Origyptian Wrote:
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> The reason repairs were necessary back then isn't
> that the original builders weren't that good. The
> repairs were made for at least two reasons:
>
> 1. The king chose to add his own flair by
> adding small ancillary structures in the broader
> vicinity of the "pyramid complex" in an effort to
> "make it his own".

This is not repair.

> 2. The Dynastics engaged in restorations the same
> reason we do today - the pyramids were ancient
> even in their day and were already showing a
> tattered condition after centuries or millennia of
> stone pilfering by locals for their own projects.

So cite some evidence of the stone structures resulting over unspecified millennia.

M.