Origyptian Wrote:
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> Aine Wrote:
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> > So, based on 14C and other testing, what is the
> > age of the Giza complex?
>
> The "best" C14 study was the 1995 mortar sample
> report on G1. Unfortunately, it was wrought with
> dubious (inexplicably discarded) and contaminated
> (biased surface samples) data. But even though
> there was a very clear possibility of
> contamination with modern carbon, the analyses
> still dated the pyramids an average of a couple
> centuries older. How much older would the dates
> have been if the data was derived from random deep
> core - rather than selected surface - samples?


Here's a popular survey of the 2 most recent 14C dating, one conducted in 1984, and one conducted in 1995. This might be the one Ori tries to discredit above?

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