We absolutely know they were tombs. We can read Ancient Egyptian you know. There are texts on the walls dealing with how the person entombed there will deal with being judged in the afterlife. The idea that that the pyramids were mysterious in purpose only made sense prior to the mid 19th century before we could read the hieroglyphs.
There are, in fact, no such inscriptions in any of the Giza pyramids, and no remnant of funerary apparatus was found in any of them, never mind a mummy. (Other looted Egyptian crypts were found full of trash; looters don't clean up after themselves.) The only writing found inside was not funerary.
There are funerary temples lousy with inscriptions outside, but anybody can build those anytime. Crypts elsewhere are scribbled throughout.
We still know very little about the pyramids, so cannot contradict speculation. The official story / timeline is just one such.
jhbadger|3 years ago
moloch-hai|3 years ago
There are funerary temples lousy with inscriptions outside, but anybody can build those anytime. Crypts elsewhere are scribbled throughout.
We still know very little about the pyramids, so cannot contradict speculation. The official story / timeline is just one such.