I was mostly joking about the reception you had for that egyptologist video, The Mystery of the Sphinx later marketed by UFO TV and the whole fantasy around Egypt and the pyramids.
It felt like you were doubting what she was saying though (which is most certainly based on facts / findings / years of research).
I definitely hear you about conservatism in some areas of science but when there's one guy pushing a theory (theory initially invented by a sci-fi author) and a lot of doubt based on evidence from others, i tend to not trust that one guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_water_erosion_hypothesis
Anyway, i'm no expert. I'm fascinated just like you.
Right on. But I’m still going to stand by my snarky comment about her saying the pyramids were created with copper tools and a plumb bob lol. To further explain my perspective… Imagine a future society looking back at our time… we are long gone but the Golden Gate Bridge survives. And this new society is convinced that the Golden Gate Bridge was built by slaves with nothing but primitive hand tools as a monument to bridge our kings to the promised land. I mean, WHERE are all the evidence of machines, factories and plans nearby to excavate as evidence?? I know that’s a far fetched analogy but that’s how I kinda see things regarding the way traditional Egyptologist’s defend their methodology. “Well if we can’t dig up the machines, it’s just impossible that they were smart enough for advanced technology.” We didn’t bury and archive the golden gate tools 15 feet away.
If Egyptologists take everything literally from the pharaohs and priests, why don’t we do that with all ancient religions? We don’t take the Bible as absolute historical fact (well some do lol), are we supposed to be taking that literally because it was written down and must be true? That is basically how I see things. Facts get lost through time and when thousands of years go by, you just have to admit you don’t know. IMO it’s a discredit to the past societies to consider them as lowly slaves chiseling monolithic blocks (with copper tools !?) for a kings tomb.It just sounds absurd, especially when there is sound evidence that the timelines could be off. My 2 cents. (Godspeed if you made it through my wall of text)