To start a conspiracy theory thread about the pyramids?

Rockman and Kingboy D. 😻 Cultural heroes, for sure.
(“I like ABBA!”)

Health and safety though.
Working at height regulations alone would make the pyramids difficult.
Working time directive would mean it would be prohibitively expensive to staff.
Unions would kick off about the heat and sand.
And the Sphinx is catcist.
Which is racist, but against cats.
No wonder the Egyptians went extinct.

The Brits.
Kilt.
Cigar.
Extreme Noise Terror.
Machine gunning the crowd.
Sublime genius.

No, these chaps were far more justified than that lot.
They drove an icecream van, (though they also had a classic American cop car.)
They called up Tammy Wynette in Tennessee to ask her to stand by the JAMS, such was their great power. Even so, in 1987 they asked What The Fuck was going on, so it’s clear even they had the odd wobble.
So they burnt a million quid, and also scared Jarvis Cocker one evening.
But they never, as is clear from all the known fragmentary annals, ever uttered ‘Ni’. Not even when taunted.

(They remain one of my top bands of all time. I’m a crazed fan, despite being far too old for all that kind of carry on)

😽

Is that the crowd that were defeated by the Knights that say Ni, in the fabled battle of the small shrubbery ?

Yup. Not understanding science and technology appears to be common among conspiracy folk.

Surely something to do with super-piezo electronics, generated by the granite sarcophagi ⚡ I may have got that a bit wrong: it came from some lockdown time-wasting, but it's good as the rest of this nonsense.

It has just gone 3am...

Or maybe we have just given our knowledge over to computing.
Absolutely no reason why the pyramids cannot be entirely made by humans, just because modern humanity can't build a high-speed railway line because of idiocy and corruption.
Egyptians had the mathematical knowledge and the manpower to hand.
See Cologne Cathedral, York Minster, the Duomo in Florence.

Give your husband a day out to the British Museum for his Christmas present. He can visit all the ancient Egyptian galleries & talk to the staff & volunteers there about any questions has. It might also be useful for him to see the other galleries, to see how the ancient Greeks & Romans managed such massive engineering projects.
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries

People in the past were just as intelligent as people now, they just had different technologies and priorities

We must not overlook the Justified Ancients of Mu. We just mustn’t, ok?

There was indeed a terraqueous cataclysm, which hit the eastern Mediterranean in the late Bronze age, destroying the great Minoan civilisation that had flourished across the region for centuries.
Multiple catastrophes (of harvests, earthquake, weather, climate, warfare etc) all struck at once and acting in combination these wiped out the Minoans entirely. Irresistible force.
This power and trade vacuum inevitably had a great effect on Egyptian civilisation, which only narrowly avoided this great regional upheaval.

I think it was wombles

Point of order, Madam Speaker! We should acknowledge the part played by Christianity in Europe after the fall of Rome, by preserving culture, in writing, language, and learning as everything returned to the soil, once the Empire had left.
Irish monks, for example, roamed across the Continent keeping Latin and Greek (and therefore learning) alive, thereby spinning a thread that would lead to the Renaissance.

You wot? Im probably misreading your comment, but history books aren't all useless conjecture.
We've evidence aplenty, from many millennia, with which to build up a picture of this or that event/reign/ civilisation.
We change over time, as readers, and books are revised to accommodate new perspectives, not to mention physical discoveries of course, but to me that makes history books a sort of ongoing symposium, with new speakers and papers coming in all the time, as the original historical matter is revealed in ever clearer focus.

@Aviri I’ve enjoyed your comments 😂

That is why it’s called the Renaissance though. The rebirth of old, lost learning and skills ( in this case, relearning and emulating the realism in ancient wall paintings)

Modern machinery wouldn't struggle at all to build the pyramids.

The pyramids were a huge undertaking, but not any more advanced than the technology that was available at the time. When you have thousands of workers at your disposal you can do amazing things.

A couple of years ago I read a very interesting book about the "how" of building Stonehenge. Not the "why".

The uprights of the giant trilithon weigh about 45 tons. How did they move such huge blocks of stone? How many men? How far could a block be moved in a day? How were the stones dressed and tapered? How were they set upright? Who provided food for the workers?

Very interesting reading.

Like what? Levitation? Morphic resonance?

I believe they were built by ancient Egyptians and slaves. But I do think they had some (not technology but some greater understanding of physics) knowledge that we don’t maybe understand now. Same as Stonehenge. I believe there is some knowledge that’s been “lost” over time.

Agree with this