[SunkenCiv]

Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, minced no words in assailing the concrete idea. "It's highly stupid," he said via a spokesman. "The pyramids are made from solid blocks of quarried limestone. To suggest otherwise is idiotic and insulting."

Oh, and while he's on the topic, it's highly stupid, and idiotic and insulting to suggest that he's wrong about A) the total number of blocks used to build the Great Pyramid, or B) the average weight of those blocks. So don't even think about bringing up the usual estimate (over 2 million) or the recent-years scientific estimate (5 million). ;')

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1809556/posts?page=48#48

Egypt’s Pyramids Packed With Seashells (Not Concrete)
Discovery Channel | 5-1-2008 | Jennifer Viegas
Posted on 05/01/2008 2:02:14 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2009904/posts

[SunkenCiv]

This photo shows a sample of the casing from the ascending passage of Kheops great pyramid, given by the French egyptologist Jean-Philippe Lauer in 1982 to J. Davidovits. Now, the cross section is characterised by the presence of organic fibers and air bubbles that do not exist in normal situation, especially in a 60 million years old limestone from the eocene era

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[mkjessup]

C'mon now, we all know that it was due to aliens from another galaxy that the culture of Egypt developed as it did, and aliens were the ones who built the pyramids:

[Captain Beyond]

bump

[Frankss]

No aliens, no anti gravity, no magic. Just good masons

[Does so]

Is this the same dude who postulated this 20 years ago???

[Sindarian]

TO anyone who is thinking that this theory has any validity, I posit one question.

To get concrete, you must burn limestone. Where did the the constructors of the Great Pyramid get the heat to burn the hundreds of thousands of tons of limestone to make the concrete?

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

I’ve been saying concrete for decades. It makes sense, being a a result of the necessary annual dredging of the river. Over time you could build up huge structures as a part of normal life. Every spring, the flood brings the raw materials to your doorstep.

The idea of exhausting a kingdom rounding up slaves, cutting stone with soft copper tools, moving them with non existent trees etc, over hundreds of years, is absurd.

[RachelFaith]

Occam’s razor prevails...

They are poured cement.

Case closed.