January 3, 2012
I had a date several months back. I told the guy I was in
school to become an anthropologist and he told me of his love of ancient
structures like temples and pyramids. He excitedly informed me of how the
aliens provided the knowledge to build them. Somebody please play matchmaker
for me, I'm clearly not cut out for the job. Anywho, I’m not
an Egyptologist, but day 2 went a long way to bettering my understanding of
how the aliens, I mean the Egyptians, acquired their knowledge…good old fashion
“trial and error.”
Me being a dork with the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops)
This is the entrance to the North Saqqara and the Step Pyramid complex.
The precursor to the pyramid was the mastaba- a mud brick, flat-topped platform which covered a tomb. King Zoser and his architect, Imhotep, decided to stack six of the
platforms. I’m not down playing their accomplishment or the structure; I’m
merely trying to stress its lack of otherworldliness.
Step Pyramid under renovation
Less than 100 years
later, at the beginning of a new dynasty, the Pharaoh Sneferu improved the
design by encasing the step understructure with a limestone encasement giving the pyramid a smooth, gleaming white surface. The only problem is on the first
attempt they got the angle wrong and ended up with a “Bent Pyramid.”
"Bent Pyramid" NOTICE the change of angle.
They
learned from this mistake and immediately built the “Red Pyramid” the first
true pyramid we recognize as the quintessential Egyptian pyramid. Ta-da!
I got
to enter this amazing structure, hunched over, I traveled down the 139 steps
(yes I counted, remember I’m a dork) to reach the inner chambers with step-arched
ceilings. 
NOTICE the stepped ceiling arch of the inner most chamber. It bears a strong resemblance to the stepped arches of the Inca, clear proof of alien contact!
Or maybe it's simply an easy way to build a strong arch.
I wonder what’s happening in Tahrir Square? Time to find out!
Sitting on the massive base stones at the Pyramid of Khafre
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