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To: Windflier
The tools used to cut stone were themselves made of stone, and they wore out, replaced in turn, over and over, until no more work was being done.

Actually, there is writing inside the Great Pyramid, in one of the relieving chambers, graffiti, "how mighty is the Great White Crown of Khufu" (work gang). Also, there was a small bit of the surviving plaster relief when Egyptologists first recorded the interior, but it has since flaked away -- it referred to such-and-such year of the cattle drive for Khufu's reign. That's two inscriptions inside the pyramid. Never read about those? That's not surprising at all. But you have no more excuse to be ignorant of them.

You're definitely not proving anything, other than your own devotion to baseless superstitions.

45 posted on 06/10/2019 3:57:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
The tools used to cut stone were themselves made of stone, and they wore out, replaced in turn, over and over, until no more work was being done.

You need a stone harder than granite to work it. Diamond is one of the few stones of sufficient hardness to work granite. There are no diamond tools in the Cairo Museum, are there?

And please don't make me laugh with that lame tale about the cartouche in the relieving chamber. And plaster flaking off the walls? Some would be left, if there ever was any, and there isn't.

Now who believes in superstition?

47 posted on 06/10/2019 9:22:33 PM PDT by Windflier (Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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