New scans of King Tut's tomb may reveal hidden chamber [...again...]

Industrial accidents... in the 20th c, a large stone, perhaps at Avebury, was winched back up onto its base, and where it had lain were the remains of a 15th century (based on coins in a coin purse) man, possibly the guy supervising the removal of stones, who’d been crushed to death when the stone went over.

Most of the megalithic sites have been plundered for stone, just as classical buildings were, just as ancient Egyptians plundered slightly more ancient Egyptian structures, etc. Roman emperors issued a series of laws to try to defeat the practice of nightly dismantling of underutilized public buildings (down-at-the-heels temples and whatnot), which were being used as quarries for ready building materials. :’)

The crown of the Khafre pyramid retains its original casing stones.

The Sphinx drawing showing underground passages was, as I said, imaginary. There is a void under the left paw; when standing face to face with the Sphinx the viewer has the right paw on his or her left, and the left paw on his or her right. :’) That feature was found during those sonic studies done by the Schoch-West team.

http://www.robertschoch.com/images/sphinx/chamber.jpg

The odd stone box near the Sphinx’ right foreleg is known to be hollow, but that’s probably just one of those things, and it’s never been opened. Probably New Kingdom in date, and probably nothing inside it. Repairs to the Sphinx, and alterations to it, began during the 4th dynasty, and antedate Khafre; at least one conventional Egyptologist regards the Sphinx as a project of Khufu’s, but it’s clearly older than that.

There's a water table that rises and falls with the Nile level. That symbolic 'tomb of Osiris' discovered and excavated about ten years ago has to be keep pumped out, for example. And one of the supposed Old Kingdom temples usually has water standing.

Learnt something new. I thought the Osireion WAS the original Tomb of Osiris since it appears to me of the megalithic age predating the Predynastic and/or Protodynastic to the more "modern" Dynastic age of Egypt.

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