Egypt
- Pyramids - Norwegian Researcher Unlocks Construction Secrets
Heritage Key For thousands of years, scientists from around the world have tried to understand how the Egyptians designed and built the Great Pyramid of Giza – the last remaining of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Now, an architect and researcher...
- Emails Re How The Pyramids Were Built
Someone sent me an email recently with their personal theory about how the Giza pyramids were built. In general I should probably explain that I receive a two or three "how they built the pyramids" emails a month. They are usually well thought out and...
- A New Angle On Pyramids
The Boston Globe (Colin Nickerson) It's a theory that gives indigestion to mainstream archeologists. Namely, that some of the immense blocks of Egypt's Great Pyramids might have been cast from synthetic material - the world's first concrete...
- Scientist Says Concrete Was Used In Pyramids
http://tinyurl.com/y5po98 (nytimes.com)"In new research on the Great Pyramids of Giza, a scientist says he has found more to their construction than cut natural limestone. Some original parts of the massive structures appear to be made of concrete blocks.If...
- The Great Pyramid – Precision Engineering
http://mathaba.net/x.htm?http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=243517 "The real challenge the Great Pyramid still poses to us in the opening decade of the Third Millennium is the physical plant itself. Theorists have gone on endlessly speculating about how...
Egypt
Michel Barsoum Great Pyramid construction theory
Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for sending me these links.
http://www.livescience.com/history/070518_bts_barsoum_pyramids.html
A summary of Michel Barsoum's research into whether or not a form of concrete was used in the construction of the Great Pyramid has been posted at the above address. Barsoum is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University.
Lecture: Engineering New Frontiers
http://tinyurl.com/2ujkz3 (media.irt.drexel.edu)
You will find a video of a lecture delivered at Drexel University, accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation, by Michel Barsoum. The lecture is enitled The Surprising Truth Behind the Construction of the Great Pyramids. The lecture originally aired on the 23rd February 2007 and it lasts for around an hour and 20 minutes. As with so many real-life presentations, Barsoum is plagued by a few technical problems at the beginning, but he then presents his theories about how the Great Pyramid was built. The PowerPoint changes automatically as the video proceeds - it's a rather nice use of the Web to communicate conventionally presented information.
Barsoum's own website can be found at:
http://www.livescience.com/history/070518_bts_barsoum_pyramids.html
A summary of Michel Barsoum's research into whether or not a form of concrete was used in the construction of the Great Pyramid has been posted at the above address. Barsoum is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University.
Lecture: Engineering New Frontiers
http://tinyurl.com/2ujkz3 (media.irt.drexel.edu)
You will find a video of a lecture delivered at Drexel University, accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation, by Michel Barsoum. The lecture is enitled The Surprising Truth Behind the Construction of the Great Pyramids. The lecture originally aired on the 23rd February 2007 and it lasts for around an hour and 20 minutes. As with so many real-life presentations, Barsoum is plagued by a few technical problems at the beginning, but he then presents his theories about how the Great Pyramid was built. The PowerPoint changes automatically as the video proceeds - it's a rather nice use of the Web to communicate conventionally presented information.
Barsoum's own website can be found at:
http://www.materials.drexel.edu/Pyramids/
"Professor Michel Barsoum, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University, and colleagues have found scientific evidence that parts of the Great Pyramids of Giza were built using an early form of concrete, debunking an age old myth that they were built using only cut limestone blocks."
- Pyramids - Norwegian Researcher Unlocks Construction Secrets
Heritage Key For thousands of years, scientists from around the world have tried to understand how the Egyptians designed and built the Great Pyramid of Giza – the last remaining of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Now, an architect and researcher...
- Emails Re How The Pyramids Were Built
Someone sent me an email recently with their personal theory about how the Giza pyramids were built. In general I should probably explain that I receive a two or three "how they built the pyramids" emails a month. They are usually well thought out and...
- A New Angle On Pyramids
The Boston Globe (Colin Nickerson) It's a theory that gives indigestion to mainstream archeologists. Namely, that some of the immense blocks of Egypt's Great Pyramids might have been cast from synthetic material - the world's first concrete...
- Scientist Says Concrete Was Used In Pyramids
http://tinyurl.com/y5po98 (nytimes.com)"In new research on the Great Pyramids of Giza, a scientist says he has found more to their construction than cut natural limestone. Some original parts of the massive structures appear to be made of concrete blocks.If...
- The Great Pyramid – Precision Engineering
http://mathaba.net/x.htm?http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=243517 "The real challenge the Great Pyramid still poses to us in the opening decade of the Third Millennium is the physical plant itself. Theorists have gone on endlessly speculating about how...