The World According to Mark

By Mark Tabola

There are many things in this world that are ancient, and some of those are also mysteries. Like, how did they actually build the pyramids in Egypt?  I have to admit that this is one of those things that has me wondering how it occurred, myself.  Mass manpower may be the answer, but there are still many questions about how that occurred.  I've heard a great many interesting and unique ideas of how things were done, a few of which have made the claims that they have "evidence" to support it.

The BBC News had a report in recent weeks that sheds some new light on this topic. Here are some snippets from the original article:

A research team from the University of North Carolina Wilmington has discovered that the pyramids are likely to have been built along a long-lost, ancient branch of the River Nile - which is now hidden under desert and farmland.  But up until now, "nobody was certain of the location, the shape, the size or proximity of this mega waterway to the actual pyramids site," according to one of the study's authors, Prof Eman Ghoneim.

The research team used a mess of methods to get hard data to show what lay beneath the sands, and their findings had me a bit astonished. They found evidence of long dried out riverbeds and buildings. And over the centuries, the sands have covered them up and time has forgotten their existence. And they found the long-lost "Ahramat" branch, long dried up, which borders all 31 pyramids.

Using the river solves some of the mysteries of the pyramids, but not all of them. But it is a major step to have now verified this discovery, as it does fill in many of the gaps. It answers the questions about how the huge blocks were moved so far from their quarries, and it answers them in ways that reduces the manpower needed to do so.  And who knows what future study will find? Maybe in my lifetime, there will be even more discovery on how these structures were built.