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Great Pyramid May Hold Two Hidden Chambers
Discovery News ^ | Thursday, January 27, 2011 | Content provided by AFP

Posted on 02/02/2011 4:58:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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 U.S. 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 pharaoh Khufu, 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: bobbrier; cheops; egypt; geopolymer; geopolymerization; geopolymers; giza; godsgravesglyphs; grandgallery; greatpyramid; internalramp; jeanpierrehoudin; josephdavidovits; khufu; muography; muon; muons; muontomography; pyramid; pyramids; scanpyramids; sphinx; zahihawass
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To: SunkenCiv
They used tens of thousands of little wicker baskets to bury it as they built. Thus, they always had a gentle slope, and were always working at “ground level”.

When they finished, they used those same baskets and tens of thousands of whisk brooms to clear away the sand back down to grade.

And that is why there is so much sand piled up in the desert today!

21 posted on 02/02/2011 6:08:33 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Global Warmists "drive" people away from the dinner table with corn ethanol)
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To: SunkenCiv
I suspect Zawi isn't going to let this guy investigate “his” pyramid.
22 posted on 02/02/2011 6:11:30 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: bushpilot1

No doubt they’d find B.H.O.’s original birth certificate in one of them chambers.


23 posted on 02/02/2011 6:11:30 PM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: Textide
Hopefully the new Egyptian government will change that for the better.

Don't we wish, but Zahi Hawass has now been levitated to a new cabinet level post for antiquities.

I hope they make hats in his new size.

24 posted on 02/02/2011 6:13:07 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Global Warmists "drive" people away from the dinner table with corn ethanol)
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To: Textide
"Hopefully the new Egyptian government will change that for the better."

What makes anyone believe change in Egypt will be anything other then an Islamic theocracy?

Which of course the pyramids will be blown up under a theocracy.

25 posted on 02/02/2011 6:24:27 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: wildbill; wendy1946; SunkenCiv; ApplegateRanch
those blocks were almost certainly poured.

one coprolite

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Maybe they were EXTRUDED!!!

26 posted on 02/02/2011 6:32:22 PM PST by bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
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To: bmwcyle
"The Hall of Records of the Pre-flood era? "

No, no, no. That's under the Sphinx.

27 posted on 02/02/2011 6:36:49 PM PST by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: bigheadfred

In 100,000 years people will marvel that the entire outside of the Great Pyramid was fused into a glaze and wonder how it was done...


28 posted on 02/02/2011 6:39:58 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 743 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: null and void

And they’ll prolly never know.

By then they should have figgered out how to place a consciousness into a machene and the phrase “Sh** Happens” will have no context.


29 posted on 02/02/2011 6:59:19 PM PST by bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
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To: bushpilot1

The unannounced test of my gag reflex worked.


30 posted on 02/02/2011 7:11:51 PM PST by mcshot (So this is how it feels to be flushed. The "that's impossible" days are upon us.)
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To: bigheadfred

The idea was to have a quarry where stone was broken into reasonable sizes, nothing much bigger than a volleyball more or less, hauled to the build site in wagons by elephants or whatever, dumped into formers, and then whatever mortar they were using poured into the formers to fill out the space. That’s how they got the unreal tight fits. I mean if you think about it, trying to carve blocks at the quarry would waste 2/3 of the material if it could be done at all which is doubtful. That would be if you only needed five or ten such stones; no way in hell is anybody going to produce millions of perfectly carved stones that way.


31 posted on 02/02/2011 7:18:36 PM PST by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946

So do you think the Great Pyramids are older than the mainstream says they are?


32 posted on 02/02/2011 7:29:29 PM PST by bigheadfred (THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN)
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To: SunkenCiv
When the radicals take over, they will probably destroy the pyramids like they did the giant stone Buddha statues in Afghanistan.
33 posted on 02/02/2011 7:48:00 PM PST by A. Patriot (CZ 52's ROCK)
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To: All

Stargate anyone?


34 posted on 02/02/2011 7:53:34 PM PST by ak267
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To: A. Patriot

The third major pyramid (small by Giza standards, but still large) was going to be torn down by a caliph during the Middle Ages, and the scar from that attempt still shows, but after months of work, he went out to take a look, saw how little damage had been done so far, and gave up. His goal was to rip down all three of ‘em.

The Abu Roash pyramid of Khufu’s son and successor, Djedjedfre, a few miles north of Giza, was constructed to some point during his shortened reign, but during recent centuries it’s known to have become a quarry of sorts for Muzzie projects in Cairo.


35 posted on 02/02/2011 7:59:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: UCANSEE2

My pleasure.


36 posted on 02/02/2011 8:02:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

In the 1980s a French team used I forget what to look for unknown chambers and whatnot. Their detector found a probable void right near the entrance to the King’s Chamber, on the left as one is going up. The blocks there don’t overlap (as bricklaying as well as stone masonry is generally laid) and it looks for all the world like they were slid in to fill the previous opening. The Gyppoes gave permission for a test hole. The stone was drilled through, and a sand-filled chamber of some sort was found. It wasn’t opened though. Never will be, probably.

The same detector spotted Houdin’s internal spiral ramp as well, but didn’t put it in their publications because it didn’t make sense at the time.


37 posted on 02/02/2011 8:06:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: wendy1946

I wholeheartedly agree. And the interesting thing is, it answers most of the construction mysteries, and is completely compatible with explanations for the others. :’)


38 posted on 02/02/2011 8:07:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: wildbill

Pharaohs checked in, but they didn’t check out.


39 posted on 02/02/2011 8:13:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: arrogantsob

Upon what evidence do you base this assertion?


40 posted on 02/02/2011 8:53:06 PM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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