Origyptian Wrote:
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> Warwick Wrote:
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> > how would the requirements of restoration re the
> > casing blocks of G1 be any less technologically
> > demanding than erecting the pyramid in the first
> > place??
>
> Respectfully, to what casing blocks are you
> referring? How do you know what those "restored"
> blocks looked like, how big they were, how they
> were quarried, shaped, and finished, and how
> precisely they were fitted into place? Have you
> seen the "restorations" Hawass did in G1? They're
> atrocities that erase much of the investigational
> history and evidence of that monument. Have you
> seen the restorations of the Sphinx that were
> performed over the past few centuries? How about
> all the spolia that was used to restore some of
> the walls in the area, including all that scrap
> rubble that was used on the wall that traversed
> over the southern boat pit. Do you believe that
> was original construction?!

Evasion, answering a question with questions.

Allow me to remind you that you’re the one posited a restoration project—while your hatchet job on the radiocarbon project invokes restoration or repairs which plainly implicate the casing.

M.