New Evidence on Egypt's Pyramids Construction
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Marine fossils in the limestone blocks that make the Pyramids and other famous monuments indicate that ancient Egyptians carved those blocks and transported them to the building sites, according to a new study.
The researchers analyzed the mineralogy, as well as the chemical makeup and structure, of small material samples chiseled from the Sphinx Temple, the Osirion Shaft, the Valley Temple, Cheops, Khefren, Osirion at Abydos, the Temple of Seti I at Abydos and Qasr el-Sagha at Fayum.
“The observed random emplacement and strictly homogenous distribution of the fossil shells within the whole rock is in harmony with their initial in situ setting in a fluidal sea bottom environment,” wrote Ioannis Liritzis and his colleagues from the University of the Aegean and the University of Athens.
Liritzis and his team argue that since the fossils are largely undamaged and are distributed in a random manner within the stone, in accordance with their typical distribution at sea floors, the large building stones used to construct the monuments must have been carved out of natural stone instead of cast in molds.
Joseph Davidovits, professor and director of France’s Geopolymer Institute, formulated the theory that natural limestone was cast like concrete to build the pyramids of Egypt.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/25/pyramids-fossils-egypt.html
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