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"Scientists Have an Answer to How the Pyramids Could Have Been Built" would probably be a better title.
by kevincennis 12y ago
"Scientists Have an Answer to How the Pyramids Could Have Been Built" would probably be a better title.
- benbreen 12y agoI'd have to agree, it's a slightly misleading title. This part was the most interesting to me: "Notably, few of the many studies were performed by interdisciplinary teams. While both physical scientists and archaeologists have tackled the problem, the divergent sets of skills and interests may have delayed a solution to the mystery." There needs to be a lot more collaboration between scientists and archeologists/historians on questions like this. Experimental archeology is an interesting subset of this, but my impression is that it's been fairly moribund since the 70s and 80s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_archaeology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_archaeology
- dang 12y agoOk, we'll use that here.
- belovedeagle 12y agoTHANK YOU. I'm tired of all this scientistic nonsense showing up on HN: "Stupid Egyptologists couldn't get it right for hundreds of years; scientists forced to step in and solve the mystery with absolute certainty!" was basically how the headline read before.
- tantalor 12y agoDo not confuse "an answer" with "the correct answer".