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Exposed sedimentary bedrocks in pyramids...
Another study in Environmental Geoegyptology
Soliman M. Soliman

Dept. Geology, Fac. Sciences, Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt

CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS

The theme of this research is based on the fact that science is exponentially developing, and interdisciplinary aspects are increasingly dominating.

PREAMBLE
...With the early morning refreshing flowery scented breeze of the gardens and fields of Cairo in the thirties, the well-dressed family in an Egyptian hantour (chariot),... all were to visit their ancestor King Khufu and his Great Pyramid for the first time (to me). This ended anxious sweet dreamy nights, and numerable overrepeated questions and answers...

Passing by the memorable facade of Fonad I Univ. to the pyramids avenue, the Great Pyramid began to appear kilometers away... "It is small, less than my small finger". The father's quite wise brief response... "Wait to see".

That was utterly proven, I was dwarfed beside the ah. 140 m high pyramid, with its 2.5 million limestone blocks in 201 stepped tiers... and its ab. 4600 years of age... I could not embrace one of its blocks with my small arms, even with my eyes or with my inquisitive cognition at that time...

After a joyful day... and with sunset and the creeping dimness of the night, the return home was hill of mixed feelings, but the enchanting visit has been since engraved in oneself...

Later, this has offered a chance of taking advantage of my profession as a sedimentary geologist and my hobby in Ancient Egyptology... not just in descriptive terms but, deeper near the thoughts and theories of our forefathers.

Virtually all Egyptian monuments are on, in, of, by or with the ubiquitous sediments and sedimentary rocks whether in their natural or treated states. Inhibiting the temptation of related interesting aspects of pyramidology, the present summarized research in a wide field bf Environmental Sedimentary Geoegyptology is mainly dealing with the nature of exposed sedimentary bedrocks in the pyramids architectonics, their relationship to the superstructure, occunence and ways of treatment. This has not been studied in any details as yet. . though they were noticed in many instances earlier by Egyptologists but without sedimentologic detailment. It may therefore lead to better understanding of the Ancients state of mind with respect to sedimentology, their long living methodology, and probably having some impact on our techniques of handling such monuments.