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The science that made the pyramids possible was chemistry, or, more precisely... alchemy.

— Joseph Davidovits The Pyramids: an Enigma Solved (1988)

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Egyptology has never found any text proving that the pyramids were built with carving stones that were hoisted on sledges and ramps.

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For the god Khnum creation is the divine incarnation in the agglomeration of stone.

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There is no way of distinguishing a synthetic zeolite from a natural one.

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They turned back to mud because mud bricks is also a replica of incarnation, in the materials that belong to the Khnum divinity.

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