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(first image on google). This image is a "stretch" because there are rockets coming out of the bottom of the pyramid which is a very odd conspiracy. One assumptions of this photo is that the pyramids were built by aliens and are spaceships that were able to land their with rockets on them.

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This image portrays a lot. I chose this image because of the "floating" upside down pyramid above each pyramid. A lot of assumptions about conspiracy theories can be made regarding this photo. For instance, are those upside down pyramids real or just photo shopped in their for the creators publicity?

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This image has UFO's floating above the pyramids acting as a device to move the pyramids into place or help provide to the Egyptian's during the building process. One assumption is that once again, a common theme in my padlet wall is that aliens helped immensely for the building of the pyramids.

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This video is about 10 facts that exist with the egyptian pyramids. One of the reasons for belief within this video is the unexplained. There are so many theories about the pyramids and how they were built that anything could be true. A red flag within this video is Anicent wisdom. I think this because we have so much better technology and creations than they did.

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10 Things You Don't Know About The Pyramids Of Egypt

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This video talks about why the pyramids were built and how they are power plants.. One of the reason for beliefs is Ideology. I think this because this may be true or may not be true but they're portraying their thoughts as if it is. One red flag I noticed is appeal to authority. I believe this because they throw the name scientists in the title making some people believe it right off the bat.

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True Pyramids Purpose Has Been Finally Discovered

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This website talks about the entire lifespan of the pyramids from the start to present day. One of the reasons for belief is agenticity. I think this is one of them because the pharaoh's are instantly linked to them. One of the red flags is ancient wisdom because back then they were ahead of technology but now we are way ahead and still have no idea how they were created.

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Built during a time when Egypt was one of the richest and most powerful civilizations in the world, the pyramids-especially the Great Pyramids of Giza-are some of the most magnificent man-made structures in history. Their massive scale reflects the unique role that the pharaoh, or king, played in ancient Egyptian society. Though pyramids were built from the beginning of the Old Kingdom to the close of the Ptolemaic period in the fourth century A.D., the peak of pyramid building began with the late third dynasty and continued until roughly the sixth (c. 2325 B.C.). More than 4,000 years later, the Egyptian pyramids still retain much of their majesty, providing a glimpse into the country's rich and glorious past.

The Pharaoh in Egyptian Society

During the third and fourth dynasties of the Old Kingdom, Egypt enjoyed tremendous economic prosperity and stability. Kings held a unique position in Egyptian society. Somewhere in between human and divine, they were believed to have been chosen by the gods themselves to serve as their mediators on earth. Because of this, it was in everyone's interest to keep the king's majesty intact even after his death, when he was believed to become Osiris, god of the dead. The new pharaoh, in turn, became Horus, the falcon-god who served as protector of the sun god, Ra.

Did you know? The pyramid's smooth, angled sides symbolized the rays of the sun and were designed to help the king's soul ascend to heaven and join the gods, particularly the sun god Ra.

Ancient Egyptians believed that when the king died, part of his spirit (known as "ka") remained with his body. To properly care for his spirit, the corpse was mummified, and everything the king would need in the afterlife was buried with him, including gold vessels, food, furniture and other offerings. The pyramids became the focus of a cult of the dead king that was supposed to continue well after his death. Their riches would provide not only for him, but also for the relatives, officials and priests who were buried near him.

The Early Pyramids

From the beginning of the Dynastic Era (2950 B.C.), royal tombs were carved into rock and covered with flat-roofed rectangular structures known as "mastabas," which were precursors to the pyramids. The oldest known pyramid in Egypt was built around 2630 B.C. at Saqqara, for the third dynasty's King Djoser. Known as the Step Pyramid, it began as a traditional mastaba but grew into something much more ambitious. As the story goes, the pyramid's architect was Imhotep, a priest and healer who some 1,400 years later would be deified as the patron saint of scribes and physicians. Over the course of Djoser's nearly 20-year reign, pyramid builders assembled six stepped layers of stone (as opposed to mud-brick, like most earlier tombs) that eventually reached a height of 204 feet (62 meters); it was the tallest building of its time. The Step Pyramid was surrounded by a complex of courtyards, temples and shrines where Djoser could enjoy his afterlife.

After Djoser, the stepped pyramid became the norm for royal burials, although none of those planned by his dynastic successors were completed (probably due to their relatively short reigns). The earliest tomb constructed as a "true" (smooth-sided, not stepped) pyramid was the Red Pyramid at Dahshur, one of three burial structures built for the first king of the fourth dynasty, Sneferu (2613-2589 B.C.) It was named for the color of the limestone blocks used to construct the pyramid's core.

