You can't just re-use stone blocks!

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I love the lengths that people will go to explain stuff that is well known to historians to be regular human behavior by speculating about extremely unlikely world changing events.
- …but… the aliens… (｡╯︵╰｡)
- If you call them out they'll call you closed-minded.
Hmm... Cairo is an underwater tomb city. Nice.
I don't get it. Can someone explain?
- The missing stones you see in the picture at the bottom half of the pyramids, called casing stones, are believed to have been taken and reused as building materials. But the person in the picture is claiming they wasted away due to some previous sea level rise in the area.
  
  And let's be clear, by sea level rise, they are talking about the Biblical flood of Noah.
  
  For what it’s worth: if it was sea water, the damage would have been different, salt water is rather destructive. Also on the inside parts that would have been submerged . Plus, there would have been remnants of seaweed, shells etc.
  Fun fact aside: The early Egyptians must have had a much greener and humid climate than we generally think, so OOP was onto something…. and then did a rabbit hole deep dive. Oh well.
That original post feels like it's written by an LLM.
- You haven't seen the ancient aliens crowd?
  We have such sights to show you.
When unicorns missed Noah's Ark !
Historical proofs /s : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unicorn_(song)
I remembet reading something about how The Pyramids used to be white, but Europeans stole the stones they were covered with so now they're that color. Take this with a grain of salt tho, I'm not sure if it's actually true.
- Europeans did not steal them, locals did and re-used them. But yes, they used to be cladded with brilliant white limestone with a gold cap at the top.
  They would have looked similar to this:
  After the sun itself, it would be the brightest thing any Egyptian would be likely to see. Which was sort of the point. You can sort of think of it as the path the Pharaoh would take to the sun.
  
  Damn, it looks so smooth.
  
  Jesus Christ that's....
  Yea. Wow. Thta's honestly impressive looking.

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