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Title: Egypt's Pyramids Were Grain Silos, Not Tombs
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Lead Stories
URL Source: http://ben-carson.leadstories.com/0 ... ere-grain-silos-not-tombs.html
Published: Nov 5, 2015
Author: Alan Duke
Post Date: 2015-11-05 08:58:10 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 29362
Comments: 60
Ben Carson, one of the Republican frontrunners in the race to be U.S. president, believes archeologists got it wrong about Egypt's pyramids. The huge stone structures were built to store massive quantities of grain, not to serve as tomb for rulers, according to what Carson said in a 1998 graduation speech at Michigan's Andrews University.
And the remarkable pyramids were built not by the pharaohs, but by the biblical Joseph, son of Jacob, Carson hypothesized.
In the Old Testament book of Genesis, Joseph was said to have "stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure," Carson said in a video of the address. Carson been a popular speaker for conservative Christian groups for years. Here's the speech posted on YouTube:
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#4. To: Willie Green (#0)
In the Old Testament book of Genesis, Joseph was said to have "stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure," I like a lot of what he says, but on this he's just ignorant. At that time, man did not have the tools or knowledge necessary to build the pyramids. One look at the interior will tell you that the pyramids were not grain silos.
This really is a red-letter day for LF. We finally found just one thing that you won't believe. Would it help if Carson said there was a conspiracy by powerful and cunning Egyptian elites to use the pyramids to store grain? That it was a conspiracy by the Pharaoh and his cronies to perpetrate a pyramid scheme on the helpless citizens of Egypt?
Really? Well, there are many things I don't believe - one of them being that you are anything but a dickwad. And then you ping the police state shill GrandIsland to the thread? Yeh - you're a real class act. Would it help if Carson said there was a conspiracy by powerful and cunning Egyptian elites to use the pyramids to store grain? And your insanity continues unabated.
Well, at least one of you are insane, and perhaps a dickwad as well. "Carson’s claims seem to be drawn in part from Egyptologist Dr Wyatt Thom’s 1984 book Egypt Egypt Egypt. According to Thom, the pyramids were built to house grain, and mummified bodies were placed inside as scarecrows to keep birds away. If you’re wondering how that makes sense given that the pyramids are enclosed structures, Thom claims this is because you’re “hamstrung by a very modern conception of birds”. It is entirely possible that the first pryamids had a dual purpose.
Neither the purported "Egypt Egypt Egypt" book or the supposed "Wyatt Thom" author are listed on Amazon. Or Google books. A Google search returns no references to an Egyptologist named "Wyatt Thom" prior to this week. In fact, the only references to "Wyatt Thom" returned by a Google search prior to this week are to a race horse in 2014 and to a 2015 high school graduate. The "hamstrung by a very modern conception of birds" quote is offered without a source document or link. As usual, the Guardian's "fact check" is a pack of lies.
According to Thom, the pyramids were built to house grain, and mummified bodies were placed inside as scarecrows to keep birds away. Neither the purported "Egypt Egypt Egypt" book or the supposed "Wyatt Thom" author are listed on Amazon. Or Google books. Yes, I also did a google search on it after my post. Kind of weird and does not help the credibility of the source of that info.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestAnd the remarkable pyramids were built not by the pharaohs, but by the biblical Joseph, son of Jacob, Carson hypothesized.
#7. To: Deckard, GrandIsland (#4)
#8. To: TooConservative (#7)
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We finally found just one thing that you won't believe.
#12. To: Deckard, TooConservative (#8)
And your insanity continues unabated.
#13. To: SOSO (#12)
According to Thom, the pyramids were built to house grain, and mummified bodies were placed inside as scarecrows to keep birds away.
#14. To: Roscoe (#13)
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