The Great Pyramids of Giza

No pyramids are more celebrated than the Great Pyramids of Giza, located on a plateau on the west bank of the Nile River, on the outskirts of modern-day Cairo. The oldest and largest of the three pyramids at Giza, known as the Great Pyramid, is the only surviving structure out of the famed Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was built for Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops, in Greek), Sneferu's successor and the second of the eight kings of the fourth dynasty. Though Khufu reigned for 23 years (2589-2566 B.C.), relatively little is known of his reign beyond the grandeur of his pyramid. The sides of the pyramid's base average 755.75 feet (230 meters), and its original height was 481.4 feet (147 meters), making it the largest pyramid in the world. Three small pyramids built for Khufu's queens are lined up next to the Great Pyramid, and a tomb was found nearby containing the empty sarcophagus of his mother, Queen Hetepheres. Like other pyramids, Khufu's is surrounded by rows of mastabas, where relatives or officials of the king were buried to accompany and support him in the afterlife.

The middle pyramid at Giza was built for Khufu's son Pharaoh Khafre (2558-2532 B.C). The Pyramid of Khafre is the second tallest pyramid at Giza and contains Pharaoh Khafre's tomb. A unique feature built inside Khafre's pyramid complex was the Great Sphinx, a guardian statue carved in limestone with the head of a man and the body of a lion. It was the largest statue in the ancient world, measuring 240 feet long and 66 feet high. In the 18th dynasty (c. 1500 B.C.) the Great Sphinx would come to be worshiped itself, as the image of a local form of the god Horus. The southernmost pyramid at Giza was built for Khafre's son Menkaure (2532-2503 B.C.). It is the shortest of the three pyramids (218 feet) and is a precursor of the smaller pyramids that would be constructed during the fifth and sixth dynasties.

Who Built The Pyramids?

Though some popular versions of history held that the pyramids were built by slaves or foreigners forced into labor, skeletons excavated from the area show that the workers were probably native Egyptian agricultural laborers who worked on the pyramids during the time of year when the Nile River flooded much of the land nearby. Approximately 2.3 million blocks of stone (averaging about 2.5 tons each) had to be cut, transported and assembled to build Khufu's Great Pyramid. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote that it took 20 years to build and required the labor of 100,000 men, but later archaeological evidence suggests that the workforce might actually have been around 20,000.

The End of the Pyramid Era

Pyramids continued to be built throughout the fifth and sixth dynasties, but the general quality and scale of their construction declined over this period, along with the power and wealth of the kings themselves. In the later Old Kingdom pyramids, beginning with that of King Unas (2375-2345 B.C), pyramid builders began to inscribe written accounts of events in the king's reign on the walls of the burial chamber and the rest of the pyramid's interior. Known as pyramid texts, these are the earliest significant religious compositions known from ancient Egypt.

The last of the great pyramid builders was Pepy II (2278-2184 B.C.), the second king of the sixth dynasty, who came to power as a young boy and ruled for 94 years. By the time of his rule, Old Kingdom prosperity was dwindling, and the pharaoh had lost some of his quasi-divine status as the power of non-royal administrative officials grew. Pepy II's pyramid, built at Saqqara and completed some 30 years into his reign, was much shorter (172 feet) than others of the Old Kingdom. With Pepy's death, the kingdom and strong central government virtually collapsed, and Egypt entered a turbulent phase known as the First Intermediate Period. Later kings, of the 12th dynasty, would return to pyramid building during the so-called Middle Kingdom phase, but it was never on the same scale as the Great Pyramids.

The Pyramids Today

Tomb robbers and other vandals in both ancient and modern times removed most of the bodies and funeral goods from Egypt's pyramids and plundered their exteriors as well. Stripped of most of their smooth white limestone coverings, the Great Pyramids no longer reach their original heights; Khufu's, for example, measures only 451 feet high. Nonetheless, millions of people continue to visit the pyramids each year, drawn by their towering grandeur and the enduring allure of Egypt's rich and glorious past.

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Egyptian Pyramids - Facts, Use & Construction

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Built during a time when Egypt was one of the richest and most powerful civilizations in the world, the pyramids-especially the Great Pyramids of Giza-are some of the most magnificent man-made structures in history.

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This website talks about the building of the pyramids and how they are used. One of the reasons for belief in this article is perception/observation. I think this because all of these theories are passed down by the previous generation and their memory of these pyramids could be completely false. One of the red flags are confirmation bias because people remember the things they want to remember.

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School sessions and resources for ages 7–11 (KS2).

