Clive wrote:

>There is no evidence of a second layer of casing stones on this pyramid...never has been...never will be<

I know you won't take any notice of the following because I've posted it before when you've made your baseless claim but I might as well try.

I think you need to take the advice of Piazzi Smyth who was similarly confronted with someone who claimed that the Great Pyramid had not been cased.

He describes the person as "only too faithful examples of the small extent of information on which many persons, of commanding social rank, will yet persist in speaking most authoritatively on both the present, and the long past, state of the Great Pyramid. Yet the doubter about the casing-stones should at least have read the accounts of Herodotus, Strabo, Pliny, and many early Arabian authors, who describe what they saw before their eyes when the casing was still complete, and eminently smooth and beautiful"

I would also add the following to the reading list:

Maragioglio & Rinaldi Volume 4 p.16 "...some fragmentary blocks are still to be seen a little way down from the actual summit".

Rutherford "Pyramidology" Vol 4 p.1298 "...a most interesting find of some fragmentary blocks of casing stones just a little way down from the Pyramid's summit"

Professor Jacques Vandier "Manuel d'Archéologie Égptienne" p.30.

When Smyth visited Giza in 1864 he describes the vast piles of rubble that masked the bottom of the sides of the Great Pyramid. Amongst this rubble were numerous pieces of "casing-stones fragments with the angle" intact ("Our Inheritance at the Great Pyramid" p.26). All these pieces were well above the level of the first course. Perhaps you would like to explain how they managed to "migrate" upwards through the rubble from the base? Obviously they could only have come from higher up on the pyramid.

You also need to explain the numerous "backing" or "packing" stones which are still in place on many layers. These are distinct from the ordinary core blocks as they are cut to receive the casing stones. They make no sense at all if the casing stones were never placed.

Then there are the marks clearly visible on the tops of the remaining casing stones of the cuts made when the stones on top where cut and placed.

There's so much evidence for the casing of the Great Pyramid that your claim is ridiculous.

You need to adress all the evidence above before making the claim again but I know that awkward facts that prove you wrong have never stopped you in the past.

Jon

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