Those ancient Egyptians were "nuts"

[nat4900]

Really, those ancient Egyptians must have either been nuts or have had a weird sense of humor (at least according to that renowned Egyptologist, Dr. Ben Carson) when placing dead bodies next to their food source.

 

[Pete7469]

Not as "nuts" as the bed wetting libtards who shit where they eat.

 

[nat4900]

bed wetting libtards who shit where they eat

Ahhh, yet another right winger who emulates Shakespearean love sonnet writings.
Inspiring !!!

 

[Obiwan]

bed wetting libtards who shit where they eat

Ahhh, yet another right winger who emulates Shakespearean love sonnet writings.
Inspiring !!!

 

[SuperDemocrat]

Really, those ancient Egyptians must have either been nuts or have had a weird sense of humor (at least according to that renowned Egyptologist, Dr. Ben Carson) when placing dead bodies next to their food source.

What are you saying? Egyptians were so smart that they knew better than to do something like that? Is it possible that they didn't know better considering that they didn't know how diseases were spread back then.

 

[mamooth]

Looks like SuperDemocrat also thinks Pyramids were built for grain storage.

Any other Carson fans here who have drunk that deeply of DearLeaderCarson's cult koolaid?

 

[Arianrhod]

Really, those ancient Egyptians must have either been nuts or have had a weird sense of humor (at least according to that renowned Egyptologist, Dr. Ben Carson) when placing dead bodies next to their food source.

What are you saying? Egyptians were so smart that they knew better than to do something like that? Is it possible that they didn't know better considering that they didn't know how diseases were spread back then.

(A) Ancient Egyptians had a highly sophisticated understanding of medicine for the time
(B) Explain why something that looks like this:

As opposed to this (actual Egyptian grain storage facilities):

makes sense to you.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Not as "nuts" as the bed wetting libtards who shit where they eat.

...he yelled repeatedly, running down the street in his underpants.

Defend Carson.

 

[BlackFlag]

Something Carson has in common with Dubya and most other republicans, they double down when caught being stupid.

 

[Arizona Willie]

bed wetting libtards who shit where they eat

Ahhh, yet another right winger who emulates Shakespearean love sonnet writings.
Inspiring !!!

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And their language and phrasing displays their incredible intelligence and education. </snark>

 

[Care4all]

well, there have been no mummified bodies found within the pyramid tombs so we still do not know for a fact, what the pyramids were used for...

We'll figure it out eventually, but for now it is only an unproven theory based on strong circumstantial evidence.

 

[SwimExpert]

What are you saying? Egyptians were so smart that they knew better than to do something like that? Is it possible that they didn't know better considering that they didn't know how diseases were spread back then.

Considering the fact that humans have buried the dead going back to prehistoric times, that kinda supports the premise that ancient people knew well enough to dispose of dead bodies. And let us not forget that we're talking about the culture that invented mummification.

Ancient Egypt was the world's first civilization, and was the greatest of the early independent civilizations. The ancient Egyptians were obsessed with cleanliness. Men shaved their entire bodies just for the sake of cleanliness. They invented perfumes and scented lotions to fend off unpleasant body odors. The Egyptians were probably the inventors of circumcision, which was also a cleanliness custom. Egyptian doctors were the best in the world, revered for their skill and knowledge. They were knowledgeable enough to employ honey, copper, and bread mold as anti-infection agents.

Also compare the practices of other ancient peoples of the region. The Jewish bible refers to dead human bodies as being unclean. Their scriptures prohibit contact with dead human bodies during certain holy times. The vow of the Nazarite prohibits being in the general vicinity of dead bodies altogether, and requires a cleansing ritual if someone should suddenly fall dead when you're standing next to them.

So yeah, I kinda think that the ancient Egyptians, being the greatest and most cultured civilization of the ancient world, were smart enough to not bury dead people in their food storage facilities.

 

[Arianrhod]

Is there anyone here with a background in agriculture who can explain why you would not store grain several stories up in pyramidal structure that's largely solid and that took decades to build?

 

[occupied]

Is there anyone here with a background in agriculture who can explain why you would not store grain several stories up in pyramidal structure that's largely solid and that took decades to build?

Bulk storage facilities all have one thing in common: a large volume of empty space. The pyramids are all solid buildings with relatively little interior space. The materials used to build the pyramids could have been much more economically used to enclose a far, far larger volume if that had been the purpose of such structures. They were built to protect the extensive funerary goods and mummified remains of a pharaoh from plunder. The tomb complex at the valley of the kings had already been robbed in antiquity so they made an effort to build a tomb so massive that it could not be robbed. Ultimately they failed as the first Europeans to tunnel into the pyramids found they were not the first to do so. Did you catch that? The pyramids had to be tunneled into. Does not seem right to store grain in a structure with hardly any interior space and no door.

 

[nat4900]

What are you saying? Egyptians were so smart that they knew better than to do something like that? Is it possible that they didn't know better considering that they didn't know how diseases were spread back then.

Re-read my post.....and then apologize..........LOL

 

[ThoughtCrimes]

The Egyptian pyramid grain storage scheme was created to provide armoring against migrating plant eating dinosaurs as explained by award winning paleontologist Dr. Ben Carson in his new autobiographical book, Ben Carson "The Man, and His Many Careers"!

 

[nat4900]

Given some of the responses to my O/P, maybe I need to write "sarcasm alert" at the beginning.

 

[Freewill]

Really, those ancient Egyptians must have either been nuts or have had a weird sense of humor (at least according to that renowned Egyptologist, Dr. Ben Carson) when placing dead bodies next to their food source.

No dead bodies were found in any of the pyramids at Giza. We have been over this, you just keep rehashing the BS.

 

[Arianrhod]

No dead bodies were found in any of the pyramids at Giza.

Was any grain found in any of them?

 

[Freewill]

No dead bodies were found in any of the pyramids at Giza.

Was any grain found in any of them?

I don't think they were for grain storage but that idea has been around for a very long time. What is the purpose, if a tomb, for the large open rooms, at least in the Great Pyramid? Grain could have been eaten by rodents, if there were actually grain in them, which I doubt. But then again the Great Pyramid wasn't a tomb.