[JoeGar]

For really wild theories, read "The Giza Power Plant". After reading it, I came away convinced the Great Pyramid was never a tomb.

[scott7278]

Bookmarked.

[Larry Lucido]

French Egyptologists Defend Pyramid Theory

Amway has made it to Egypt?

[Richard Axtell]

The German led investigations, using a remote controled robot camera, inside previously unexplored air-ducts that connect to the "Kings Chanber", were interesting, but did not lead to any great discoveries. Hawass either was embarrassed by that let down, or sees a potential flood of similar requests if he grants this one. I wish he would, though. Much could be learned with very little destruction, using a fiber-optic video system to explore this new "room".

Hawass won't last as long as the Pyramids, so the French and others need only be patient, and get their grant money ready for the Egyptian Antiquties Bureau.

[farmfriend]

Standing in their way is Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, who heatedly rejected the theories during a Cairo press conference this week.

No doubt. That man worships those structures.

[ridesthemiles]

How far did the Media have to search to find SOMETHING the French wanted to defend?

[Psycho_Bunny]

KNEEL BEFORE APOPHIS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RightWhale]

Nuke the Great Pyramid. Leave a symmetrical crater 200 feet deep.

[Gunrunner2]

They just have to spread around more bac-sheesh (phonetic).

They probably haven't bribed the right guy or bribed him enough.

You can get anything you want in Cairo. . .with enough bucks spread around.

Bribery is a way of life over there, EVERY level of government and military corrupt. . .to include "scientists."

Sad.

[steveo]

French Egyptologists Defend Pyramid Theory

Oh la la! Zey are very large at the bottom and pointy on ze top!

[DJ MacWoW]

Stargate ping? :-)

[Lester Moore]

A video for the engineer in your life that has everything. And I got to tell you, I think this guy is onto something.

http://theforgottentechnology.com/Page1.htm

[Old Professer]

The damned things were the earliest landfills, that's why the lower layers have no access.

[Lockbar]

French theory on Pyramids: They were actually giant symbols of surrender.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, I'll ping everyone when I'm home again.

related topic:

Uncovering The Secrets Of The Great Pyramid
IOL ^ | 8-29-2004 | Annick Benoist
Posted on 08/29/2004 8:46:23 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202336/posts

[SunkenCiv]

The late Luis Alvarez (most familiar due to the Alvarez model for impact-induced mass extinctions) conducted a cosmic ray detection experiment in the Khafre pyramid at Giza. A weird result he got led him a little astray at first, but eventually he figured out what was happening. He concluded that Khafre has no unknown chambers, at least as far as cosmic ray detection can find, and suggested the use of radar to make a quicker and more accurate study. I think the details can be found in that old Peter Tompkins book, but I dunno for sure. There's very little about this in Google.

Secrets of the Great Pyramid by Peter Tompkins with Livio Catullo Stecchini

didn't realize the late Livio Stecchini contributed to the volume (probably the foreword?).

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[SunkenCiv]

The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved by Joseph Davidovits first edition website

[SunkenCiv]

Hawass: "I will not let Egyptian blood be damaged by amateurs."

Nope, he insists on doing all the damage himself. ;')

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks wagglebee & farmfriend.

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[FairOpinion]

Related article:

2,500-Year-Old Hidden Tomb Found in Egypt
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1206236/posts

Egypt's antiquities chief on Thursday revealed a 2,500-year-old hidden tomb under the shadow of one of Giza's three giant pyramids, containing 400 pinkie-finger-sized statues and six coffin-sized niches carved into granite rock.

Zahi Hawass, the director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said archaeologists had been working for three months to clear sand from a granite shaft found between the pyramid of Khafre — also known by its Greek name of Chephren — Giza's second-largest tomb of a pharaoh, and the Sphinx.

Under blaring sun Thursday, Hawass said Giza's latest ancient discovery came to light after archaeologists detected what appeared to be a four-sided shaft. The antiquities chief verified it by climbing a pyramid to get a bird's eye look.