Pyramid stone row: Egypt asks Museum of Scotland for papers

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Row over plans by Museum of Scotland to display stone from Great Pyramid of Giza escalates

 

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Legality and repatriation is important and should rightfully be discussed, but in regard to certain statements that the stone can't be real as there is 'no image' of casing on the Great Pyramid, and that it would have been granite casing anyway...um... LooksALotLikeLimestone

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