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Riddles of ancient Egypt
Egypt is a country that is full of sounds and echoes of its rich past, which has a history of several millennia.
This is a country of catchy beauty and exciting colors - a sky blue sea and a desert, desert, desert.
Egypt can rightly be considered the cradle of civilization.
Today, this country is considered a treasure trove of ruins and cultural monuments, the birthplace of many myths and legends, ancient curses of the pyramids and untold riches hidden in them, as well as countless mysteries of the pharaohs.
Everyone who came here not just to lie on the warm sand by the sea, but to join the rich cultural heritage of the country, after visiting some monuments and pyramids will have a variety of impressions someone is puzzled, someone is delighted, someone is overwhelmed with an abundance of new information, but there is no one who would remain indifferent.
Egyptian Pyramids
The Egyptian Pyramids are one of the seven wonders of the world, their secrets, riddles and unusual healing power excite researchers and scientists from all over the world.
One of the main mysteries of Egypt is the mystery of the construction of seven of all the pyramids that have come down to us (3 pyramids on the Giza plateau, the Red and Broken Pyramid and the Medum pyramids), the construction of which is usually attributed to the rule of the fourth dynasty of the pharaohs.
Thanks to the fact that the Rosetta Stone was found by archaeologists in 1799, Egyptologists were able to decipher the hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptian alphabet and read everything that they left to their descendants on numerous architectural monuments, books and scrolls, vases and many other things found during excavations.
Here are just the most mysterious Great Pyramids, the technology of creating which excites the minds of builders, researchers and Egyptologists for more than one hundred years have not left us any messages – there are no inscriptions on their walls.
But you can go another way and try to look more closely at the blocks of stone that make up the great Pyramids, and what a professional builder or architect will easily consider not to see a layman's eye - the excellent quality of processing and grinding of stone blocks and their huge weight, even today there are only a few cranes in the world that could lift such blocks weighing more than one ton to such a height, how did the Egyptians manage it then?
At the same time, this is not the main oddity.
So one of the first pyramids in the form in which we are used to seeing them is considered to be the one that was built by Pharaoh Djoser, and according to experts, the masonry technology, the materials used, as well as the general architectural project, in principle, everything in it corresponds to the knowledge and level of development of society at the time when it was built.
But a hundred years later, the first great pyramid was erected on the Giza plateau, according to the official version, it was built under the leadership of Pharaoh Cheops.
And here is the first question, how, with a difference of only a hundred years, could it be possible to build such pyramids that are so different in quality and complexity?
The Pyramid of Cheops not only impresses with its size, but also the technologies that should have been used in its construction should be completely different from those that the Egyptians could have had at that time – massive blocks that have perfectly polished surfaces.
In addition, the grinding was carried out at a perfectly adjusted angle, which is unrealistic even with modern tools in our hands, and what can we say about those that were in Ancient Egypt.
There is only one conclusion for the century that passed between the reign of Pharaoh Djoser and the reign of Pharaoh Cheops, there was a technological leap in Egypt, although it touched exclusively on the construction of pyramids, without affecting all other spheres of life.
Moreover, this knowledge and skills were passed on by builders and architects throughout the reign of the fourth dynasty of the pharaohs, immediately after they were replaced on the throne by the fifth dynasty of the Egyptian kings, there is a leap in technology only in the opposite direction.
As if all the brilliant builders had disappeared, all the knowledge had been forgotten and the skills had gone into oblivion, nothing else of the same monumental and striking construction technology was being built in Ancient Egypt by an unsuitable reigning dynasty.
The pyramids, which were created later, were built from ordinary small stones or red unfired bricks, and in principle, society could build them even at the earliest stage of its development - only stones, sand, water and a large number of people were needed for their construction.
Historians, who, as you know, try to adhere to the official version of the development of civilizations, try their best to explain all the inaccuracies and discrepancies that arise when studying the secrets and riddles of Egypt.
So small pyramids, which are similar to all those found in Egypt and dating back to the reign of the same fourth dynasty, are usually explained by the fact that they were built for members of the royal family, i.e. in parallel with the construction of the Great Pyramids, the pharaoh builds rather frail structures for his wives and mothers, did they really not love and respect them so much.
Another mystery is that there is no information about the construction of these monuments in more than one written source.
So quite a lot of information can be found about the military exploits and failures of the pharaohs, about how ambassadors from other countries came to them to build a palace for the ruling pharaoh, but not a word about the fact that giants are being built that can glorify the rulers for centuries.
The ancient civilization of the gods of Egypt and its traces A stele was found in Egypt, the transcript of the records on which told scientists that the King of the fourth dynasty Cheops is engaged in the reconstruction of the great Sphinx, which protects the Great Pyramid belonging to the goddess Isis, but since according to the official version of Cheops the pyramid was built, and did not repair the existing one, this stele was recognized as a fake by historians.
But if you try to add up all these clues lying in plain sight, then one conclusion suggests itself: the Great Pyramids were not built by the pharaohs of any of the dynasties, their construction must be attributed several thousand years before the emergence of the state of Egypt.
Egyptologists are sure that the ancient Egyptian civilization of the pharaohs arose on the ruins of a much older and highly developed civilization, which for some reason disappeared from the face of the earth.
The number of facts and traces of such a civilization that can be found today throughout Egypt is amazing in its number.
So the huge statues and colossi that archaeologists find from time to time, and which date back to the reign of a particular dynasty, speak for themselves, the technologies used in their processing and moving in space are not available to humanity even now, and what can we say about ancient Egypt and the level of knowledge that that society possessed.
Moreover, many of these statues are made of quartzite, one of the hardest materials on the planet and with the help of primitive tools, such processing and grinding is hardly possible.
Also, more than one question is inspired by the fact that many statues do not have a face, it was repulsed by someone, and the one who did it put a lot of effort and time for this.
Another mystery is the huge sarcophagi, which are also made of very hard materials – granite, quartzite, basalt.
It is quite difficult to make such monolithic boxes with clear lines, perfect angles, and even special chamfers designed to ensure that the corners are not damaged during transportation, even at a modern factory with the latest technological developments in this area.
In addition, these sarcophagi are much larger than the human body, and if the lid is closed, it is possible to open it only with the help of superhuman efforts, so for whom they were intended, it is unlikely for an ordinary body or even a pharaoh.
In addition to the inexplicable mysteries associated with advanced technologies in construction and material processing by the ancient Egyptians or a civilization that lived long before them, we have also received other inexplicable and incredible knowledge from them, which humanity was able to confirm only recently with the technological progress that has occurred.
For example, the Zodiac of Osiris or the Dendera Zodiac, which was discovered on the ceiling of one of the Egyptian chapels in Dendera.
This kind of zodiac calendar reflects all the cyclical processes of our planet.
In addition to the 12 zodiac constellations known to everyone, you can see our entire solar system there, along with the earth, which moves around the sun.
Researchers and archaeologists continue to find truly amazing finds and make discoveries that amaze the imagination of modern man, so only 70 years ago, systems of tunnels and catacombs were discovered under the Giza plateau, which are still being studied.
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