A Piece of the Pyramids

We received all kinds of souvenirs, knickknacks and bric-a-brac for the Send Us Your Weird Things (That You Brought Back From a Trip) Contest. We will post some of the many submissions here and the winning entry will be published in Issue 6.

My wife and I saw the majestic Giza Pyramids but felt something was amiss. The Pyramid was layered with some other stone and only the cap was left.

Our guide then told us the story about how originally resplendent these pyramids were. Apparently the Pyramids were capped with casing stones made from gleaming white Tura Limestone. I wondered if the Pyramids glowed under the moonlight, just like the Taj Mahal. It would have been a wondrous sight.

Unfortunately, Bahri Sultan An-Nasir Nasir-ad-Din al-Hasan ransacked these pyramids and used the polished Tura stones to build Mosques in Cairo. As a result of prying off the 15-ton stone blocks, quite a bit got shattered and you still find lots of small pieces strewn on the desert floor.

 

That’s what I brought home…to my amazement; the piece glowed when placed beside a lamp. The rock was translucent!

Now I have a piece of history that brings me back in time…every time it glows when the sun touches it.

Keep an eye on Nowheremag.com for the Issue 6 release this month. Send submissions to Nowhere here.