The Surprising Truth About How the Great Pyramids Were Built
Sheila Berninger and Dorilona Rose | May 18, 2007 05:42am ET This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. "This is not my day job," begins Michel Barsoum as he recounts his foray into the mysteries of the Great Pyramids of Egypt. As a well respected researcher in the field of ceramics, Barsoum never expected his career to take him down a path of history, archaeology, and "political" science, with materials research mixed in. Professor Michel Barsoum stands before one of the Egyptian pyramids for which he has found evidence suggesting some of the stone blocks were cast, not quarried. Credit: Michel Barsoum, Drexel University View full size image As a distinguis...