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May 12, 2010 ? Today’s large cranes are almost the length of a football field. The base of Egypt’s Great Pyramid could accommodate ten such cranes.
What we find in Egypt’s Great Pyramid defies all expectations. Beams weighing 70 tons are situated 120-feet above ground level. Ancient Egypt’s best ramps would collapse under much smaller weights. Another simple way to raise blocks is to use wooden levers. But wooden levers are too weak to pry up 70-ton beams. Stacked wooden boards are too unstable to support blocks being levered up into the Great Pyramid.
The 70-ton beams measure an impressive 27 feet long, and comprise the ceiling of the Great Pyramid’s King’s Chamber. The walls of this mysterious granite room are made of blocks weighing up to 50 tons each. They fit in ways no crane is capable of achieving. A close inspection of the walls and floor shows that the blocks fit together with hairline joints, some barely detectable to the naked eye. All of the protuberances (small bumps) in the blocks fit exactly with matching anti-protuberances in blocks they touch on all sides. It takes a different kind of technology than brute force to perform such sensitive and careful work.
The work is all the more stunning because it takes 25 hours of labor to cut one inch into Aswan granite with a copper bow drill and sand. Sand quickly becomes dull against the granite, and must be constantly renewed to furnish sharp cutting points. No direct evidence shows any tooling method more advanced for ancient Egypt. In fact, even the simple bow drill is unknown for the Pyramid Age, when all of Egypt’s great pyramids arose.
The special technology required to perform the stunning architectural features of Egypt’s Great Pyramid is far more intriguing than conventional methods.
Scribal Arts Aannounces…
The Great Pyramid Secret: Egypt’s Amazing Lost Mystery Science Returns
By M. Morris, with MIT, Drexel University, University of Kansas and other impressive contributions
394 pages, softcover
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Reviews:
Midwest Book Review, April 2010 (Small Press Bookwatch, Volume 9, — Number 4).POSTED A 5-STAR REVIEW AT AMAZON.COM.
“Methodical and organized, Morris presents her ideas to the academic community as well as to casual readers interested in pursuing Egyptian archaeological science for entertainment alone. She does not gloss over any aspect of her hypothesis that might be difficult to back with facts; instead, she supports her statements with even greater evidence. She does not come across as a scientist looking for shock value recognition. She believes the pyramids were built using a simple, but sophisticated, Late Stone Age technology. Then essential natural resources eventually ran out, and the process went into decline.”
— ForeWord Clarion Review, March 2010
For more reviews, visit www.margaretmorrisbooks.com
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