fmetrol Wrote:
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> Warwick L Nixon Wrote:
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> -----
> > but here's the important quote..
> >
> > " We know this because, in the 1830s, Howard
> Vyse
> > blasted a hole in the center of the south
> side of
> > Khufu's's Pyramid while looking for another
> > entrance. This wound in the pyramid can still
> be
> > seen today, and in it, we can see how the
> builders
> > dumped great globs of mortar and stone rubble
> in
> > wide spaces between the stones. "
>
> From the same site you linked to
>
> "Indeed, there was in the mature pyramid structure
> considerable accuracy in their construction, which
> was needed to prevent the entire structure from
> tumbling down...."
>
> I believe your line
>
> "Indeed within the body of the pyramid there's a
> lot of marl/fill."
>
> is simply an unknown. Assumptions can be made but
> short of total dismantlement there is no way of
> knowing one way or the other whether there was "a
> lot of fill" or just the ocassional fill. Perhaps
> there is massive fill and although this has also
> been suggested on the evidence of other pyramids
> having rubble between blocks, far lesser
> constructs have completely tumbled.


I never said anything about a massive degree of fill. I was discussing the overall size of material that was moved.

>
> Khufu still stands.
>
>
> > You can retract your accusation of necromancy
> or
> > whatever on my part, whenever you like
>
> No insult intended Warwick and I regret my humour
> wasn't taken in your stride. I just thought you
> may have had some evidence that in fact there was
> "a lot of marl/fill" I accept the explanation you
> have given for one particular instance of fill but
> I was hoping for more.
>
> Graham


More?? Is logic not a factor in how we perceive their work? Or are you suggesting that Vyse just happened to open up the one part of the whole where fill was used?


Warwick




" I have always found that the main obstacle to free
association on these boards is the broad
misconception that what we do not know is more
significant than what we do know."

Warwick L Nixon, March 8, 2019