[SunkenCiv]

• Update: Return to the Great Pyramid [ Bob Brier & Jean-Pierre Houdin ]

  07/14/2009 4:59:29 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 46 replies · 2,315+ views

  Archaeology · Volume 62 Number 4, July/August 2009 · Bob Brier

  All of the current theories -- a long, straight ramp, a ramp that corkscrewed around the outside of the pyramid, or cranelike shadoufs (used in Egypt until recently for irrigating fields) -- have serious flaws... architect Jean-Pierre Houdin and I presented a radical new theory: that blocks of stone were raised to the very top of the pyramid on an internal ramp. We gave what we felt was strong evidence for the theory, which explains a French team's microgravemetric survey in the 1980s that recorded variations in the density of the pyramid... an image from the survey may show a...

• Egyptologists use high-tech software to analyze construction of Great Pyramid

  10/21/2008 6:14:48 AM PDT · by Mike Fieschko · 16 replies · 1,884+ views

  physorg.com · October 21, 2008 · Sumathi Reddy and Nia-Malika Henderson

  Using cutting edge technology, Egyptologist Bob Brier of the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University delved into the only standing wonder of the ancient world, the Great Pyramid, and uncovered the mystery behind cracks in the massive Egyptian structure, unearthing a new room along the way. Brier, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin and a team of software specialists from Dassault Systems in Paris used 3-D modeling software to determine that the burial chamber's stone support beams cracked as final construction of the Giza wonder was near completion 4,500 years ago. The team discovered that the cracks occurred when three...

• Architect Says Pyramid Built Inside Out

  03/31/2007 9:48:03 AM PDT · by Clintonfatigued · 37 replies · 836+ views

  AOL News · March 31, 2007 · Tim Hepher

  A French architect said on Friday he had cracked a 4,500-year-old mystery surrounding Egypt's Great Pyramid, saying it was built from the inside out. Previous theories have suggested Pharaoh Khufu's tomb, the last surviving example of the seven great wonders of antiquity, was built using either a vast frontal ramp or a ramp in a corkscrew shape around the exterior to haul up the stonework. But flouting previous wisdom, Jean-Pierre Houdin said advanced 3D technology had shown the main ramp which was used to haul the massive stones to the apex was contained 10-15 meters beneath the outer skin, tracing...

• Architect claims to solve pyramid secret

  03/30/2007 4:57:51 PM PDT · by Man50D · 52 replies · 1,094+ views

  Yahoo News · March 30, 2007 · LAURENCE JOAN-GRANGE

  PARIS - A French architect claimed Friday to have uncovered the mystery about how Egypt's Great Pyramid of Khufu was built -- with use of a spiral ramp to hoist huge stone blocks into place. The construction of the Great Pyramid 4,500 years ago by Khufu, a ruler also known as Cheops, has long befuddled scientists as to how its 3 million stone blocks weighing 2.5 tons each were lifted into place. Ending eight years of study on the subject, architect Jean-Pierre Houdin released his findings and a computerized 3-D mockup showing how workers would have erected the pyramid at...

[Defend Liberty]

Big deal. So does Congress.

[Textide]

This is archaeologically frustrating to me. These are about the biggest manmade things on the planet, they’re thousands of years old, there’s nothing around them, there’s a whole bunch of historical writings about them, yet... we haven’t explored them fully.

Hopefully the new Egyptian government will change that for the better.

[Tea Party Reveler]

Is this like Geraldo Rivera’s “Lost vaults of Al Capone”?

[ViLaLuz]

If they ever open them they’ll find Rahm Emanuel’s furniture.

[UCANSEE2]

Thank you for posting this article.

[Dryman]

Zami hamass will put an end to any further research.

[wendy1946]

The “secret” of the pyramids, particularly the larger ones, is that those blocks were almost certainly poured.

[arrogantsob]

Since there is no real evidence that this was ever a tomb or was ever intended to be a tomb, I doubt that any tomb furniture will be found.

[bmwcyle]

The Hall of Records of the Pre-flood era?

[shield]

And who built the pyramid? Job and Enoch...