10 Facts that Contradict the Pyramid Tomb Theory - Scott Creighton

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upon or otherwise contradict the pyramid tomb theory that are not presented here. So, let us begin. The Ten Facts 1) Pyramid Size The very first pyramids built by the ancient Egyptians were among the largest pyramids that they ever built over their 3,000+ year history. Indeed, the Great Pyramid of Khufu, believed to have been built ca. 2500 BCE, was the tallest manmade structure in the world until the construction of the Eiffel Tower in 1889. The question that arises here is why did the ancient Egyptians suddenly depart from building relatively low mastaba tombs made of mud-brick to building truly monumental pyramid structures of stone? Egyptologists point to what they perceive as an evolution of mastaba to step pyramid to true pyramid but fail to adequately explain why such a transition was deemed necessary—why were pyramids suddenly needed when the simple ‘pit and mound’, mastaba, shaft tomb and rock-cut tomb had been the burial tradition of the ancient Egyptians for hundreds, if not thousands, of years? Why suddenly did the king apparently require a ‘ladder’ (i.e. a large stepped pyramid) upon which he could ascend to the gods? Why did the king suddenly desire to ascend upon a smooth-sided true pyramid that supposedly mimicked the rays of the sun in order to ascend to the heavens when such a ‘device’ was obviously not necessary prior to the arrival of the pyramid? This sudden need for a really tall structure i.e. the pyramid to assist the king’s soul up into the heavens is all the more baffling given that the king’s ba (a part of the king’s soul) could actually fly up to the sky of its own accord since it had wings. Some commentators have argued that the pyramid was built so massive to reflect the greatness of the king or even to satisfy the king’s ego. This is somewhat improbable given that not a single official inscription bearing the king’s name has ever been found inside any of the early, giant pyramids—not one. Neither has any statues of any king been found inside these pyramids. Indeed, the only statue ever found of Khufu stands a mere three inches tall and was uncovered at the ancient royal burial site at Abydos, far from his pyramid at Giza. Had these structures been built to satisfy the vanity of kings—as some propose—then it is not unreasonable to expect that we would surely have found the names of these kings inscribed all over them along with a preponderance of massive statues in the king’s image. Their vanity would surely insist upon it. Furthermore, were it about ego, there is little doubt that Khufu, having had first bite of the Giza plateau cherry, would undoubtedly have built his pyramid on the imposing high ground at the centre of the plateau. By so doing Khufu would have closed the door on any future king trumping his own achievement and he would also have benefited from the natural causeway that ran from the Nile up to this central area. This would have saved Khufu the considerable headache and expense of having to build a massive artificial causeway deep into the Nile Valley. But such concerns seem not to have troubled Khufu as demonstrated by his decision to build his pyramid on the lower, north-east corner of the plateau, right on the cliff-face .
And were these massive structures built to reflect the greatness of the king (i.e. to satisfy their ego) then there is little doubt also that Menkaure, the builder of the smallest of the three main pyramids at Giza, would have chosen a virgin site for his pyramid rather than have its relative diminutive stature highlighted by its two illustrious predecessors on the Giza plateau. By building away from Giza at a virgin site, Menkaure could easily have avoided such comparisons being made. But he didn’t. So, as far as ego is concerned, the very placement of these monuments squarely contradicts such notions. Other commentators have suggested that the pyramid evolved from the mastaba in order to provide greater security from robbers in a similar way that the mud-brick mastaba developed from simple pit and mound graves that would quickly erode away, revealing the tomb that would then be ransacked by people and animals. But given that the pyramids were built by people who knew how to cut, move and stack huge blocks of stone from a quarry to build a pyramid, it would not have been lost on the king that the very same people could do precisely the reverse to dismantle and gain access to his pyramid. Certainly the pyramids—were these truly tombs of kings— would have guards and a priestly cult ‘protecting’ them from being plundered but often these were the very people the king had to fear the most. Given the importance in the ancient Egyptian religion of preserving the king’s remains from desecrators and tomb robbers, building a tomb the size of the giant pyramid would have served only to act as a beacon, advertising for miles around the precise whereabouts of the tomb to those who would do it and the king harm. This situation seems all the more puzzling given that we know for a fact that Khufu understood the first principle of ensuring a secure and permanent burial—you simply do not mark the location of the tomb. We know that Khufu understood this basic principle since he buried his own mother, Hetepheres I, in an unmarked tomb, 100 feet underground at Giza. This tomb was only discovered by a freak accident in 1925, having been undisturbed and undiscovered for almost 4,500 years. This raises the obvious question—if, as seems likely, Khufu understood the best means to secure a safe and permanent burial with the use of a completely invisible, unmarked, underground shaft-tomb, why then would he go against his own better judgement that he displayed in preparing a new underground tomb for his mother (her previous tomb having been plundered by tomb robbers) and build for himself the most highly visible tomb imaginable—and then not even put his name on it? As a secure and inconspicuous tomb, Khufu’s Great Pyramid would have completely failed. For Khufu to have believed that such a massive structure could function as a secure and permanent burial against tomb robbers contradicts his own common sense actions with regard to the safeguarding of his mother’s new underground tomb against further robbery. And common sense would have been as available to the ancient Egyptian culture as it is to our own. In short then—if, as Egyptologists assert, the early, giant pyramids were conceived and built as eternal tombs for the kings of the period then it seems that these monumental constructions were set in motion not for reasons relating to religion, nor to security or to vanity. It seems that there was some other, as yet unknown, motivation for the sudden introduction of such massively visible monuments.
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