The Pyramid Question: Riddle of the Ancient Engineers | MHP 12.20.21.
The Micah Hanks Program
Micah Hanks
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🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
They represent one of the greatest architectural wonders of all time... and are among the most enduring mysteries of the ancient world. The pyramids at Giza were an engineering marvel when they were erected thousands of years ago, and even today scholars and laymen alike continue to ask questions about these enigmatic ancient monuments and their construction.
This week on The Micah Hanks Program we explore the mysteries of the Giza pyramids, from the earliest ancient accounts to modern attempts at replicating their construction methods. We examine both the "alternative" speculations about their design and purpose, as well as archaeological views and the efforts of modern engineers toward unraveling the mysteries of the most famous monuments the world has ever known.
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Show Notes
Below are links to stories and other content featured in this episode:
- NEWS: Hubble telescope's bigger, more powerful successor to soar
- Bits of asteroid Ryugu are among 'most primordial' materials ever examined
- Why did ancient Egyptian pharaohs stop building pyramids?
- THE PYRAMIDS: Historical Accounts of the Great Pyramid
- Herodotus’s account of how the pyramids were built
- The Herodotus Machine
- A modern story of how the pyramids were built
- The simple way Egyptians moved massive pyramid stones without modern technology
- Did slippery sand help Egyptians build the pyramids?
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| 0:00.0 | News, science, the unexplained space in the cosmos, exploring our past, our future, and |
| 0:08.6 | the mysteries of our universe, taking a critical look at reality and a journey to the edges |
| 0:14.4 | of human understanding. |
| 0:16.2 | The future is now, this is Micahanks. |
| 0:23.0 | From the high mountains of Appalachia and a bunker below ground, welcome when it all |
| 0:26.9 | it is the Micahanks program, glad once again to be getting behind the microphone, getting |
| 0:31.5 | into gear and going in pursuit of the enigmatic, like we do every week, and indeed we have |
| 0:37.7 | a lot on tap for this go around. |
| 0:41.6 | Big news about Hubble telescopes, bigger, more powerful successor, also bits of an asteroid |
| 0:48.7 | being brought back to Earth, and then along the science front we'll be turning our attention |
| 0:55.4 | back to an ancient mystery. |
| 0:57.1 | That's right, not only why did the pyramids suddenly appear, how were they built, why were |
| 1:04.5 | they built, but why of course did Pharaoh's stop building them? |
| 1:09.6 | These are least among the questions on my mind this week however, as we go in pursuit |
| 1:14.9 | of answers to some of the deeper questions about Earth's most enigmatic ancient monuments, |
| 1:23.0 | arguably the most famous constructions of all time. |
| 1:28.4 | And indeed there is a reason why the pyramids have captivated us the way that they have |
| 1:32.4 | and for so long, we're going to be digging into all of that. |
| 1:36.8 | This week taking one of our traditional deep dives right here around the holidays too. |
| 1:42.6 | I periodically revisit the subject of ancient Egypt and its many mysteries, you can tell |
| 1:48.2 | that that's near and dear to my heart, but of course also the download numbers show how |
| 1:51.9 | much you guys enjoy that topic as well. |
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