I think it is high time that the
Great Pyramid was simply dismantled block by block with modern cranes and moved
to a layup field. The disassembly would
answer all questions except perhaps the fine detail of original
construction. I present a detailed
method of construction in my unpublished manuscript that could be so used to
build it using Bronze Age Technology in the available twenty years and on
budget. Thus is see no mysteries been
advanced or solved by not doing this.
Once done we can then re
construct the pyramid as it was originally laid out including the making of
fresh facing stones so that we see the pyramid as originally designed. The grounds them selves can be turned into a
combination museum and hospitality venue and the overall complex can become a
world cultural center drawing huge revenues that would ultimately recoup the
investment.
I think that the job can be done
in ten years or less using several cranes and plenty of rail and truck movement. Thousands would be employed preparing
replacement stones and the like. In this
way the destruction wrought by the removal of the facing stones a few centuries
ago for the building of Cairo
can be undone. It would be worthy for
Islam to make this a great cultural Jihad to restore the damage done.
I suspect that it will take
decades to pay it off, yet the site will then be a money earner for at least
another five thousand years. Few
investments can make that claim.
Great Pyramid has two secret chambers: French architect
January 27, 2011
A tourist walks in front the Great Pyramid of Khafre in Giza in 2010. A French
architect campaigning for a new exploration of the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid
of Giza said on
Thursday that the edifice may contain two chambers housing funereal furniture.
A French architect campaigning for a new exploration of the
4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza
said on Thursday that the edifice may contain two chambers housing funereal
furniture.
Jean-Pierre Houdin -- who was rebuffed three years ago by Egypt in his
appeal for a probe into how the Pyramid was built -- said 3-D simulation and
data from a US egyptologist, Bob Brier, pointed to two secret chambers in the
heart of the structure.
The rooms would have housed furniture for use in the afterlife by
the pharaohKhufu, also
known as Cheops in Greek, he told a press conference.
"I am convinced there are antechambers in this pyramid. What I
want is to find them," he said.
In March 2007, Houdin advanced the theory that the Great Pyramid had
been built inside-out using an internal spiral ramp, as opposed to an external
ramp as had long been suggested.
He proposed mounting a joint expedition of Egyptian antiquities experts
and French engineers, using infrared, radar and other non-invasive methods to
check out the hypothesis.
The idea was nixed by Egypt 's
antiquities department. A Canadian team from Laval
University in Quebec will seek permission this year to
carry out thermal
imaging from outside the Pyramid to explore the theory, Houdin said.
Houdin said a pointer to the antechambers came from the existence of
such rooms in the pyramid of Snefru, Khufu's father. It was possible a similar
design was retained for the Great Pyramid.
In addition, blocks in the northern wall of the king's chamber in the
Great Pyramid indicate an overlooked passage which led to the hypothesised
chambers and also enabled the funeral party to exit, he added.
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