Hi Hans,

The picture in your post, showing the 'flattened' casing stones around Menkaure's entrance, reminded me of a discussion here some years ago but I can't find it - I don't know the subject of the thread it was in (side questions on the subject of building methods often crop up here and there in threads devoted to other subjects).

Anyway my point was that the granite casing stones have the appearance of having been flattened before being laid on the pyramid. Also, looking at the joints between the stones, the lower edge of the course below the entrance shows an overlap - it can hardly have been planed or pounded flat at the same time as the course below it. But what do you think?

Robin