Pyramids were built with concrete rather than rocks, scientists claim
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Wrongo, The oldest wheel was discovered in Mesopotamia and probably dates back to 3,500 B.C. Also, many credible historians believe the wheel dates back to 5000 to 6000 B.C. and was created in Asia.
Ausm
What does that have to do with chariots in tombs? Or with Egypt? Mesopotamia != Egypt.
Obviously the wheel came before the chariot. But oldest wheel and varying uses of wheels in specific places or manners do not necessarily have any relationship.
Well if you know anything about the growth of civilization then you would understand how there could be a relationship there.
Ausm
EarthwormJim
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Simply because the wheel had been invented in one region, does not mean it was instantly available in another.
Can you imagine their conversations in heaven?
People like Alexander Graham bell and his phone, Thomas Edison and all his stuff, but this guy pimp slaps them all with his "I invented the wheel, bitch!"
I think he was suggesting you should find out the region where early Egyptians came from. But yes, that sentence about the wheel struck me as very odd. Some people claim they used pulleys, however the wheel was not around. One of those claims is obviously not correct
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So
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Except no "guy" invented the wheel. People rolled things on logs. Then someone got the idea of attaching the logs to the cart, but to do that, you needed to make the part you attached smaller. Then another guy came along and made two pieces and attached them together. Then centuries later another guy came along and realized that you could use spokes instead of a solid wheel to make it lighter. Then millenia passed, and some guy realized that you could but some sort of tire on the wheel. Then rubber was invented and the metal rim got replaced by a rubber one. Then someone created the inflatable tire...and so on...until we get the modern wheel.
Now, harnessing fire. That guy was ballsy.
I have a hard time believing this. Concrete is credited to the Romans as the inventors. Until my professor passes the report down to us (as he likes to do with stuff like this), I'm gonna have to be extremely skeptical.
Fern
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Makes sense to me. I've long thought that was it was instead of cutting/hauling stones. Explains how seamlessly they fit together as well.
They didn't need the wheel before 1500BC. They used the Goa'uld space ships for travel until the great slave rebellion when Raa ( or was Apophis) was kicked out.
Fern
They didn't need the wheel before 1500BC. They used the Goa'uld space ships for travel until the great slave rebellion when Raa ( or was Apophis) was kicked out.
Fern
Chariots weren't introduced into Egypt until the Hyksos invasion in the Second Intermediate Period. The Egyptians didn't have indigenous horses to pull the chariots. The arrival of the Hyksos introduced horses. They hadn't domesticated the Camel till much later. For reference, the Great Pyramids were built in the 5th Dynasty while the 2nd Intermediate period started during the 13th Dynasty.
GAAAh...this stupid pouring theory has already been disproven many times! If they were "poured", why is there still a gap between each individual brick? Wouldn't they be all one long strip? It's idiotic.
brandonbull
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this is pretty dumb, i dont buy it.
first of all, the pyramids are some of the oldest structures the ancient egyptians built. had they been able to make cement, they would've used that know how in their later constructions in luxor and aswan. they obviously didnt. obelisks, which didnt start appearing until centuries after the pyramids, were undeniably quarried out of limestone. proof of that can be found at this aswan quarry.
also, i think the egyptians had some concept of the wheel. they worshipped the scarab, after all, an insect known for rolling balls of dirt over the ground.
the article, in my opinion, is full of it.
first of all, the pyramids are some of the oldest structures the ancient egyptians built. had they been able to make cement, they would've used that know how in their later constructions in luxor and aswan. they obviously didnt. obelisks, which didnt start appearing until centuries after the pyramids, were undeniably quarried out of limestone. proof of that can be found at this aswan quarry.
also, i think the egyptians had some concept of the wheel. they worshipped the scarab, after all, an insect known for rolling balls of dirt over the ground.
the article, in my opinion, is full of it.
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