egyptian lad, on 24 September 2012 - 08:45 PM, said:
Is herodotus a god to believe him?
Maybe some guys added words to his note?
You actually make a herodotus a god of egyptology, because he was dishonest guy, he didnt write anything about the giants too.
No Herodotus was not a god of Egyptology but that's not surprising when you consider there has never been such a thing as a god of Egyptology. Herodotus went to Egypt and wrote about what he saw and was told and while not everything he wrote is true, his account of the process is close enough to what we know about the process to be taken as valid.
If you believe his words were altered please show where his and any other sources that describe the process in a similar way were altered
Perhaps he didn't write about giants because there were no giants to write about.
egyptian lad said:
The existence of giants is found on portraits.........The huge tools that left too........the skeletons they hide.
Some guys say that ancient egyptians would write about their giantess, LOL it was their nature....would they say we were giants or something like that? they already put the giant portraits for next generations to understand how people were alike in the past.
My theory is on some of the paintings they were important people and as such painted larger to indicate that. This is by no means a fact and someone with more knowledge of Egypt could perhaps answer that.
egyptian lad said:
Plus, as i read before:
Some hieroglyphic quotes are left like " The power of one builder of pyramids = power of 1000 men"
That's reference for a giant humans of 12 meter tall for example?
That is called hyperbole. If it's facts you're interested in read up on the square-cube law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-cube_law
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If an animal were scaled up by a considerable amount, its relative muscular strength would be severely reduced, since the cross section of its muscles would increase by the square of the scaling factor while its mass would increase by the cube of the scaling factor. As a result of this, cardiovascular and respiratory functions would be severely burdened.
What that means is that a man 12 meters tall would have to use most of his strength just to stand and wouldn't have enough strength left to lift the pyramid blocks into place.