Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> I'm still trying to figure out how cast concrete
> blocks are simpler or more believable
> than cut stone ones. BTW exactly how did the
> Egyptians waterproof thosse cooling
> galleries? and how did they get massess of water
> from the river daily, bucket
> brigades?



[www.faiyum.com]

"The Western Desert Aquifer

Although the Faiyum is not a spring-fed oasis, all accounts of the Western Desert speculate upon the aquifer, which provided the water essential to human habitation in the other great depressions.

The aquifer is held in the Nubian and other Cretaceous sandstones, which are exposed in the south, but lie between the Palaeozoic and Eocene under the desert to the north. The amount of water is incredible. Sampsell expresses it as the equivalent of 600 years of Nile discharge. The water originates in the wet areas to the south of Egypt, and migrates northwards through the permeable strata.

Popular accounts talk about the aquifer as if it were a single underground river, looping its way around the oases, on its way to the sea. There is no rationale for this pleasant conceit. Said proposes that the water, while widely spread, is held in the series of high rimmed basins revealed by oil exploration. Unfortunately, tests show the water to be of ancient origin, and susceptible to depletion."


Everywhere you look from geology to most of the ancient reports
there is water water everywhere. Herodotus said that it was the
practice of the ancients to carve passages until they hit water
so as not to have to build canals. There are natural caverns and
fissures everywhere on the Giza Plateau. Indeed the descending
passage actually cuts right through a natural cavern. There is a
massive 70' long fissure immediately in FRONT OF THE ENTRANCE to
the Great Pyramid. It is 70' long and 10' wide tapering to a point
that is too narrow to excavate a few dozen feet down.

Is the placement of the pyramid next to this fissure accidental?
Answer the question yourself but when you do keep two things in
mind; many observers including, I believe, both Petrie and Vyse
have said that the placement of the stone around the opening ap-
pears to have been made so as to allow for more structure in this
area. Mamoud said that the entrance, once found, was so finely
balanced that it could be opened with little force. Also keep in
mind that the ancients were well aware that the underlying rock
was required to support a huge weight.

No. It's most unlikely that the avilability of water was much of
a problem. It's not a certainty that it was available under pres-
sure but they had it at, or near ground level.

This isn't to say that they built these with concrete. I don't
know how they made them. But I have an open mind and am always
eager to hear any idea that is supported by actual facts and ev-
idence. Any idea that doesn't create more mysteries than it
solves will get my attention.

There's one pyramid whose basement is flooded and there are calls
to dismantle it to see how it was constructed since it's defective
anyway.






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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.