What Really Happened In The Past?
It is a broad, but fascinating topic for our round table this time. In this hectic time of change, with major new conspiracies regularly being unearthed, we should be reminded of, and appreciate, those who tried to preserve an accurate telling of past events in the face of cover-ups, white-washes, propaganda and blatant ignorance.
Many things in history did not happen as we are told in state education and main stream sources. What example do you have? Which topic do you find most intriguing?
Thanks to everyone who made a suggestion and voted and to u/Gottmituns for the winning suggestion.
"Not one mention of the pyramids in ancient texts"
That is where I realized, beyond a doubt, you were talking out of your ass about things you have never researched.
For textual veracity, one need only look at the long list of scholars since his own time who have referenced and/or commented on Heroditus' texts.
The oldest purported examples of the work were found in the 1800's (goalpost shifting from 1920 much?) but the text was translated, read, critiqued and copied since antiquity. If it were forged, then the forging was done as long ago as when it was written anyway, so to claim it is "fake" is only to really say you think someone other than Heroditus wrote it then.
*One a tangentially related note, try to find sketches of the colloseum, Hagia Sofia, Parthenon, Pantheon etc before the 15th century... people did not do much architectural or landscape art before that, at least that survived anyway.)
I'm willing to entertain the idea, but how do you explain written accounts by Herodotus (450bc-ish)and Diodorus (50bc-ish) whop both wrote descriptions of the pyramids?
Also, there were a lot of other Roman, Greek, Arab, and medieval authors who wrote about them.
So, if we are going with the idea that the British built them in the 1800's there would need to be a very good explanation for previous written accounts.
Well if it’s Herodotus, he is “The Father of History” so pretty much everyone who followed him could fact check whether or not the pyramids existed.
That leaves about 2400 years for someone to figure out the bluff before the British might have built the pyramids.
Also Napoleon, who was at war with England at the time, had captured Egypt in the 1790s, which is where we got the Rosetta Stone from. Napoleon would have no motivation to cover up for a British plan to build pyramids. We have sketches and paintings of the Sphinx and Great pyramid, and architectural data from Napoleons engineers regarding the pyramids.
There is A LOT of holes to plug with the theory the British built the pyramids. So I think it’s an interesting concept, but unless there is something more than theory supporting it, we just have to assume they existed before British occupation.