Regarding the Giza Pyramid complex the actual archaeological record shows that there was a nearby location that housed the skilled human workers who built the pyramids. According to Lehner the stone used to construct the pyramids come from Aswan, and was transported via the Nile (Lehner 1997). Lehner also suggests that the project involved between 14,500 and 40,000 workers, and that the projects duration was between 10 and 15 years to completion. It is believed that the project ended around 2560 BC, based on a mark in an interior chamber from the 4th Egyptian Dynasty. However, there is no archaeological artifacts yet found on the site regarding what tools were used to cut, shape, and transport the stone used. But, the stone blocks do show evidence of being hand chiseled.
Additionally there is significant archaeological evidence for prehistory Egypt which has ties to the dynasties that emerged. The region of modern day Egypt has been occupied almost since the full evolution of homo sapiens. Some of the earliest evidence for more structured settlements begins in the Neolithic Period around 6000 BCE. These settlements were largely centered around the Nile in oases, as well as in the delta. The next main period is the Naqada which ranges from 4400 to 3000 BCE. It is out of this period, in the later half, that we begin to see more classical Egyptian burial practices. This being subterranean structures modeled after the home. It is after the Naqada period that we transition into Dynastic Egypt. With such evident prehistory whose material culture transitions fluidly into its historic period. Trying to find a period with which to interject either an Atlantean or extraterrestrial influence is hard to conceive.
If the Egyptian pyramids were indeed constructed by Atlanteans than we would need an archaeological comparative index so that we could see what Atlantean artifacts looked like. And try to create a timeline assemblage to see when things diffuse if they fully diffuse. There should be archaeological evidence for how Atlanteans arrived in Egypt. As well as evidence for how they might have reached the Maya in Central America in order. According to popular theory regarding tool sophistication of the Atlanteans their tools would most likely would not have degraded as much so there should be evidence for the tools that they used. Additionally if both the Mayans and Egyptians diffused from Atlantis. Their languages should be more structurally and visually similar. As well as their material culture.
I absolutely agree with your points. If the Atlanteans were indeed that advanced, why would their knowledge of their language, technology, and their own cultural degrade so much and so quickly? Especially when literally every other known culture has left behind some sort of consistent archaeological record of itself.
I also very much appreciated your detailed timeline of Egyptian history. A lot of the claims that suppose that Atlanteans or other lost civilizations made the periods also suppose that the time that archaeologists assert the pyramids were built is incorrect, and as this timeline shows, the cultural history of Egypt very clearly shows this isn’t true. Why would the Egyptians just ignore the pyramids for thousands of years if they were there the whole time?
Aside from that, you do a good job outlining the evidence for human creation of the pyramids, from chisel marks on the bricks, to the mark on the interior chamber that effectively dates some pyramids. I agreed in my blog post that you would expect abnormal cultural similarities between the Maya and the Egyptians if they came from the same root cultures, which, beyond both making pyramid-shaped structures, you really don’t see.
I would add that the underlying assumptions both these claims make is an insult to human ingenuity and originality and underlies the implicit racism of the pseudoarchaeological community. One need not step more than a foot outside of the Pyramids to see that the Egyptians had ample technology and ingenuity to construct the pyramids – it is evident in their structures, the remnants of the knowledge that remain, and the interactions they had with other civilizations in the area.