Uncovering The Secrets Of The Great Pyramid

IOL ^ | 8-29-2004 | Annick Benoist

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[The Wizard]

read Chris Dunn's book, "the Giza Power Plant" and you will all you need to know.

[The Wizard]

and you will LEARN all you need to know.

[Sacajaweau]

My mind tells me that the Pyramids are structurally, a honey comb, built partially on a hill and there are a lot of chambers...most of them empty.

[battlegearboat]

"they discovered what appeared to be a cavity underneath the Queen's chamber"

In view of how long it's been since she's seen a dentist, I'm not at all surprised.

[sharktrager]

The real story is that the "gentleman" in charge doesn't want anyyone else to hone in on his territory.

The fact that he prefers to only support theories that result in TV specials on Fox is a bit of a problem for real research.

At least it's some French guys getting dissed.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Maybe the French will find their balls are buried there too!

[bert]

I'll have to get it.

Meanwhile, I'm a Peter Tompkins fan.

Geodesy and measurements is what it's all about.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

My favorite hypothesis is this one: The pyramids aren't really old. Bechtel built them as a tourist attraction during the 1950's when old Farouk had some left-over oil money.

[pepsi_junkie]

Two French amateur archaelogists this week published a book in which they claim to have located the secret burial chamber of the Pyramid of Cheops near Cairo, the largest pyramid ever built.

Sounds believable to me. After all, if you want to find a hiding place who better to find it than the French, with their well known expertise at running and hiding?

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Now, THAT'S FUNNY.

[Hank Rearden]

It's been done.

[Calvin Locke]

RE: Dentists

They didn't need them. IIRC, the dang sand got in to everything, especially food, and chewing naturally wore down
the teeth, eliminating the need for dentists.

[Calvin Locke]

Gene Scott? The guy on shortwave?

Isn't he and Bill Clinton cut from the same piece of cloth?

[Hank Rearden]

Isn't he and Bill Clinton cut from the same piece of cloth?

I don't think Sh$#head Clinton has windup band monkeys on his desk, but . . . yes. Basically the same, right down to the cigar, the hypocritical lying and the theft.

[battlegearboat]

TMI

[SunkenCiv]

Japanese scientists later confirmed the existence of a cavity a few metres wide, using radar technology. The French team suggests this is a corridor leading to a further chamber, hidden deep in the belly of the pyramid,

I read about another Japanese study that drilled some very tiny holes sideways out of (if memory serves; it's been 15 years or more) the King's Chamber. They claimed to have found at least one chamber, but what they and these others have discovered is, the Pyramid underwent a wrenching catastrophe. The corbels of the Grand Gallery are holding on by a fraction of an inch on one end, the result of a tremendous earthquake in ancient times. Evidently it took place prior to Khafre's pyramid (the second big one at Giza). Fourth dynasty engineers (for want of a better term) dug those wormholes upward into those stress relieving chambers above the King's Chamber, in order to inspect the damage.

While it's possible that Khufu's mummy was removed at that time, due to fear that the whole works was going to collapse (one of Sneferu's pyramids did collapse, during construction; he was Khufu's father, and outdid him in sheer volume with his three pyramids; the collapsed pyramid is the one at Meidum, and is generally attributed to Huni, but finished by Sneferu); it's also possible that the burial place was intended to be at the bottom of the lower shaft, in that interesting, unfinished chamber deep under the pyramid, down in the bedrock, and that the earthquake convinced them otherwise. The established pattern prior to Khufu seems to have been a burial chamber deep under the pyramids and mastabas.

It's also possible that the pyramid was built as a cenotaph, and Khufu's actual tomb was somewhere else (perhaps nowhere near Giza). Most likely however, Khufu was laid to rest in the sarcophagus that is built into the King's Chamber, and his tomb was robbed in ancient times, probably during the chaotic period that seems to have closed out the 4th dynasty. IMHO of course. ;')

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[SunkenCiv]

In "The Giza Power Plant" the authors claim that the Great Pyramid was built to provide electric power to run the ancient Egyptians' dremel tools and stuff.

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The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt by Christopher P. Dunn

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