| Show now the pyramids were unlit A moneyed man who was looking at the procesa of laying an artificial atone pavement in front of ona of his many properties startled the friends who were standing about him by 1 I believe that the egyptian pyramids were built in just that way pressed for an ha said that while he had never been in egypt he had read the works of all egyptologists including brugsch and piazzi smyth and had never found in any of tham a theory which would satisfactorily account for the manner in which the pyramids were constructed now he said you must remember that the pyramids are built of stone which bears no resemblance to anything found within miles 0 their location it is incredible that the egyptians of four or five thousand years ago should have possessed the mechanical ingenuity to move these enormous bloate of from the granite quarried qu arriea of abyssinia or syria to the pyramids Is it not much more 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 ia a much more plausible ex plana tion of their construction than the laborious and unintelligent suppositions that the stones were carried across the desert to form the foundation and base or the pyramids I 1 firmly believe that the nd of the ante christian era understood manufacture of artificial stone aud that they built the pyramids out of it philadelphia press |
