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Whither the future of Pyramid City

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  • Bastian, Caleb

    (Massive Dynamics, Princeton, NJ)

  • Bastian, John
  • Rabitz, Herschel

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The Great Pyramids of Ancient Egypt are among the very greatest architectural achievements of humanity and are unique in their monolithic and immutable expressions. A key item is their long-term planning and maintenance as perpetuities. In view of their current state and environment and contemporary technology, resources, and ethics, we propose their complete restoration and maintenance and a collaborative decision making framework for doing so. We advance the perspective that preservation of built heritage is homologous to restoration of form and function in dentistry, and we explore how concepts in dentistry in the approach to patient casework may be applied to considerations of preservation of built heritage, vis-a-vis comprehensive treatment planning and a generalist-specialist model. Key results are existence of homology between dentistry and built heritage, and the interpretation of certain instances of built heritage as archaeo-socio-economic perpetuities. We illustrate comprehensive treatment planning for the Giza Necropolis of Ancient Egypt, containing around 10 million Pharaonic stones. Diagnosis is stone loss and chronic and acute inflammation. Comprehensive treatment planning is outlined in terms of Phases 0 − 3, where 0 is emergency, 1 is information acquisition and control of pathology, 2 is restoration, and 3 is maintenance. Strictly reversible restorations are utilized in as much as Giza Necropolis is unable to give consent. The elaboration of Phase 3 for Giza Necropolis as an archaeo-socio-economic perpetuity conveys a unitary representation called ‘Pyramid City.’

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  • Bastian, Caleb & Bastian, John & Rabitz, Herschel, 2019. "Whither the future of Pyramid City," OSF Preprints a3kep_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:a3kep_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/a3kep_v1
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