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If One Wished to Rebuild the Pyramids ...

In 1978, the Indiana Limestone Institute of America, Inc.—one of the world's leading authorities on lime-
stone—carried out a thought-provoking feasibility study to learn what size workforce and what kind of mate-
rials would be needed to build a pyramid similar to the Great Pyramid of Giza. The company officials

described the difficulty involved, noting that if they tripled present-day average production, quarrying, fabri-
cating and shipping such a quantity of limestone would take approximately 27 years. In addition, all this work
would be done using modern American technology—in other words, hydraulic hammers and electrical crys-
tal-headed saws. Enormous effort would be needed just to quarry and transport the limestone, not including

the laboratory tests necessary for the building of the Pyramid, nor any other such preparatory work. 57
So how did the Ancient Egyptians build these giant pyramids? By what power, with what machinery, by
what techniques were the rock terraces set out? By what means were the rock tombs carved out? How was
lighting provided during construction? (No staining or soot has been found on the walls or ceilings inside the

pyramids and tombs.) How were blocks of stone removed from the quarries, and how were the differently
shaped faces of the blocks smoothed? How were these blocks, weighing several tons, transported, and how
were they fit together to an accuracy of 1/1000 of a centimeter? The list of questions could be a lot longer. Can
they be answered in a logical and rational way through the evolutionist misconception of mankind's history?

Of course not!
With their art, medicine and culture, the Ancient Egyptians produced a giant civilization. The works they
left behind, the medical therapies they used and the accumulated knowledge and experience they possessed
are some of the most important proofs of this. Some scientists today even claim that the works produced by the

Egyptians—for whom, according to the evolution of history thesis, the building of pyramids must have been
exceedingly difficult—were actually made by extraterrestrial visitors.

The Great
Pyramid of
Cheops (Khufu)
consists of some
2.5 million stone
blocks. Assume
that ten blocks
were laid every
day—which
would require an
enormous effort
on the part of the
workers—then it
would take 684
years to lay all
2.5 million
blocks. Yet it is
thought that
such pyramids in
question took an
average of only
20 to 30 years to
build. Just this
simple calcula-
tion reveals that
when construct-
ing the pyra-
mids, the
Egyptians used a
very different
and superior
technology.

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