[Nuke]

again my sorce was (insert name of a documentry station here, seriously i make no clames to be scientific nor being an acedimic, searching for someone with a big fat degree to quote. when i look at history i use the same aproach as fixing a computer. i take a load of information that im pretty sure is not 100% accurate, sort through it and make the connections in my mind, and most the time my solution works. you can aproach the same problem scientifically, it will take you a hundred times longer and you stand the same chance of being wrong  ). anyway none the less wether the blocks were ruins or just some geological coincidince, there are too many other ruins in places where shouldnt be ruins, below sea level. i dont care if this hancock is a load of ****, if 10% of what he mentioned is correct, hes done his job as a scientist. as for the role of stellar alignment in the construction of pyramids. to build the first thing you need is an accurate means of measurement. its possible they used the stars as reference points to survey off of. most of the time when a building takes celestial events into consideration it susually for the purpose of keeping a calender, to know when to plant, ect.

[karajorma]

I'm willing to believe that the Eygptians built the pyramids to mirror the sky of Old Dynasty Egypt. What I'm not willing to believe is that they built them to mirror the sky of Egypt 12,500 years ago. That's a load of ****.

As for Hancock doing his job as a scientist if only 10% of his stuff is correct. That's simply not true either. It's not like he's going out and finding the ruins himself. He simply takes the work of real scientists, invents connections that don't exist and uses it to sell his books. No part of what he does is remotely similar to science.

[Flipside]

Well, the original pyramids were more like 'High Rise Mastaba', multiple tombs stacked on top of each other, it was probably this that gave them the idea, much as the Mayans did, though I don't think the 2 sets of pyramids are related in any way, it's just an obvious conclusion to jump to. The further lack of relationship is displayed by how the builders refined their designs. Egypt plated their pyramids with smooth limestone, which must have looked utterly incredible when they were new, since Limestone can act like a mirror in the right conditions in the Desert (Which further suggests that they were a monument to Ra, since they would would have been blindingly bright in full sunlight). The Mayans enhanced the 'Step' technique, building some incredibly complex tombs.

It's like the belief that Egypt was a 'Death Culture', it wasn't. They just had a LOT of room to build their mausoleums in. And a lot of Rock to build them with. They revered the dead, but thats the only point in which Egyptian and Mayan death culture even get close. No form of Egyptian magic ever suggested it was possible for Mummies to come alive, and, despite common belief, the 'Curse of Tutankhamun' is very much a matter of debate because of the wording of the 'Curse'.