Clive Wrote:
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> Greg:
>
> Have you actually visited Giza and seen these
> "walls" ? They are no more than small "bumps"
> smothered with sand. you can walk right over then
> and not even realize it.



Sure have. They sure are.

If I was a 12th century Egyptian looking to build a large monument, and I had the following two choices, which would I pick?


1. Get out my pickaxe and chisels and go break up stones in a quarry. Then, flatten the sides. Then, put them in my donkey cart and bring them back to town.

or...

2. Take a stone from the stacks of them at Giza that were once used as walls around the pyramids and load THEM into my cart and drive them back to town.


Come on, Clive. Do you really think these stones weren't harvested by the millions? Who in their right (Muslim) mind would leave an ancient Pagan necropolis ALONE when taking stones to build a new (Muslim) city?

And so you know, there are many areas in Old Cairo where the stones they harvested can be found in the walls of buildings. They still have their hieroglyphic inscriptions on them to prove it.

You've got to deal with five thousand years of facts here... not just snapshots of today's particular situations.

Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.