ptions in some of the tombs around the Great Pyramid. Researchers now suspect that Howard-Vyse wanted to outdo his rival and gain new support by forging inscriptions inside the Great Pyramid. The Great Pyramid is constructed with 2,300,000 limestone and granite blocks. Weighing between 2.5 and 50 tons each, these stone blocks had to be mined from the earth. But this is a problem. In Cairo, in the museum one can see examples of simple copper and bronze saws, which Egyptologists claim are like those used in the cutting and shaping of pyramid blocks On the scale of mineral hardness, copper and bronze have a hardness of 3.5 to 4, while limestone has a hardness of 4 to 5 and granite of 5 to 6. The known tools would only barely cut through limestone and would be useless with granite. The best steels today have a hardness of only 5.5 and thus are inefficient for cutting granite. Some years ago, one of the fathers of Egyptology said that the pyramid blocks had been cut with long saw blades. But this presents problems also. The cutting of millions of blocks would require millions of diamonds and corundum, which would wear out and would have to be replaced. It was also suggested that the limestone blocks were cut with citric acid or vinegar, but they leave the surfaces pitted and rough, and these agents are completely useless for the cutting of granite. The truth is, we have no idea how the blocks were actually mined. The unsolved problem of how the 2,300,000 blocks were taken to the building site of the pyramid is even another mystery. Still further evidence that the dynastic Egyptians did not construct the Great Pyramid may be found in sediments surrounding the base of the monument. Silt sediments that are fourteen feet around the base of the pyramid contain seashells and fossils that have been radiocarbon-dated to be twelve thousand years old. These sediments could have been deposited in such great quantities only by major sea flo...
