French Egyptologists Defend Pyramid Theory

My Way News ^ | 9/4/04 | PAUL GARWOOD/AP

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French theory on Pyramids: They were actually giant symbols of surrender.

[JoeGar]

His theory is that the Kings Chamber is a temperature/pressure controlled room and the sarcophagus is a volumetric measuring vessel developed to establish true measuring devices for grain or other commodities requiring accurate measurement standardization.

In The Giza Power Plant, the author points out that the sarcophagus is cut from a solid piece of rock, its four corners are very precisely drilled, and its bottom is perfectly flat when measured with an engineer's rod. His theory is that the sarcophagus is so precisely hollowed out that it could only have been done by machine.

[JoeGar]

... was it at all plausible; or, just an 'interesting read'?

It was all plausible from a mechanical engineering point of view. I don't remember any chemical engineering comments -- it's been a while since I read the book -- except that the shafts (too small for humans) were, in theory, used to pour chemicals into the main chamber for combining.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, I'll ping everyone when I'm home again.

related topic:

Uncovering The Secrets Of The Great Pyramid
IOL ^ | 8-29-2004 | Annick Benoist
Posted on 08/29/2004 8:46:23 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202336/posts

[ApplegateRanch]

Thanks. Do you remember title/author? Now I'm curious enough to read it, if it is still on shelves somewhere.

After reading sci-fi for 50 years, one more book won't hurt at all. :)

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There is an interesting magazine which has been publishing for about a decade called "Atlantis Rising." I have found it at our local Hastings book store. They have had articles in their past issues about the book Joe Gar mentioned as well as others with similar themes.

You might want to check out

www.atlantisrising.com

[TEXOKIE]

Here's a better link:

http://atlantisrising.com/

[SunkenCiv]

The late Luis Alvarez (most familiar due to the Alvarez model for impact-induced mass extinctions) conducted a cosmic ray detection experiment in the Khafre pyramid at Giza. A weird result he got led him a little astray at first, but eventually he figured out what was happening. He concluded that Khafre has no unknown chambers, at least as far as cosmic ray detection can find, and suggested the use of radar to make a quicker and more accurate study. I think the details can be found in that old Peter Tompkins book, but I dunno for sure. There's very little about this in Google.

Secrets of the Great Pyramid by Peter Tompkins with Livio Catullo Stecchini

didn't realize the late Livio Stecchini contributed to the volume (probably the foreword?).

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[SunkenCiv]

Here's a link to the title, found in a post in the earlier topic.

[SunkenCiv]

The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved by Joseph Davidovits first edition website

[SunkenCiv]

Hawass: "I will not let Egyptian blood be damaged by amateurs."

Nope, he insists on doing all the damage himself. ;')

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, I'd forgotten about that one.

[ApplegateRanch]

Thanks!

[ApplegateRanch]

...and thank you, too, Sir!

Soon as I finish Unit For Command & Tolkien's Lost Tales....

[DJ MacWoW]

Teal'c will get you for that!

Only if I'm right and you might be surprised how fast this old bird could run with someone that big behind me. I guess I'd be surprised too! :-)

[solitas]

FYI: http://www.touregypt.net/godsofegypt/

NEAT site!

[solitas]

No doubt. From everything I've ever read about Hawass, he comes off as a pompous jerk.

You ought to try catching him on a Discovery- or History- or Learning- Channel show. It's almost entertaining to see him hyperventilate over dead egyptians and piles of rocks. Of course he worships those rocks - without them he'd never be able to get his face in front of a camera.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks wagglebee & farmfriend.

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[MacDorcha]

"His theory is that the sarcophagus is so precisely hollowed out that it could only have been done by machine."


i saw a bit on the Discovery Channel a while back about wind-power being a likely source of constructing the pyramids and erecting the obelisks. they used kites and pullies hooked to temporary structures that fit the chucks of stone together. they backed this up by doing so, and then by witnessing the hyroglyphics with wingspans and noting that they were the perfect deminsions for a level-flying wing.

the idea of the ancient egyptians making machines capable of precision cutting without combustable engines is IMO plausable.

[FairOpinion]

Related article:

2,500-Year-Old Hidden Tomb Found in Egypt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1206236/posts

Egypt's antiquities chief on Thursday revealed a 2,500-year-old hidden tomb under the shadow of one of Giza's three giant pyramids, containing 400 pinkie-finger-sized statues and six coffin-sized niches carved into granite rock.

Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said archaeologists had been working for three months to clear sand from a granite shaft found between the pyramid of Khafre — also known by its Greek name of Chephren — Giza's second-largest tomb of a pharaoh, and the Sphinx.

Under blaring sun Thursday, Hawass said Giza's latest ancient discovery came to light after archaeologists detected what appeared to be a four-sided shaft. The antiquities chief verified it by climbing a pyramid to get a bird's eye look.