December 30, 2007 07:47AM
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> Where are the pieces? Who knows? They could be
> anywhere by now. They've had a long time to
> disappear.
Almost everything eventually disappears but when we look for evidence it's the pieces which haven't yet disappeared that are important, for instance the cement in the undercut lid grooves of Khafre's sarcophagus, or the cement and broken pins remnants in the pin holes, that which held the lid tight.
In Khufu's sarcophagus this cement to hold a lid firm has completely disappeared, including that which we would surely hope to find in the pin holes.
It's just such small details which add weight to a lidless sarcophagus.
I would imagine that pieces of a granite lid would make a good souvenir but if there wasn't any lid then chipping away at the edges of the sarcophagus would suffice and that seems to be what happened, at least for the last 200 years up to the present.
Graham
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