u/Lloydwrites

This was a short story anthology. I was told by family member that it was my older brother's 6th grade textbook. Hardback, I want to say a primarily blue cove. The only story I remember was "The Erne from the Coast" by T.O. Beachcroft. I don't remember seeing discussion questions with each story, so maybe it had a companion workbook or something. Or wasn't a textbook.

A book of facts I read in the mid-70s. It might have been a spinoff of Guinness Book of Records. I had two in the series, each with a theme. The one theme I remember was young people and had achievements like youngest person to get a pilot's license or (morbidly) die of alcoholism (I think he was 10 or 11 and British).

To the best of my memory from 50 years ago, the trim size was small (like mass market paperback size) and the page count would have been relatively brief; it was a thin spine.

I remember almost nothing about graphics or visuals, but I might recognize a cover or interior illo. Like most books of the era, the interior was all b&w.

I was a child reading this, but I read above my age.

We have the diary of an inspector (quarry supervisor) who recorded where he sent cut blocks. We found it at the quarry from where his crew of about 40 workers moved the blocks to their destination. We can date this document almost exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Merer#:~:text=The%20text%2C%20written%20with%20cursive,quarries%20to%20Giza%20by%20boat.

The Egyptians have a long history of developing technologies that predate the construction of the Great Pyramids. The Great Pyramids didn't spring up out of the dust. They're the natural progression of all the pyramids and other structures that came before them. Suggesting otherwise is like acknowledging that Egyptians invented the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 but aliens came down out of the sky and gave them 7, then disappeared without a trace.

We know a considerable amount about the tools and techniques they used, and this amount increases regularly with new discoveries. While we don't know every single thing about the construction of the pyramids, I will point out that the answer to every question ever solved has been "not magic." It wasn't giants. It wasn't aliens. It wasn't time-travelers. All the evidence shows intelligent human designers who united a people with a common goal and gave them the tools to make it happen.

I am out of patience with the conspiracy theories. I'm not stopping with just removing posts. I am handing out bans without discussion. If you think you have a new idea about how the pyramids were built, no, you don't.