Stones of the Pyramids Were Poured, Not Chiseled

Drexel University researchers are revising the book on the Pyramids of Egypt, the last surviving wonder of the ancient world. The standard hypothesis for their construction speculates that ancient Egyptians carved the blocks out of nearby deposits of natural limestone, using stone age tools, and then floated the stones on barges, and used primitive ramps and levers to wrestle the blocks into place. The fact is, no one knows even to this day how the Pyramids were built. Many of the limestone blocks fit so perfectly that not even a human hair can fit between them. In interior hallways, seventy ton granite blocks are placed and polished with optical precision. Why have no copper chisels ever been found by archaeologists on the Giza plain? How has the foundation withstood the enormous weight of the structure over the ages?

The technologies employed continue to defy modern explanation. However, announcements from a team of materials Scientists from Drexel University, working with electron microscopes, verify that at least some of the blocks are cast of a unique form of concrete. Professor Michel Barsoum and colleagues have found scientific evidence that parts of the Great Pyramids of Giza were built using an early form of concrete. It has long been known that ancient Rome used concrete extensively for public works, from the Coliseum to the aqueducts. This discovery that a form of concrete was used by the Egyptians is a major new discovery, and will re-write the history books. This discovery is not expected to end the speculation that extraterrestials somehow were involved.