The Pyramids were built with Nummulites ...
Many of Egypt's most famous
monuments, such as the Sphinx and Cheops, contain hundreds of thousands of marine fossils, most of which are fully intact
and preserved in the walls of the structures, according to a new study.
The study's authors suggest that the stones that make up the examined monuments at Giza plateau, Fayum and Abydos
must have been carved out of natural stone since they reveal what chunks of the sea floor must have looked like over 4,000
years ago, when the buildings were erected.
"The observed
random emplacement and strictly homogenous distribution of the fossil shells within the whole rock is in harmony with their
initial in situ setting in a fluidal sea bottom environment," wrote Ioannis Liritzis and his colleagues from the University
of the Aegean and the University of Athens.
The analysis
determined the primary building materials were "pinky" granites, black and white granites, sandstones and various types of
limestones. The latter was found to contain "numerous shell fossils of nummulites gen." At Cheops alone, "(they constituted)
a proportion of up to 40 percent of the whole building stone rock."
When horizontally bisected, a nummulite appears as a perfect spiral. Since they were common in ancient Egypt,
it's believed the shells were actually used as coins, perhaps explaining their name.
ALL NUMMULITES ARE
FROM THE DESERT SOUTH OF FAYOUM OASIS APPROX. 100 km AWAY FROM THE GIZA PYRAMIDS.
