In the movie Chariots of the Gods, based on the novel by Erich von Däniken, it brings up multiple pseudoarchaeological claims. A pseudoarchaeology claim “-involves the misinterpretation and misrepresentation of archaeological data to concoct a past that some feel is more satisfying” (Fader). One of the most interesting claims I heard about was the idea that the Egyptians could not have built the pyramids in Giza by themselves with the technology available at the time. Von Däniken creates this argument around mathematical coincidences and the claim that Egyptians did not have the proper tools or time to build the pyramids. This claim however is false, it is very well possible for the Egyptians to have built the pyramids and for the mathematical
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He first attempts to prove that the Egyptians did not have the technological advancements tools required to achieve the pyramids. Von Däniken suggests that since there were no cranes or trucks, it would have been close to impossible to transport the blocks from the quarry to the build site. He also states that it would take twenty hundred workers would take over six hundred and sixty four years to complete the pyramids. Von Däniken argues that without cranes the workers would have no way to lift the two ton bricks up four hundred feet. The other grouping of arguments are mathematical formations that show up in the dimensions of the pyramids. Erich von Däniken claims that it could not have been coincidental for the Egyptians to create a pyramid that when its height is multiplied by one billion it equals almost exactly the distances from the earth to the sun, and that the base multiplied by two times the height is almost equal to the numbers of pi when it was not discovered until four thousand years after the pyramids were …show more content…
The Egyptian people created the pyramids in Giza by themselves, and all of the achievement and glory should go to them. It is detrimental to our history of earth if we continue to allow the pseudoarchaeological claims to control the ideals of
He first attempts to prove that the Egyptians did not have the technological advancements tools required to achieve the pyramids. Von Däniken suggests that since there were no cranes or trucks, it would have been close to impossible to transport the blocks from the quarry to the build site. He also states that it would take twenty hundred workers would take over six hundred and sixty four years to complete the pyramids. Von Däniken argues that without cranes the workers would have no way to lift the two ton bricks up four hundred feet. The other grouping of arguments are mathematical formations that show up in the dimensions of the pyramids. Erich von Däniken claims that it could not have been coincidental for the Egyptians to create a pyramid that when its height is multiplied by one billion it equals almost exactly the distances from the earth to the sun, and that the base multiplied by two times the height is almost equal to the numbers of pi when it was not discovered until four thousand years after the pyramids were …show more content…
The Egyptian people created the pyramids in Giza by themselves, and all of the achievement and glory should go to them. It is detrimental to our history of earth if we continue to allow the pseudoarchaeological claims to control the ideals of