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Posted on 03/30/2007 4:57:51 PM PDT by Man50D
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 Giza outside Cairo.
The most widespread theory had been that an outer ramp had been used by the Egyptians, who left few traces to help archeologists and other scientists decode the secret to the construction.
Houdin said he had taken into account the copper and stone tools available at the time, the granite and limestone blocks, the location of the pyramid and the strength and knowledge of the workers.
According to his theory — shown in a computer model available at http://www.3ds.com/khufu — the builders put up an outer ramp for the first 140 feet, then constructed an inner ramp in a corkscrew shape to complete the 450-foot structure.
Houdin also postulated that King's Chamber was hoisted into place through a system of counterweights.
Houdin said he plans to verify his theories through non-invasive tests on site.
“Famous Egyptologist Daniel Jackson, however, is not convinced.
And, quite tragically, all his work is classified.”
Ok, guys, who is “Daniel Jackson”?
See the movie Stargate, all will be known.
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Another great French invention proven inadequate? As in the Maginot Line and French wine?
...whose first name was Pourk
The exact method for making Roman concrete was lost, but has been reconstructed and demonstrated in recent years. It’s analogous to, but very different from, the method Davidovits has reconstructed for Old Kingdom Egypt. Check out this one:
http://www.monolithic.com/thedome/pantheon/index.html
“...when Michelangelo first saw the Pantheon in the early 1500s, he proclaimed it of ‘angelic and not human design.’ Surprisingly, at that point, this classic Roman temple, converted into a Christian church, was already more than 1350 years old... Though the Romans had been building with concrete since about 200 BC, work on the Pantheon was difficult and proceeded in gradual stages... Vitruvius (cir. 20 BC), a noted Roman architect, recorded the process followed in his day, that was probably still used by the Pantheon’s builders. The ancients hand mixed wet lime and volcanic ash in a mortar box, adding very little water so that they got a nearly dry composition. They carried this mixture to the job site in baskets and poured it over a prepared layer of rock pieces. They then tamped the mortar into the rock layer. The tamping packed the mortar, reduced the need for excess water, but, at the same time, stimulated bonding... Eventually, work began on the concrete dome, constructed in tapering courses or steps that are thickest at the base (20 feet) and thinnest at the oculus (7.5 feet). The Romans used the heaviest aggregate, mostly basalt, at the bottom and lighter materials, such as pumice, at the top. They embedded empty clay jugs into the dome’s upper courses to further lighten the structure and facilitate the concrete’s curing.”
I ham really disappointed you would pen such a joke.
Didn’t Cheops cross the river Styx after a trip to old China?
Hawass cannot account for the big er..... in the desert either.
“I think they used cranes. Really. I think if we could go back in time and see them doing it, we’d all slap our heads and say “well duh!”
Maybe that’s why they revered the ibis, a form of crane. Although I don’t know if they could train them to do the work, even in flocks.
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Lexxtex -- the Hidden Secret of the Great Pyramid's Construction Uncovered
The Great Pyramid Mystery Solved - National Geographic
Khufu Reborn - Dassault Systemes
Cutaway view of Jean-Pierre Houdin's "Noble Circuit" chambers and corridors, plausible but yet to be proven. The cutaway also shows the spiral ramp in cross-section in two places.
Khufu's Secret Rooms
Jean-Pierre Houdin
[snip] In March 2002, my father and I met the Cultural Counsellor at the Egyptian Embassy in Paris, Pr Hany Helal. He was, a geological engineer who had graduated from the École nationale supérieure des mines de Nancy (France) and immediately offered to help us. So, my first major lecture took place the following September 25 at the Egyptian Cultural Center in Paris. As a consequence, the theory began to spread to the Egyptian “clique” and I had the opportunity to meet several renowned French Egyptologists whose reactions were rather positive. Unfortunately, the response was not always so positive as there were and are many theories on the construction of the Great Pyramid. Shortly after being rejected by one eminent Egyptologist I felt many I had already met were backpedaling. One of them even confessed to me that an “unavoidable” Egyptologist had “forbidden” his colleagues to have contact with me. (A few years later, a student in Egyptology at the Sorbonne in Paris told me that it was forbidden to pronounce my name in that prestigious university). [/snip]
https://sharonjanethague.com/interview-with-jean-pierre-houdin/
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