Here's a new pyramid building idea that hasn't been considered yet:
1. Use graphite to facilitate sliding the blocks.
2. Install the first course of blocks (no ramp is needed).
3. Build temporary sandbag or other material platforms, next to the outside of two opposing diagonal corners of the pyramid, level with the top of the blocks and fill with loose sand.
4. Build temporary sandbag ramps, filled with loose sand, along the sides of the pyramid to the previously built sandbag platforms.
5. Repeat the technique for each block course.
6. Disassemble the sandbags while finishing the pyramid from top to bottom
This gives building ramps on four sides of the pyramid.
Here's a clarification of the idea:
I've read that each side of the pyramid base is about 756 feet. If the first course of blocks are 10 feet high, you could use about a 700 foot ramp for an upward slope. This is used to build the second course and as a staging area to build the slope up to the third course. You alternate the opposing diagonal corner platforms on each course up. Basically it's a modified zigzag ramp on four sides of the pyramid. Use a carpet to drag the blocks up the slope. Use wet sand, wood or bamboo on the sandbags. Build the pyramid from the center outwards. These are short ramps up parallel to the four sides of the pyramid. The length of the ramps depends upon the maximum permissible steepness of the ramp, which can be variable at each course. The maximum course ramp length is about 700 feet. Use animals to help with the pulling.
Rachael Weisz played Hypatia in Agora. It was a limited release in 2009 I now understand why. Seems to have been historically accurate other than Weisz being much younger.
I assume that when the article states that corn was found in his stomach, this the old use of the word as a synonym for grain, and not describing the maize plant indigenous to the Americas being found in an Iron Age European stomach. Otherwise this would be an even more interesting find.
I’m not sure in this case that “posession is 9/ tenths of the law”. Public admission that the artifacts were “looted and stolen” regardless of the reason seems to me justification to return these things to their rightful owners. Why are things like this regarded as ‘spoils of war’ anyhow? I suspect that a lot of them were kept by individuals and can probably never be recovered, OR, maybe sold to the museums, who now have money invested and now consider that they own them. A prickly thicket, eh??
Amazing what can be learned or inferred from such a small piece of of some former living things. Makes one wonder how much was missed in the past because the artifact or remains were too little to identify accurately. Kudos for the folks that spent what must have been countless hours in study and analysis to come up with this info.
Since this article is "moronic" to you, please explain and defend your statement with facts and sources. If you cannot, then I'm afraid the only moronic thing here is you.
I never believed the out of Africa theory and I'm Black American. It never made any sense. I've always assumed that different people lived all over the planet just as different plants and animals live all over the planet. At times science makes me scratch my head.
It's interesting that little to no documentation can be found on the baoli's construction. I wonder what is typically done in discovering documenttion for other specific ancient structures?
Why is there such a prevalence, to try and place yourself back in a point of time when Neanderthals never existed?... 60,000 years old? In reality it's more like 6,000 and even that's being generous. If 60,000 is in fact true, then how many many many thousands of years older would the Afrikaner be compared to the Neanderthal? .... I mean because we, Afrakans, have sculptures, paintings, structures, pictures, texts and of course genetic DNA make up? What does the Neanderthal have? Apart from always trying to fit into somewhere that it doesn't belond. I mean, Ausar civilised with you the black grape, the amino acids. You knew nothing about that? It's even documented that it was solely men who ever migrated because Neanderthals would kill the older women first then work there way down. Where do you think the chichiman comes from? That's a Neanderthal thing as you can see there's never any females shown? It's always just these monkey rhesus blood type dudes? Look at the Afrakan. We know all life comes from a female .... case closed. Sulphuric parasites.
Well, Sarah, I'm sorry but your skepticism needs some updating as a matter of fact. First of all, psychedelic mushrooms (Psilocybe, Panaeolus sp.) are found in South Africa (and logic dictates those are not restrained to this country), and have been found and used as well during those happy days when the Sahara was green. Have you ever heard about the drawing from Neolithic age in Algerian tassili, depicting "mushroom being" and the famous "mushroom man" ?
As about the effect of muhsrroms being temporary, well, pharmacologically speaking, yes, but mushroom work well "beyond the flesh" and the changes they bring can be life long. Once the eyes are opened, they stay open! :)
Ok, Not a race war, but an “armed conflict” – sound familiar, anyone? Could just as easily been a religous war – some group killing crocodiles that some other group worshipped. Human nature hasn’t changed much, eh?
The science is interesting, not too many years ago the broken weapons might not have been noticed, and the skeletons sold to some side-show or lost in the bowels of some museum. Now, thanks to this, we know that we’ve been killing each other for a really long time, but is that really news? It’s no surprise to me. Enjoyed the article, though, and the comments.
Mali was as rich in knowledge as in gold. Read “The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu” by Joshua Hammer . It’s the story of dedicated individuals that managed to store and hide 350,000 precious manuscripts from private homes and individuals from the depredations and threatened destruction by ISIS. Those are people so dedicated to the preservation of learning that they risked their lives to smuggle books! They included writings from the time of Christ up to around the 16 & 17 th centuries, when ‘western’ civilizations began disseminating the negro bushmen/aboriginies stories to justify slavery of Africans. Timbuktu in particular, was renowned as a center of learning, and scholars from Egypt, Rome, Greece, and even India came to that remote place to study.
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This.
His self-entitlement is beyond staggering. He got exactly what he deserved.
Physical immortality is way overrated.
I wonder if this practice helped to spread disease.
Here's a new pyramid building idea that hasn't been considered yet:
1. Use graphite to facilitate sliding the blocks.
2. Install the first course of blocks (no ramp is needed).
3. Build temporary sandbag or other material platforms, next to the outside of two opposing diagonal corners of the pyramid, level with the top of the blocks and fill with loose sand.
