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My name is Prof. Mario Collepardi and I am a professor of “Materials Science and Technology” at the Politecnico of Milan, Italy. Yesterday I have seen your interview by Mr. Giacobbo at the “Stargate” program on “La 7″ Italian TV channel. I am very interested to your theory about the building technique used by Egyptians [...]
I recently read your book regarding the construction of the pyramids and was impressed with the overall coherence of the theory. Hopefully, in the future, popular opinion will swing in your favor so that you might be allowed to take pyramid samples of your own. This theory is strangely prone to ridicule, yet resistant to [...]
A letter from David Martin about Davidovits’ pyramid theory that illustrates how narrow minded people behaved when facing such problem.
In your book,”The Pyramids”, you discuss possible casting methods for the casing stones of the Great Pyramid and Red Pyramid. You mention that there were inscriptions on the bottoms of these blocks, indicating they were cast [...]
IXth Egyptology Congress, Grenoble, 2004
Construction des pyramides d’après Hérodote:
Etude lexicologique des termes grecs krossai et bomides
dans Hérodote (II, 125) : étymologie égyptienne ou grecque ?
by
Frédéric Davidovits*
( in French, en Français )
Hérodote (II, 125) au début de son texte sur la construction de la pyramide de Khéops utilise krossai et bômides, mots rarissimes dans la littérature [...]
IXth Egyptology Congress, Grenoble, 2004
Why Djoser’s blue Egyptian faience tiles are not blue?
Manufacturing Djoser’s faience tiles
at temperatures as low as 250°C?
by
Joseph Davidovits and Ralph Davidovits
30,000 blue faience tiles were found in Djoser’s funerary complex at Saqqarah (3. dynasty). It is generally assumed that the tiles underwent a self-glazing process during firing in the range of [...]
Vth Egyptology Congress, Cairo, 1988
The Famine Stele and the construction of Pyramids with man-made stone
by Joseph Davidovits
Egyptologists have long claimed that no records exist which describe how the Pyramids were built. A stone stela is engraved on a rock at the island Sehel, near Elephantine, Egypt, north of Aswan. It was discovered in 1889 by [...]
by Joseph Davidovits
published in Science in Egyptology, Proceedings of the Science in Egyptology Symposia, Manchester, U.K., pp. 511-520, 1984.
The hypothesis that the limestone that constitutes the major pyramids of the Old Kingdom of Egypt is man-made stone, is discussed. Samples from six different sites at the traditionally associated quarries of Turah and Mokattam have been [...]
Microstructural Evidence of Reconstituted Limestone Blocks in the Great Pyramids of Egypt, Barsoum, M. W., Ganguly, A. & Hug, G., JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 89 (12), 3788- 3796, (2006). See the abstract
The Proceedings of Geopolymer 2005 World Congress, 4th Int. Conference on geopolymers, Edited by J. Davidovits, Geopolymer Institute, France 2006. See [...]
In Sept. 2004, at the IXth International Congress of Egyptologists, Grenoble, France, Prof. Joseph Davidovits and Dr. Frederic Davidovits presented several papers depicting the chemical knowledge of the Egyptians involved in pyramid building.
One was dedicated to the manufacture of the famous blue faience tiles, like those adorning the subterranean galleries of the Djoser Step-Pyramid at [...]
