robin cook Wrote:
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> Well I suppose you are right. But I have examined
> Giza stonework in situ (for example in Khufu
> King's chamber and the jointing of pavements) but
> the joints inside the Bent blew me away (assuming
> the pictures are not fake). And the ability to
> achieve such near perfection in buildings
> separated by just a few years (like the step
> pyramid) seems inexplicable. I'll crawl back under
> my rock.

In some cases (such as Menkaure's mortuary temple), the appearance of the stone blocks could be explained by the fact that they were placed in the construction in the same strata as in the quarry:

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the stones rest in the walls with the natural strata horizontal and usually with
that side up which was upwards in the quarry. Those stones which have the quarry ledge on the
upper edge have probably been turned over the wrong way in setting, but still have the strata. horizontal. (Reisner, 73)

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