zoser, on 12 February 2013 - 09:04 AM, said:
Repeated assertion will not do. You have to say where Al Mamun wrote that he found a body. He found no treasure either. You have to explain why the GP is not adorned with art, colour, Heiroglyphic texts relating to the Kings passage into the after life.
It's just not there.
You have to explain why the passage ways are not designed for human beings. Some are just too low for a dignified funery procession.
Nothing fits.
That is the nature of objective facts psyche. No argument can change it.
No one is going to come up with a new revelation in the next few months to alter this. The skeptics are stuck with these facts and will continue to embarrass for decades to come.
Better to admit it now that it was all tosh to begin with and begin afresh I would have thought.
It is not repeated assertion, I have a tunnel, what have you got? A whacko claim. Not even a hypothesis. The nature is that grave robbing activities are blatant at the Great Pyramid, the evidence is physical, and I doubt your would know that powdered mummy was a viable commodity to grave robbers who sold it off as an ancient cure all, you would have loved some I bet.
Gold was not the only thing of value in the pyramids, you should really have realised that by now. But then again, you do not think the people who made the tunnel to rob the place took that either do you? Obviously a toga party, or similar happened I take it.
LINK - Powdered Mummy, Gladiator Blood, and other Historical Medicines Made from Human Corpses
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Mummy Powder: From the 12th through the 17th century, any European apothecary worth his smelling salts kept a supply of mummy powder on hand. Mummy was the health food of the Middle Ages, guaranteed to cure everything from headaches to stomach ulcers, and plasters made from mummy powder were often slathered over tumors. Humans weren't the only beings alleged to benefit from mummy; sick hawks were thought to benefit from their own grade of mummy powder. The demand for mummified far outweighed the supply; one couldn't just walk up to a pyramid-shaped rock and start digging. One could, however, dig up some dead and desiccated bodies, grind them down, and sell them as "mummy powder." It's doubtful anyone ever noticed the difference.
What's particularly interesting about the mummy powder remedy is that the entire fad might have arisen from a misunderstanding. Naturally occurring bitumen from the Dead Sea was a commonly prescribed medication in ancient times for all sorts of ailments: cataracts, leprosy, gout, dysentery, clotted blood, shortness of breath, rheumatoid arthritis. The Persian word for wax, mumia, was often used to describe bitumen, and it's from that same word that we derive our word "mummy." Mumia also refers to another substance (which was not bitumen) that was used in the embalming of mummies. When apothecaries were not able to obtain naturally occurring bitumen (mumia, they sometimes turned to this false bitumen (also mumia), which they supposedly obtained from ground-up mummies. Eventually conventional wisdom held that it was the mummy itself, not the substance used in its embalming, that contained the medicinal qualities. In medical treatises, the words "mumia" and "mummy," became synonymous.
But that is nothing, you should read about Mellified man, or convict hand, both very powerful remedies to these "highly advanced" people you speak of. And you know what it all fits!! Despite your assertion to the contrary! I have no problem being "stuck" with these facts, why do you think your imagination carries any weight against fact? Is it because of the kind hearted Abe who keeps feeding you?
