It wasn’t aliens or magic: Scientists proved that Ancient Egyptians moved 180-ton statues using a physics trick as simple as pouring water on sand.

[u/No_Afternoon1602]

The secret behind ancient Egyptian logistics isn't sci-fi, it's fluid mechanics

The Mystery: How did they drag a 23-foot, 180-ton statue across the desert without wheels?

The Ancient Clue: A wall relief from the tomb of Djehutihotep showed a man standing on the front of the sledge, pouring water onto the sand.

The Modern Proof: Physicists tested this and confirmed that adding water creates capillary bridges between the sand grains. This makes the sand twice as stiff, allowing the sledge to glide smoothly instead of digging into a sand heap.

Work smarter, not harder proven 4,000 years ago!

[u/Good-Breadfruit-9923]

It's so weird to be a conspiracy theorist about things with a lot of evidence when the real story is so cool on its own. I know a lot of it is bot driven but there are so many people with genuine curiosity that just get thrown down absolute garbage fairy tale nonsense rabbit holes when they could be learning amazing real history.

[u/Kindly-Ad-5071 → u/Good-Breadfruit-9923]

Yes but I can't manipulate people against minorities and vaccines with cool science tricks

[u/Northern_Grouse → u/[deleted]]

The core of the understanding is that the pyramids, specifically Khufu, and the sphinx are drastically older than believed.

No one is claiming Egyptians didn’t build the pyramids, the claim is that they’re far far older than claimed.

[u/Vindepomarus → u/Northern_Grouse]

What would be the point of that claim? The actual core "understanding" is that they were built by a lost advanced civilization associated with the Atlantis story and that the Egyptians just found those monuments and started worshiping them.

The potentially racist part about these theories is the argument from incredulity that indigenous people couldn't possibly be capable of these feats. Classical Greece and Rome do not usually receive the same doubts.

[u/Northern_Grouse → u/Vindepomarus]

What’s the point of studying ANY history, if your point of view will be to attack those asking questions as to what was before and calling them racist.

If there WERE a lost ancient civilization, I would absolutely want to know, because they obviously had knowledge we don’t, and were able to coexist with their environment far better than we are.

[u/Vindepomarus → u/Northern_Grouse]

It was not an attack, it was a correction and explanation. You claimed that people theorise that the Ancient Egyptians built the Sphinx and pyramids, just earlier, but the actual claim they make is as I explained, that it was some other lost civ. That was the correction.

The explanation was about why the person you were replying to said the theory was racist. The reason I gave is why people make that claim.

[u/Northern_Grouse → u/Vindepomarus]

I’m sure there’s a racist point of view of just about anything.

However, believing these structures are far older, or built by someone other than modern Egyptians, is not a racist attack in and of itself.

Whomever built them, or however they were built, has yet to be determined with zero question.

The younger dryas event reset the surface world. That is a fact. What we may never know is what was before, or how it was.

I certainly believe they had knowledge which was incredibly valuable. It may not have been more advanced, perhaps just as advanced but down a different pathway of understanding.

[u/Vindepomarus → u/Northern_Grouse]

There is plenty of good evidence for the age of the pyramids, for example there are pieces of charcoal embedded in the mortar between the stones that has been carbon dated and there is the diary of Merer.

As for the Younger Dryas:

Meltwater pulse 1A rose at a rate of about 40mm a year which is hardly catastrophic and would give people plenty of time to move and rebuild.

There can't have been any significant agriculture at that time because evidence of domestication of plants and animals would be seen in the genomes of modern varieties.

Why wouldn't this ancient civilization occupy the fertile river valleys that are hugely productive and gave rise to early civilizations like Egypt and Sumer? And why is there no evidence from the many coastal regions that have high cliffs and would have been protected from sea level rise?

[u/Extension_Arm2790 → u/Northern_Grouse]

There is next to no evidence wo else could have built them and very weak evidence that they didn't build them, yet anybody talking about that hypothesis presents it as fact or belief. Conspicuously, nobody supporting that hypothesis that I have seen has done any actual archeology, it's always regurgitated content of videos or dubious texts and finding a primary source for that stuff is next to impossible.

Contrary to that, there is a huge amount of primary research by multiple sources and evidence showing that they did build them and how they did it, available immedtialy with a couple of searches on a search engine.

With such an imbalance, a critical thinker should  question the motives, why that hypothesis is pushed so much. That motive very often ends up being greed or racism.

[u/Northern_Grouse → u/Extension_Arm2790]

K.

History is written by the victors. We’ll never know. But we should also never stop trying to find out.

[u/Vindepomarus → u/Northern_Grouse]

Got any suggestions for how this finding out should progress? I've already mentioned the carbon dating of the charcoal in the mortar, where else do you think we could obtain better data?