[CRUNCH] 6 AMAZING Pyramid Coincidences That CONFUSE
Scientists
Some say it’s just a coincidence, while others say it’s part of a bigger story,
the mysterious pyramids have always confused the public and
scientist alike, and here are the 6 AMAZING Pyramid Coincidences That CONFUSE Scientists:
6. They Withstood The Test Of Time The pyramids are some of the oldest megastructures,
if not the oldest megastructures that still stand today. They were constructed around
2500 BC, and while many other buildings from that
era were discovered, none of them were even close to as large or as well-maintained as
the great pyramids of Giza. In fact, out of the
7 wonders of the ancient world, the pyramids were
actually the oldest wonder that was featured on it, but do you know how many of those wonders
are still standing today? One! The pyramids managed to outlast not just its contemporaries,
but also structures that were built thousands
of years after it with more advanced technology, while
only suffering minor exterior damage. So how come, despite not having any access
to advanced technology, the pyramids managed to last such a long time without collapsing?
No one truly knows. It can’t have been the structure
of the pyramids themselves, as other pyramids around the world, including those that are
much more recent than this one and ones that use
similar materials, have managed to collapse while
the Giza pyramids stand tall above the rest. Either we haven’t truly discovered the extent
of the engineering that went into making these incredible
pyramids, or there may be something protecting the pyramids that we don’t know
of yet. 5. Other Pyramids Around The World
The Pyramids of Giza are far from the only pyramids in the world, and there are numerous
other examples of pyramids being built in faraway
regions of the world. Egypt itself has over 100
pyramids and neighboring Sudan has more pyramids than any other country on earth, with over
220 pyramids. While pyramids in these two neighboring countries are nothing of a surprise,
it gets really interesting when you consider
how far away the influence of pyramids actually reached.
There have also been pyramids found all over ancient South America, with a lot of them
being impressive, iconic structures in their own
right. There were also structures that slightly resembled pyramids found in other parts of
the world. What’s shocking about this is that they
used the same construction methods that the Egyptians used to build their pyramids, despite
there being absolutely zero cross-Atlantic contact during the time. There is absolutely
no way that the Mesoamericans could’ve had any
knowledge about the Egyptians, leading to some
wondering if there was actually any cross-Atlantic contact during that time that we simply don’t
know of yet. It certainly is one of those questions that we might never have the answer
to.
4. True North The origins of the pyramids of Giza are uncertain,
although it’s generally agreed upon that the
pyramids were built to house the mummified bodies of the three pharaohs that were buried
there, King Khufu, King Khafre, and King Menkaure, from the largest pyramid to the smallest,
indicating their significance and level of respect. The mythological reasons behind the
construction of the pyramids are something that has always troubled scientists when it
came to understanding them. Many historians and scientists
have tried to uncover the mythological mystery behind them, and one of them definitely
stands out. All of the pyramids point towards the true
north. True north is the direction of the earth’s surface
that aligns itself with the north pole of the world. Considering the north pole is an
entirely hypothetical point that wasn’t even thought
to have been studied by Egyptians or any other civilization of the time, it really makes
you wonder how much of what we know about the world
today stems from research done thousands of years ago in the ancient Egyptian civilization.
Regardless, what we know now is not thought to have been a result of research in ancient
Egypt but rather just an independent coincidence. Whether it’s truly a coincidence or not,
is for you to decide, but there is a possibility
that due to discoveries like these, the ancient Egyptian
civilization might’ve been more advanced than we could’ve ever thought of before.
3. Noah’s Ark This is not the first time religion has been
associated with the great pyramids of Giza, as
followers of many religions from polytheistic indigenous religions to monotheistic Abrahamic
religions have all had their own theories about the pyramids, their use, and their origins.
Noah’s Ark is one of the bible’s most well-known
stories, and it consists of the biblical Noah rescuing
himself, his family, and one kind of every species of animal on earth, in an Ark or a
ship from a massive flood that would’ve otherwise devastated
most of the world. It’s believed that God himself commanded Noah to build the Ark, so
he and the animals would be spared from such a
flood. Now, according to the biblical narrative,
Noah lived to be around 900 years old, so it’s entirely
possible that he lived around the same time the pyramids were built. The search for Noah’s
ark has been going on for thousands of years,
and so far, no results have been yielded, leading to a
lot of scientists claiming that the story is disproven. However, one theory suggests
that Noah’s Ark might’ve been the Great Pyramids of
Giza. Think about it, they’re the only structures that
were massive enough to conduct such an operation, they’re around the same region (the middle
east and north Africa) as the region which Noah belonged to, and as many scientists have
already pointed out, it would’ve been nearly impossible to build such a structure based
on the technology available at the time. While it’s
unlikely, it’s certainly a theory that makes you think.
The pyramids may have been built through divine intervention after all.
2. The pyramids weren’t built by slaves
Slavery was a common practice worldwide until the late 19th century, and before then, most
of the world’s most iconic structures were
built by enslaved people against their will, and not by
willing workers who were paid some sort of wage for their work. The Egyptian pyramids,
too, were always thought to have been built by
brutally treated slaves who worked day-in and day-
out transporting blocks and being abused. This mostly stems from the accounts of ancient
Greek historians, who were amazed at the engineering feats of the great pyramids and tried to
make some sense of how it was possible to build something so amazing, such a long time
ago. We believed these theories as recently as
the 90s, however, upon more research, the workers
who built the pyramids might’ve been treated fairly after all. There were indications that
the workers actually lived with their families
in the nearby fields of the Nile, were often paid in gold
and beer, showed very little signs of abuse on their bodies, and actually were incredibly
healthy, being fed prime cuts of beef and other nutritious
foods. The labour that went into the construction was also not as harsh as previously
thought, as the ancient Egyptians had access to many man-powered “machines” that helped
with the transportation of the massive building blocks that made up the pyramids.
1. The Speed of Light (thumbnail) We don’t know the true extent of the mathematical
knowledge that the ancient Egyptians had, nor do we know to what extent math was used
in Egyptian mythology or astrology, however one
“coincidence” had scientists and people shocked. The coordinates of the Great Pyramid
of Giza (29.9792458°N), and the speed of light(299,792,458ms)
are almost the exact same numbers. The speed of light is thought to have first
been discovered by Danish Astronomer Ole Roemer in
1676, so how come the Great Pyramid of Giza was built on the exact coordinates as that
thousand of years before the discovery? This is something we don’t know, and we
might never truly know the answer to. As far as we, or
scientists, are concerned, this is all purely just a coincidence, and nothing else, but
not everyone is convinced. The ancient Egyptians
might’ve actually known about the speed of light
thousands of years before the rest of the world caught on, but we’ll probably never
truly know whether this is a coincidence or if it has
some sort of meaning behind it.
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