Origyptian wrote:

> Audrey wrote:
>
> > DUNE wrote:
> >
> > > So if the Black Granite can be confirmed, then its source
> > > should be sought .
> >
> > I found two mentions of the stone that name what kind of rock
> > it is. One is from John Romer in "The Great Pyramid: Ancient
> > Egypt Revisited"
> > footnote 24 on page 490
> >

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This stone formerly known as 'diorite', or more
> > precisely 'Chephren diorite' after a celebrated statue of
> that
> > king, is now labelled (Aston et al. 2000,pp. 33-5) under the
> > geologically accurate though less specific designation of
> > 'diorite - or gabbro - gneiss'.

> > Also on page 161 he describes the stone :
> >

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Underneath the royal name, an elegant if brief
> > inscription informed all travellers that they had come to
> > "The hunting ground of Khufu"; this presumably a
> > geological hunting ground for the unique stone that is only
> to
> > be found at this place and the self-same stone, in fact, on
> > which Khufu's inscription had been cut, a dense and mottled
> > greenish gneiss, with the fresh matte bloom of a grape and a
> > strange blue hint of inner iridescence. (24)

> > On page 165 (search for 'desert copper') he has a photo and
> > description of a copper chisel found "close by the great
> stela
> > of King Khufu". His comments on tools are worth reading.
> >
> [books.google.com]
> >
> > In "Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century" by
> > Hawass it is called gabbro-gneiss and this book gives quite a
> > bit of info on the quarries, ramps, trenches, and what type
> of
> > vehicle was used for transport, including dimensions.
> >
> [books.google.com]
> >
>
> For what it's worth, the comments by both Romer and Hawass date
> to 2000. Apparently, something changed that made the
> authorities remove the stele's label in the Cairo Museum
> according to Jon Bodsworth's 2004 photo of it.
>
> Murray was very clear in his description that the stele does
> not have the characteristic marbeling of gneiss which is why he
> called it black granite. The lack of marbeling is apparent in
> every photograph of the stone. The Khufu Stele does not at all
> resemble the stone comprising the seated Khafre ("Chephren")
> statue.
>
> By the way, has anyone ever addressed the circumstances under
> which all six of the Chephren gneiss statues ended up at the
> bottom of a well, with only the one statue remaining intact and
> the other broken into pieces?
>
> As a side note, sorry, but I do not consider any report from
> Zahi to be accepted as fact. There are too many problems with
> the conclusions he has drawn in his works.


Why should any of us bother to present valid evidence when you reject it out of hand EVERY TIME???