ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Giant Rock, Exaggeration, Tutankhamun
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When did people develop math, engineering, architectural and practical skills for major construction. Egypt o were the great pyramids of giza suddenly built out of nowhere? (as daniken claims) o how were the pyramids built? o tutankhamun o pyramids of bosnia? o current perspectives john romer. He believes he found a pan for inside of pyramid. He found 3 designs rather than just a single in pyramid. Tunnels inside pyramids are narrow because they were control lines for builders. Romer is showing is that there is so much to know about construction of pyramids. The light bulb is actually a lotus flower one of the depictions but not a very good one. Egyptians believe that before anything existed, there was nothingness and the first thing to emerge was a lotus flower. Lotus flower then gave birth to the first god, it is believed.
