ANT210H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Graham Hancock, Walter Bryan Emery, Nekhen
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Topics in textbook: when did people develop math, engineering, architectural and practical skills for major construction, egypt. Were the great pyramids of giza suddenly built out of nowhere? (as von daniken claims) The egyptians used electricity because they were working on the tombs/drawing the blueprint so they needed light. Age of sphinx: the pyramids were granaries (ben carson believes this) Where grains are stored: at least they aren"t tombs, so what are they, pyramids were built by ancient aliens, pyrmaids encode some secret knowledge (from atlantis or some other advanced civilization) But we actually do know a lot about pyramids because the egyptians wrote about them and professionals have translated the text: however, some will argue that the interpretations were translated wrong. Beginning of civilization : today, we know it to be a complex process, developing independently in different places, but hundred years ago diffusion was explanation. Others claim it was from atlantis.
