ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sneferu, Bent Pyramid, Red Pyramid
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Major stone projects von daniken and his buddies would have us believe that the egyptian pyramid were the first huge stone structures built anywhere in the world. Pyramids were built to send a message to future generations; the egyptians were the inheritors of an ancient knowledge and wisdom. Its absurd to suggest that, as egyptologists do, that these monuments were the creation of the infancy of a civilization. There"s a huge accumulated knowledge and wisdom expressed in these monuments they are the end of something . Archaic egppt (1961) book: no data from before 5000 years ago. An attempt to present a general outline of our knowledge of egypt at the dawn of history as a civilized state, to which our modern world, directly and indirectly, owes so much . Emery agreed that dynastic egypt began when invading people arrived from the east and established .
