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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Concrete in the Great Pyramids

Did the Great Pyramids' builders use concrete? 
This is the question we can find in the article by Colin Nickerson on New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/africa/23iht-pyramid.1.12259608.html
"It is a theory that gives indigestion to mainstream archaeologists. Namely, that some of the immense blocks of the Great Pyramids of Egypt might have been cast from synthetic material - the world's first concrete - not just carved whole from quarries and lugged into place by armies of toilers. Such an innovation would have saved millions of man-hours of grunting and heaving in construction of the enigmatic edifices on the Giza Plateau."
See also: 
Revisiting the construction of pyramids