robin cook Wrote:
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> 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

Sorry I'm not seeing what you are suggesting. I once spent an afternoon 'running' all over that particular pyramid and it was - as a whole - 'loose', in the opinion of the Egyptologist i was with (well actually a graduate student) it was due to earthquakes , however, I didn't pay particular attention to the entrance stones.