{"id":776,"date":"2010-11-30T19:42:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T08:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=776"},"modified":"2011-06-19T10:12:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T00:12:23","slug":"bent-pyramid-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2010\/11\/bent-pyramid-concrete-776.html","title":{"rendered":"NZ Professor \u2013 Bent Pyramid Made from Concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Ken MacKenzie from the Macdiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology in Wellington, has announced the results of a study that included scientists from the UK and USA. Their findings were released last week at a conference in Japan and published in the journal Materials Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n

State-of-the-art analytical techniques have enabled them to study the nuclear structure of the casing stone of the Bent Pyramid in Dahshour. The results<\/a> suggest that the casing stones are artificial, cast from minerals found in the surrounding area. The abstract<\/a> for the paper says:<\/p>\n

A comparison was made of the solid-state 29<\/sup>Si, 27<\/sup>Al and 43<\/sup>Ca MAS NMR spectra of the outer casing stone from Snefru’s Bent Pyramid in Dahshour, Egypt, with two quarry limestones from the area. The NMR results suggest that the casing stones consist of limestone grains from the Tura quarry, cemented with an amorphous calcium-silicate gel formed by human intervention, by the addition of extra silica, possibly diatomaceous earth, from the Fayium area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the third separate study that has reached the same conclusion, following on from the work of Joseph Davidovits and Michel Barsoum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While is solves a big part of the puzzle, there are certainly gigantic pieces of stone (not concrete) all around the world, including structural parts of Egyptian pyramids, where we are still unable to explain how they were moved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Ken MacKenzie from the Macdiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology in Wellington, has announced the results of a study that included scientists from the UK and USA. Their findings were released last week at a conference in Japan and published in the journal Materials Letters.
\nState-of-the-art analytical techniques have enabled them to study the nuclear structure of the casing stone of the Bent Pyramid in Dahshour. The results suggest that the casing stones are artificial, cast from minerals found in the surrounding area. The abstract for the paper says:
\nA comparison was made of the solid-state 29Si, 27Al and 43Ca MAS NMR spectra of the outer casing stone from Snefru’s Bent Pyramid in Dahshour, Egypt, with two quarry limestones from the area. The NMR results suggest that the casing stones consist of limestone grains from the Tura quarry, cemented with an amorphous calcium-silicate …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[363],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pyramids","tag-concrete-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}