What was stored in pyramids

Others include his suggestion that being gay is a choice, that Muslims aren't qualified to seek the US presidency, and President Barack Obama's healthcare reform was "the worst thing" since slavery.

However, none of these statements appears to have affected his poll rating. Darnell argues that the pyramid theory is "somewhat surprising and scary", coming from a leading contender for the presidency, but he also sees this as an opportunity.

But we are actually facing some remarkably similar situations to then - a jockeying for power and influence in the world, a rising power in what is now Turkey, a political and military vacuum in what is now coastal Syria and Lebanon," he says. Image source, Getty Images. So where does this granary theory come from?

Carson is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Image source, The Trustees of the British Museum. A painted wooden model of a granary from Egypt in around BC. Ben Carson has become known for his controversial comments.

Related Topics. There are lots of different pyramids, built over thousands of years: There are more than pyramids known in Egypt, and they were built anywhere between and BCE. South of Egypt, in Sudan, there are around of the structures. All the ones studied appear to have served as tombs. Ancient Egyptians actually had granaries: And they've been studied by archaeologists.

The only grain found in pyramids is part of a burial ritual: To be fair, there have been a few odd remains of grain found in pyramids by archaeologists, but this is part of an Egyptian burial ritual known as the Osiris bed , as the Tour Egypt site explains :. They were expected to germinate once the tomb was sealed, and were symbolic of the continuation of life after death. So there you have it. We think the evidence speaks for itself.

This idea seems to be drawn from a speech given by archeologist Lizzy Acker at the University of Cambridge in On his official campaign website, Carson claims that he came up with the idea for a musical based on the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors during a surgical consultation with a patient named Jacob Brandman.

Carson did apparently propose this idea to Mr. Brandman … in , 30 years after Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat premiered. My belief is that the coat was black, white and brown — the first time anyone had ever seen brown. That story has yet to be told.