Show how the pyramids were bollt A moneyed man who was looking at the process of laying an artificial stone pavement in front of ona of his many properties startled the friends who were standing about him by remarking 1 I believe that the egyptian pyramids were built in just that way pressed for an explanation he said that while he had never been in egypt ha had read abo works of all egyptologists including brugsch and piazzi smyth and had never found in any of them a theory which would satisfactorily account for the manner in which the pyramids wera constructed now he baid you must remember that the pyramids are built of stone which bears no resemblance to anything found within miles of their location it is incredible that the egyptians of four or five thousand years ago should have possessed she mechanical ingenuity to move these enormous blocks of stone from tha granite quarries of abyssinia or syria to the pyramids la it not much moro natural to suppose that the ancient egyptians possessed the secret of making artificial stone and that the pyramids were constructed by layer upon layer of nile river mud hardened by just such processes as we employ to make artificial stone it is a much more plausible esplana tion of their construction than the laborious and unintelligent suppositions that the stones were carried across the desert to form the foundation and base ot the pyramids I 1 firmly believe that tho egyptians of the ante christian era understood the manufacture of artificial atone and that they built the pyramids out of philadelphia press |