4. Build temporary sandbag ramps, filled with loose sand, along the sides of the pyramid to the previously built sandbag platforms.
5. Repeat the technique for each block course.
6. Disassemble the sandbags while finishing the pyramid from top to bottom
This gives building ramps on four sides of the pyramid.
Here's a clarification of the idea:
I've read that each side of the pyramid base is about 756 feet. If the first course of blocks are 10 feet high, you could use about a 700 foot ramp for an upward slope. This is used to build the second course and as a staging area to build the slope up to the third course. You alternate the opposing diagonal corner platforms on each course up. Basically it's a modified zigzag ramp on four sides of the pyramid. Use a carpet to drag the blocks up the slope. Use wet sand, wood or bamboo on the sandbags. Build the pyramid from the center outwards. These are short ramps up parallel to the four sides of the pyramid. The length of the ramps depends upon the maximum permissible steepness of the ramp, which can be variable at each course. The maximum course ramp length is about 700 feet. Use animals to help with the pulling.
https://classroom.synonym.com/animal-used-heavy-labor-ancient-egypt-1400...
Great read.
Rachael Weisz played Hypatia in Agora. It was a limited release in 2009 I now understand why. Seems to have been historically accurate other than Weisz being much younger.
My opinion it is worth the time spent watching.
I assume that when the article states that corn was found in his stomach, this the old use of the word as a synonym for grain, and not describing the maize plant indigenous to the Americas being found in an Iron Age European stomach. Otherwise this would be an even more interesting find.
I’m not sure in this case that “posession is 9/ tenths of the law”. Public admission that the artifacts were “looted and stolen” regardless of the reason seems to me justification to return these things to their rightful owners. Why are things like this regarded as ‘spoils of war’ anyhow? I suspect that a lot of them were kept by individuals and can probably never be recovered, OR, maybe sold to the museums, who now have money invested and now consider that they own them. A prickly thicket, eh??
Amazing what can be learned or inferred from such a small piece of of some former living things. Makes one wonder how much was missed in the past because the artifact or remains were too little to identify accurately. Kudos for the folks that spent what must have been countless hours in study and analysis to come up with this info.
Since this article is "moronic" to you, please explain and defend your statement with facts and sources. If you cannot, then I'm afraid the only moronic thing here is you.
I never believed the out of Africa theory and I'm Black American. It never made any sense. I've always assumed that different people lived all over the planet just as different plants and animals live all over the planet. At times science makes me scratch my head.
It's interesting that little to no documentation can be found on the baoli's construction. I wonder what is typically done in discovering documenttion for other specific ancient structures?
What about the Ibogaine root? The usage is past down from antiquity .
The Plague has killed a number of Al-Qaeda that were most likely trying to turn it into a biological weapon. Now that bad karma. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1121842/Al-Qaeda-hit-Black-Deat...
Why is there such a prevalence, to try and place yourself back in a point of time when Neanderthals never existed?... 60,000 years old? In reality it's more like 6,000 and even that's being generous. If 60,000 is in fact true, then how many many many thousands of years older would the Afrikaner be compared to the Neanderthal? .... I mean because we, Afrakans, have sculptures, paintings, structures, pictures, texts and of course genetic DNA make up? What does the Neanderthal have? Apart from always trying to fit into somewhere that it doesn't belond. I mean, Ausar civilised with you the black grape, the amino acids. You knew nothing about that? It's even documented that it was solely men who ever migrated because Neanderthals would kill the older women first then work there way down. Where do you think the chichiman comes from? That's a Neanderthal thing as you can see there's never any females shown? It's always just these monkey rhesus blood type dudes? Look at the Afrakan. We know all life comes from a female .... case closed. Sulphuric parasites.
Well, Sarah, I'm sorry but your skepticism needs some updating as a matter of fact. First of all, psychedelic mushrooms (Psilocybe, Panaeolus sp.) are found in South Africa (and logic dictates those are not restrained to this country), and have been found and used as well during those happy days when the Sahara was green. Have you ever heard about the drawing from Neolithic age in Algerian tassili, depicting "mushroom being" and the famous "mushroom man" ?
As about the effect of muhsrroms being temporary, well, pharmacologically speaking, yes, but mushroom work well "beyond the flesh" and the changes they bring can be life long. Once the eyes are opened, they stay open! :)
When I think of Egyptian sailors, I think of sailing up and down the Nile. Thank you for expanding my knowledge
Ok, Not a race war, but an “armed conflict” – sound familiar, anyone? Could just as easily been a religous war – some group killing crocodiles that some other group worshipped. Human nature hasn’t changed much, eh?
The science is interesting, not too many years ago the broken weapons might not have been noticed, and the skeletons sold to some side-show or lost in the bowels of some museum. Now, thanks to this, we know that we’ve been killing each other for a really long time, but is that really news? It’s no surprise to me. Enjoyed the article, though, and the comments.
Mali was as rich in knowledge as in gold. Read “The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu” by Joshua Hammer . It’s the story of dedicated individuals that managed to store and hide 350,000 precious manuscripts from private homes and individuals from the depredations and threatened destruction by ISIS. Those are people so dedicated to the preservation of learning that they risked their lives to smuggle books! They included writings from the time of Christ up to around the 16 & 17 th centuries, when ‘western’ civilizations began disseminating the negro bushmen/aboriginies stories to justify slavery of Africans. Timbuktu in particular, was renowned as a center of learning, and scholars from Egypt, Rome, Greece, and even India came to that remote place to study.
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