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A HISTORICAL LIE: THE STONE AGE
If One Wished to Rebuild the Pyramids . . .
In 1978, the Indiana Limestone Institute of America, Inc.—one
of the world's leading authorities on limestone—carried out a
thought-provoking feasibility study to learn what size workforce
and what kind of materials would be needed to build a pyramid
similar to the Great Pyramid of Giza. The company officials de-
scribed the difficulty involved, noting that if they tripled present-
day average production, quarrying, fabricating and shipping such a
quantity of limestone would take approximately 27 years. In addi-
tion, all this work would be done using modern American technol-
ogy—in other words, hydraulic hammers and electrical
crystal-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
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 constructing the pyramids, the Egyptians used a very different and su-
perior technology.
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