headwaters of the Nile. The longest river in the world was several hundred miles longer in those days. But vulcanic mountains rose to the north and this region was cut off. The water rose until it found a new path to the sea. The river parallels the Great African Rift which is the fastest growing rift on the planet. Someday it will be the site of all the new crust on the planet. Whether this rift is related to the series of basins or not is an imponderable probably but it takes little imagination to think that these mountains tipped the aquifer as they rose and carbonated them as well. If this carbon dioxide remained in solution all the way to Giza where they first intersected the cave network it would quite possibly result in cold water geysers and, I believe, this is the source of their water to build the pyramids.

Early man would be attracted primarily to sources of good water. Where better and what better water than Giza where the pyramid texts refer to "water like wine" and say their Gods are "effervescent". This water might sometimes have significant amounts of hydrogen sulphide which smells like rotten eggs dissolved in it as well. Today at Lake Kivu children inadvertantly wander into pockets of CO2 and are killed. The hydrogen sulphide is not always present with the CO2. This is probably related to the Pyramid Texts which says that the Gods all had "evil comings" and that Isis herself stank badly (evil smelling) sometimes.

It leaves almost no loose ends. The few things that don't support it or contradict it can be ascribed to later writings by people who were unaware of the means used to build the great pyramids. Most of these are all contained in a short series of utterances which might have been written closer to when they were carved in stone than to when the great pyramids were built. Keep in mind this applies only to the old large pyramids and not to the smaller later ones. The Egyptians continued to build even after the water failed.

My hands hurt, >:C


Only for intellects.

Who cares ?

Just shut the **** up and leave.

I thought it would be a good intellectual debate.

You said it leaves almost no loose ends.
What is there to debate?

I'm just saying who would actucally debate over shit like this.

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You said it leaves almost no loose ends.
What is there to debate?

Well, whatever little cracks in my theory that you happen to find.

This Marklar is now about Marklar.

Maaarrrkllllarrrr.

Marklar believes that the marklars had help from te marklars.

Maaarrrkllllarrrr.

Nukednut, what the living ****?

I already said where the hell they got the water from.

I still think the biggest mysteries are:

1. How the fu[SIZE="2"]ck[/SIZE] did they get the damn stones on top of eachother?

2. The pyramids' tops point exactly to places where stars have been couple of thousands years before they were built. All of 'em. How?

3. How did they get the Hyroglyphs out of nothing. I saw on Nat Geo that they weren't there and then suddenly they were. And something about that they were given to them y the gods, who lived in the stars or something.

I say that they got help from the Aliens.
I'm serious.

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Aliens.

I WANT TO BELIEVE
I WANT TO BELIEVE
I WANT TO BELIEVE

Is that a good movie?
Or does it kill the mystery of aliens?

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I still think the biggest mysteries are:

1. How the fu[SIZE="2"]ck[/SIZE] did they get the damn stones on top of eachother?
RAMPS, MANUAL LABOUR.
2. The pyramids' tops point exactly to places where stars have been couple of thousands years before they were built. All of 'em. How?
STARS HAVE BEEN FUCKING EVERYWHERE AT SOME POINT
3. How did they get the Hyroglyphs out of nothing. I saw on Nat Geo that they weren't there and then suddenly they were. And something about that they were given to them y the gods, who lived in the stars or something.
THEY MADE THIER OWN LANGUAGE K?
I say that they got help from the Aliens.
I'm serious.
NOE U

K ?