TIL the Great Pyramid of Giza was originally covered in polished white limestone

I was reading a book on ancient Egyptian construction and found out that the outer casing stones were so reflective that the pyramid would have glowed like a beacon in the sun. Most of those stones were stripped off by locals in the Middle Ages to build buildings in Cairo, which is wild to think about. Do you think it would be worth trying to restore even a small section of that casing to see how it looked, or is it better to leave the pyramids as they are now with the weathered core exposed?

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jessica3313d ago

Nah I gotta disagree, the weathered look is part of their history now. Stripping the casing away and leaving the core exposed tells its own story about how humans have interacted with those structures over time.

the_sage3d agoMost Upvoted

My neighbor in Queens glued glow-in-the-dark stars to a brick wall and called it "authentic".

brooke4483d ago

@the_sage a wall with glue on it is just a wall with glue on it.