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Originally Posted by htismaqe
You've obviously never been to central Europe. It's littered with castles of lesser lords that couldn't afford them. Where there's a will, there's a way.
Read up on the Sabeans (Sheba). They built structures unbelievable at the time including massive dams.
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I have, and I've visited castles. They most often COULD afford to build them, they and their progeny just couldn't afford to maintain them. I'm not saying man was uncapable of such construction, what I AM saying is, it wasn't done in the manner and time frames we were told. Popular Eqyptology claims the Khufu pyramid was completed in about a decade, later stretched to 20 years...pretty amazing considering it took 15 years to complete a tunnel in Boston.
My point: the ancient 7 wonders were very well detailed by multiple eyewitness going back to Alexander. Only one remains, which was lumped in with 6 missing, which givens SOME creedence to the testimony. These constructions would still be wonders of the modern world, but with a few exceptions, man's engineering feats started over, and we lived an agrarian existence for centuries. I believe it likely that the pyramids were built by advanced societies with technology we still don't know about, and that Atlantis was probably based on truth, although maybe exaggerated or misunderstood like much of the ancient "wisdom". A catastrophic meteor like Chicxulub, massive tectonic movement, or natural, long-lived climate cycles wiped out most of civilzations and we had to start over again. I just don't believe the Egyptians of 2,400 BC? came from nothing and built something like the pyramids.