Geopolymer

And literally one year later, Zahi Hawass then banned the study and removal of any stone or pyramid block in Egypt.

So you are, it is completely illegal to take any bit of stone, even if it is like naturally organically fallen off a building or a temple or a pyramid, you are not allowed to take it and analyze it, um, for Geopolymer.

Weird.

So Davidovits, like, kind of started the argument.

nod to the fact that they created stones with minerals from the famine stealer.

And Joseph Davidovits, not only did he do the paper in the 1980s, I think he did other later papers as well.

He works with, or he is in charge of, the Institute of Geopolymer in France.

And in 2017, they decided to do a pretty big experiment where they were going to replicate and try and make, I think, 17 ton pyramid blocks completely organically, authentically using the kind of recipe from the famine stone and they documented it and they filmed it and they did it they got a group of volunteers who did exactly the method that they predicted that they would use by grinding down the limestone and adding the natron adding the lime and they mixed it with the water and they cast it and they started to build literally a wall of pyramid blocks and they could show and they could produce pretty accurate limestone blocks that had the um you know the the way that the pyramid blocks are cut so close together that you can't even put like a credit card or like a razor blade in between and everyone's like how did they cut them so precisely um they they could replicate exactly that on these limestone blocks um by by using this Natron geopolymer method.