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This video talks about the theories of how the pyramids were built back in the day. One of the reasons for belief in this video is Simplicity. I think this because this answer is extremely hard to understand and accept. One of the red flags within this video is Proof by verbosity. I believe this because they have so much "evidence" to explain this thought but it may not be true evidence.

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Building the Pyramids of Egypt ...a detailed step by step guide.

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This website talks about how aliens were the ones that actually built the pyramids. One of the reasons for belief is agenticity. This article links aliens to the pyramids and how they traveled from the future to complete the pyramids. One of the red flags is red herring. I think this because whether they talk about the time traveling aspect or aliens they revert back to something else.

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Researchers believe extraterrestrials left vital clues in the design of the pyramids which prove it could not have been our ancestors who built the extraordinary feats of engineering.

And the experts claim the truth lies behind one thing - the co-ordinates.

The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second and the geographic co-ordinates for the Great Pyramid are 29.9792458°N, Dailystar.co.uk reports.

However, humans could not measure the speed of light with this precision until 1950, thousands of years after the pyramids went up.

Travelling at the speed of light is theorised as being the only way to time travel, and believers claim the "advanced aliens" could have returned to Earth from the future to build the monuments.

YouTube researcher Manu Seyfzadeh said: "Is it possible that those who placed the great pyramid on the Giza plateau had an inkling of the speed of light to a degree of accuracy not possible without highly technical equipment?"

One of his followers said: "The speed of light in the metric system appears in the design and location of the Great Pyramid, when the decimal point is slid along the value.

"Aliens chose this location for a reason. This striking similarity is difficult to accept as a coincidence.

"There can be no doubt that it is a mathematically intelligent design associated with the stellar belief of its builders."

Believers of the Ancient Aliens theory claim extraterrestrials also came to help build Stonehenge, in Wiltshire, in the UK, and other ancient monuments connected with the cosmos.

They have dubbed the hypothetical advanced visitors as "ancient astronauts".

The theory suggests they were mistaken for Gods by our ancestors who depicted images of them in ancient artwork, which are now said to show pictures of aliens and flying saucers.

They supposedly visited Earth thousands of years ago, studied different tribes and were mistaken for Gods.

One conspiracy website outerworlds.com dedicates a whole section to the argument that "aliens built the pyramids."

The theory says because two imaginary diagonal lines extend from the pyramids on either side of the Nile River delta, the early Egyptians could not have known this when building them, to be so accurate with their positioning.

With their precise measurements and alignments with celestial bodies and magnetic north, it has long been argued that our ancestors around 4,600 years ago would have been unable to physically build the ancient Pyramids of Giza.

The theory says: "The ones which were supposedly built to house the remains of dead pharaohs?

"The ones you thought were built by the Egyptians? Well, you are wrong.

"They were built by ALIENS!

"Here is what really happened: A couple of aliens, flying high enough over the Earth to be able to see where the Nile Delta's origin is, easily saw what orientation the pyramid would need to be in order to have its diagonals lie on those two lines."

Outerworld.com also says the great pyramid lines up almost exactly with the magnetic North Pole.

It says: "How could the Egyptians possibly have built their pyramid facing the exact magnetic North Pole without even having a compass?

"Those aliens, abundant in their knowledge and drowning in technology, came along and using their compasses, they landed on Earth and found the actual magnetic North and South Poles. Then they built the pyramids."

However, it is a huge leap to go from a mystery of how they were built to saying it was aliens.

On the flip side, ancientaliensdebunked.com is as equally passionate about the evidence that humans could have built the pyramids when history tells us they were constructed.

In an article about the pyramids, the website says the so-called unfinished obelisk is 1,000 tones and made of granite, but was abandoned midway through because a crack developed.

It said: "This stone, because it is unfinished, gives us direct insight into how they cut and shaped granite, as well as other stones.

"After the stones had been roughly shaped using pounding stones, they would begin to polish them with grinders.

"There have been many types of stone grinders, or polishers, found in ancient Egypt.

"About 85 per cent of the stone used in the construction of the pyramids was relatively soft sandstone which was quarried right on site."

The site says there is evidence that wooden sleds with ropes made from papyrus were used to move stones.

It added: "I at least hope that by now most of us can see that these construction techniques are well within the capability of mankind to conceive and achieve without the intervention of aliens."

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TIME TRAVEL SHOCK: Speed of light is 'final proof aliens built pyramids' claims researcher

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ANCIENT pyramids of Giza could have been built by advanced alien visitors, according to shock new claims from a researcher. Conspiracy theorists have claimed for decades that construction of the ancient wonders were far beyond the means of the early Egyptians - so they must have had outside help.