The Artificial Pyramid Casing Stones: Ancient Geopolymer
Jan 3, 2018 3:23:46 GMT 10
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Post by brillbilly on Jan 3, 2018 3:23:46 GMT 10
The Artificial Pyramid Casing Stones: Ancient Geopolymer High Technology.
A gash in the side of one of the pyramids built by Senefru - the father of Khufu, who built the Great Pyramid - shows a combination of what appears to be irregularly cut quarried limestone blocks surrounded by tight jointed, cast-in-place geopolymer blocks. Image © Michel Barsoum, used with permission.
A ground level block in front of the Great Pyramid of Khufu includes a irregular lip at the bottom that would have been very hard, and somewhat pointless, to carve. This lip indicates that the block was cast in place - the material in the lip having slid out under the temporary wooden mold before hardening. Barsoum analyzed a piece of material from the bottom lip and says he did not find smoking gun evidence. “The only logical conclusion is that after 5000 years, the binding phase has basically been washed away. Solution? Get samples from the core of that block. Easier said than done.” watershedmaterials.com/blog/2015/3/31/geopolymer-concrete-egyptian-pyramids-and-a-new-way-forward-for-sustainable-masonry
Over the past 40 years, material scientists have conducted tests on the Egyptian pyramid stones and the scientific consensus is that the outer casing stones were in fact created from a man-made limestone-concrete mixture, known as a geopolymer. The claim, although underpinned by scientific research in unsurprisingly not accepted by Egyptologists. Watch the video to learn more.
A gash in the side of one of the pyramids built by Senefru - the father of Khufu, who built the Great Pyramid - shows a combination of what appears to be irregularly cut quarried limestone blocks surrounded by tight jointed, cast-in-place geopolymer blocks. Image © Michel Barsoum, used with permission.
A ground level block in front of the Great Pyramid of Khufu includes a irregular lip at the bottom that would have been very hard, and somewhat pointless, to carve. This lip indicates that the block was cast in place - the material in the lip having slid out under the temporary wooden mold before hardening. Barsoum analyzed a piece of material from the bottom lip and says he did not find smoking gun evidence. “The only logical conclusion is that after 5000 years, the binding phase has basically been washed away. Solution? Get samples from the core of that block. Easier said than done.” watershedmaterials.com/blog/2015/3/31/geopolymer-concrete-egyptian-pyramids-and-a-new-way-forward-for-sustainable-masonry
Over the past 40 years, material scientists have conducted tests on the Egyptian pyramid stones and the scientific consensus is that the outer casing stones were in fact created from a man-made limestone-concrete mixture, known as a geopolymer. The claim, although underpinned by scientific research in unsurprisingly not accepted by Egyptologists. Watch the video to learn more.
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