QUOTE(bosnian @ Apr 27 2006, 02:26 PM) [snapback]1165991[/snapback]
Thank you for those info mate. But what if happend something unusual and the distance was more than 500 meters? Perhaps even 500.000 meters???
Pyramidal shape is something what we still do not understand (my opinion) in every aspect?
Continental drift does fluctuate. The maximum rate of movement ever found was roughly 17 cm/year. At that rate, the continents could move a whopping 170,000 centimeters in 10,000 years - which comes out to only 1700 meters, or just barely over a mile (nearly 1 3/4 kilometers). That's assuming the rate of movement could be maintained at its maximum for 10,000 years. Even at that rate, the continents would not move even a fraction of the distance needed to have South American pyramid builders co-mingling with Egyptians.
Of course, one could argue that the pyramid builders originated in Africa, spread through China, and crossed the land bridge into the Americas. However, there are problems with this theory, beyond the afforementioned differences in construction and purpose. There are no known pyramids in North America; only mounds, and those are associated with the east and midwest rather than the west coast. Even if the pyramid-builders crossed through the east on their journey south, they would have to have settled in the southwest at some point.
The various pyramid building cultures began making pyramids at different times. The earliest Egyptian pyramids date to around 4600 years ago; the earliest Mesoamerican pyramids were begun only around 2900 years ago. I should also note that at the time of the earliest Egyptian pyramids the land bridge to the Americas was already submerged, and the Americas were in fact heavily populated.
In short, I do not see any connection beyond the (very) general shape of the structures, which is easily explained as the pyramid is a very stable structure and is, reletively speaking, easy to construct on a massive scale. I have seen nothing to date which implies to me that these are descendants of the same pyramid-building culture.
-Pilgrim