Our Story
It started with a library book. Joseph Davidovits’ They Built the Pyramids made a case I couldn’t shake — that some of the most famous stonework in the ancient world wasn’t carved, it was cast, like an early form of concrete. I was hooked enough that I ended up writing a novel around the idea: The Castors of Giza, a biblical-fiction take on how it might have actually happened.
For a long time that’s where it stayed — a novel, a personal fascination, a stack of research. Then, about two years ago, I came across the Natron Theory and the growing community of researchers and hobbyists actually testing the idea for themselves. I was finishing a rewrite of the book around the same time, and decided I wanted to be part of that community instead of just reading about it from the sidelines.
That’s how Enigma Stoneworks started. The original plan was simple: sell geopolymer-cast pieces. But the more time I spent in this community, the clearer it became that what people actually needed wasn’t another shop selling stone objects — it was somewhere to learn, compare notes, and work out the chemistry together. That became Stone Recipes: a free, open home for recipes, techniques, and the ongoing experiment of figuring out what ancient builders may have known that we’ve mostly forgotten.
Enigma Stoneworks is what’s left of the original plan, reshaped around that goal — apparel and drinkware for people who find this stuff as fascinating as I do, funding the free side of the work instead of competing with it.