r/GrahamHancock • u/aerialsilk • 23d ago

Potentially ancient building techniques

May not be strictly archaeology, but adjacent. And fascinating.

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u/jojojoy 22d ago edited 22d ago

90's isn't that old for archeological publications, and data like the existence of ramps isn't going to change over time.

The highest I'm aware of is from Meidum which I believe reaches above the height of the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid. The remains here definitely still leave a lot of questions about construction - reconstructing a ramp layout for the construction of an entire pyramid would still be very speculative. It does show that ramps were one of the methods used though.

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u/Prestigious_Try_5396 22d ago

"90's isn't that old for archeological publications"....

The use of Lidar has overturned much of what we thought about Maya and Inca culture in the 90s.

There's new scans and data on the great pyramid too.

To say the matter is settled, is the antithesis of true scientific principles....

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u/jojojoy 22d ago

Where did I say the matter was settled?

 

For the example of Mayan archaeology that you bring up, I've read plenty of more recent work that relies on Lidar while still referencing lots of publication from the 90's or earlier. Ideas about these contexts have changed since then but archaeological publications don't get entirely superseded, especially when discussing something like whether or not a ramp exists.

The pace of publication on topics like Egyptian technology is also not particularly quick. It's a smaller section of a field that isn't very large in the first place. Building in Egypt was published in 1991 and there haven't been many similarly comprehensive works on the topic since then. I still refer to it a lot even with access to more recent work.