OTOH, the unfinished chamber in the bedrock under the Great Pyramid doesn’t appear to ever get wet.
There’s a robber’s hole that was dug into the length of the Sphinx, possibly ancient, possibly medieval muzzie. One branch works its way up into the head, the other one dead-ends somewhere near or under its ‘base’. No water.
Campbell’s Tomb is right behind the Sphinx — pit tomb, deep, no water.
There’s some imaginary tunnels and such in these diagrams:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2806721/posts
The 4th dynasty chewed a bunch of catacombs down into the plateau, and at one time those were used for tombs for fammily members and public officials. There’s a nice wall painting/bas relief of one of Khufu’s granddaughters, and one of the mummies that was left partially burned by ancient graverobbers. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were water down in the deepest spots.
Well that was an interesting plan drawing of the Sphinx but who drew it? Is it just imaginary?
The find of the unassembled boat can certainly leave one to think that there are other goodies awaiting discovery at the site.
You know, the bases for the pyramids needed to be flat so I would think so I had the idea of building a dyke around the planned area, fill it with water and then have my guys hack down everything that sticks out. Keep lowering the water till you get it down level.
Has anyone ever scoured the region for casing stones that were not broken up for other buildings? I have thought the same about Stonehenge; maybe there are some in the Salisbury Plain area intact. Could be some casing stones under the sand that did not make it into Cairo.
There must have been a lot of “industrial accidents” whilst removing those big heavy objects down those steep sloping sides unless they just prised them loose up high and let them slide and tumble to the ground.