The French engineer who saved the Great Pyramid of been demolished

Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant




 The French engineer who saved the Great Pyramid of been demolished
originally emigrated to Egypt in the year 1820 and was the cause of saving the pyramid of Cheops from demolition under Mohammed Ali ..

Documents released show that Muhammad Ali Pasha, the founder of the modern Egyptian Renaissance had issued his order to the French engineer Linan to recycle the great pyramids blocks  in order to build the  Qanater ..

Linan Pasha Was  aware that the rejection of the command means he will be isolated and so he did a feasibility study as which had proved that the quantities of stones of the Great Pyramid will increase four times as desired , and  the stones of the small pyramid of Menkaure is not sufficient for the construction .. as explained in his study that the cost of transporting one meter of  pyramid's stones will coast ten piasters , while the cost of transporting from a close quarries  to the area  only coast eight pennies and thus be cheaper  ..

Thus, the pyramid of Cheops was released one of the wonders of the universe ..

And Linan Pasha, who was born in France in 1799 and died in Cairo in 1883 emigrated to Egypt and fill the chief engineer of the era of Muhammad Ali and even digging the Suez Canal was His idea in the drilled and chief engineers to be arrived to the Minister of Works in 1869 to be retired and received the title of Pasha in 1873 and lived in Egypt until his death 1883

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