Although many cultures around the world from the Assyrian to the Mesoamerican employed the obelisk form, only ancient Egypt worked in monolithic stone, almost always red granite. In time they would reach heights of over 100 feet (30 metres). The earliest obelisks no longer exist and are only known through later inscriptions but appear to have been only about ten feet (3 metres) tall. The Egyptians called them tekhenu which means 'to pierce' as in 'to pierce the sky'. The name 'obelisk' is Greek for 'spit', as in a long pointed piece of wood generally used for cooking, because the Greek historian Herodotus was the first to write about them and so named them. It is thought that the earliest obelisks served as a kind of training for working in stone on monumental projects which was a necessary step toward pyramid building. 2613 BCE) following their work in mud brick mastaba tombs and prior to the construction of the Step Pyramid of Djoser (c. The ancient Egyptians created the form at some point in the Early Dynastic Period (c. In brief, the secular date for the Great Pyramid is incorrect, and all the pyramids and ziggurats across the world today are post-Flood construction.An obelisk is a stone rectangular pillar with a tapered top forming a pyramidion, set on a base, erected to commemorate an individual or event and honor the gods. As an analogy, if we took all the past state governors of the United States and stacked their terms sequentially, the nation would appear to be much, much older than it is! The problem should be obvious. So the dates for the pharaohs are grossly inflated. Sometimes fathers and sons seem to have reigned together for a long time, too. The problem, it appears, is that some of these pharaohs were reigning at the same time in different Egyptian kingdoms-the Upper Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, or Lower Kingdom.

So, why the older date for the Great Pyramid in secular literature? Many of the accepted dates for events in ancient Egypt came from an ancient list of pharaohs and the lengths of their reigns recorded by the historian Manetho, who lived in Egypt about 200 BC.Īlthough there is much more to this, Manetho assumed the pharaohs’ reigns had been consecutive and so tallied them up sequentially to arrive at a very long Egyptian chronology.

With all this evidence, the Great Pyramid is clearly post-Flood. So Mizraim’s descendants could not have built the Great Pyramid of Egypt (Mizraim) until after the Flood, and for that matter, after the events at the Tower of Babel that caused Mizraim’s family to move to the region of the Nile River. Mizraim was Noah’s grandson, born to Ham after the Flood. Third, the Hebrew word translated “Egypt” is Mizraim. Clearly, the Flood had to predate a pyramid built on top of the Flood layers. Second, the pyramid is built on the fossil-bearing rock layers from the Flood of Noah’s day.

(By the way, that means that the location of the Garden of Eden is also lost.)

Nothing manmade could survive such a catastrophe. Thousands of feet of mud and sand were dumped on every continent, burying and fossilizing creatures and plants. The surface of every continent was destroyed and new mountains formed. Researchers point out that the entire surface of the earth was radically changed. Were the pyramids built before the Flood? Did the pyramids survive the Flood? Consider three points:įirst, the Great Pyramid of Giza lacks significant water damage. 1 If this date is correct, then the Great Pyramid existed before the Flood of Noah’s day, which occurred around 2350 BC and destroyed everything on earth ( 2 Peter 3:5–6)! Obviously, something is askew. One of the main reasons for this question is that secular literature commonly dates the Great Pyramid around 2550 BC. If this date is correct, then the Great Pyramid existed before the Flood of Noah’s day. I’m surprised how often I am asked about the age of the ziggurats and pyramids, in particular the Great Pyramid of Giza, located in modern-day Egypt.

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