Great Pyramid May Hold Two Hidden Chambers

Discovery News ^ | Thursday, January 27, 2011 | Content provided by AFP

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

• Update: Return to the Great Pyramid [ Bob Brier & Jean-Pierre Houdin ]

  07/14/2009 4:59:29 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 46 replies · 2,315+ views

  Archaeology · Volume 62 Number 4, July/August 2009 · Bob Brier

  All of the current theories -- a long, straight ramp, a ramp that corkscrewed around the outside of the pyramid, or cranelike shadoufs (used in Egypt until recently for irrigating fields) -- have serious flaws... architect Jean-Pierre Houdin and I presented a radical new theory: that blocks of stone were raised to the very top of the pyramid on an internal ramp. We gave what we felt was strong evidence for the theory, which explains a French team's microgravemetric survey in the 1980s that recorded variations in the density of the pyramid... an image from the survey may show a...

• Egyptologists use high-tech software to analyze construction of Great Pyramid

  10/21/2008 6:14:48 AM PDT · by Mike Fieschko · 16 replies · 1,884+ views

  physorg.com · October 21, 2008 · Sumathi Reddy and Nia-Malika Henderson

  Using cutting edge technology, Egyptologist Bob Brier of the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University delved into the only standing wonder of the ancient world, the Great Pyramid, and uncovered the mystery behind cracks in the massive Egyptian structure, unearthing a new room along the way. Brier, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin and a team of software specialists from Dassault Systems in Paris used 3-D modeling software to determine that the burial chamber's stone support beams cracked as final construction of the Giza wonder was near completion 4,500 years ago. The team discovered that the cracks occurred when three...

• Architect Says Pyramid Built Inside Out

  03/31/2007 9:48:03 AM PDT · by Clintonfatigued · 37 replies · 836+ views

  AOL News · March 31, 2007 · Tim Hepher

  A French architect said on Friday he had cracked a 4,500-year-old mystery surrounding Egypt's Great Pyramid, saying it was built from the inside out. Previous theories have suggested Pharaoh Khufu's tomb, the last surviving example of the seven great wonders of antiquity, was built using either a vast frontal ramp or a ramp in a corkscrew shape around the exterior to haul up the stonework. But flouting previous wisdom, Jean-Pierre Houdin said advanced 3D technology had shown the main ramp which was used to haul the massive stones to the apex was contained 10-15 meters beneath the outer skin, tracing...

• Architect claims to solve pyramid secret

  03/30/2007 4:57:51 PM PDT · by Man50D · 52 replies · 1,094+ views

  Yahoo News · March 30, 2007 · LAURENCE JOAN-GRANGE

  PARIS - A French architect claimed Friday to have uncovered the mystery about how Egypt's Great Pyramid of Khufu was built -- with use of a spiral ramp to hoist huge stone blocks into place. The construction of the Great Pyramid 4,500 years ago by Khufu, a ruler also known as Cheops, has long befuddled scientists as to how its 3 million stone blocks weighing 2.5 tons each were lifted into place. Ending eight years of study on the subject, architect Jean-Pierre Houdin released his findings and a computerized 3-D mockup showing how workers would have erected the pyramid at...

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[Defend Liberty]

Big deal. So does Congress.

[SunkenCiv]

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The Secret of the Great Pyramid: How One Man's Obsession Led to the Solution of Ancient Egypt's Greatest Mystery by Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin Kindle Edition Paperback

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This is archaeologically frustrating to me. These are about the biggest manmade things on the planet, they’re thousands of years old, there’s nothing around them, there’s a whole bunch of historical writings about them, yet... we haven’t explored them fully.

Hopefully the new Egyptian government will change that for the better.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[Tea Party Reveler]

Is this like Geraldo Rivera’s “Lost vaults of Al Capone”?

[Vendome]

Take some dynamite and find out! /S

[SunkenCiv]

They’ve been crawled all over, like picnic food by ants, but non-invasive techniques (as were used by Luis Alvarez in the Khafre pyramid about fifty years ago) have seldom been tried. And foreign scholars and scientists insufficiently obsequious get the heave-ho. Frankly, I’d prefer the whole place were suddenly depopulated and studied unfettered and in depth. But I’m just a little crazy. ;’)

[ViLaLuz]

If they ever open them they’ll find Rahm Emanuel’s furniture.

[Darksheare]

Well, they did find bits of green diorite in the construction till leftover from building it, and when that one nut many years ago drilled into the pyramid he found a rough sphere of black diorite.
But as far as I know they haven’t found green diorite inside the pyramid.
May just mean that it was picked clean, but it could also mean that the side rooms are still there, filled with dust and sealed.
And Zahi Hawass is about as likely to allow noninvasive scans [or any scans] as Zero is to allow his records to be released.

[bushpilot1]

[UCANSEE2]

Thank you for posting this article.

[Dryman]

Zami hamass will put an end to any further research.

[bicyclerepair]

God 0bama is a pos.

[wendy1946]

The “secret” of the pyramids, particularly the larger ones, is that those blocks were almost certainly poured.

[arrogantsob]

Since there is no real evidence that this was ever a tomb or was ever intended to be a tomb, I doubt that any tomb furniture will be found.

[wildbill]

Every large building has to have a broom closet or two and maybe an indoor toilet if ya gotta go.

Hasn’t anyone ever noticed that not one coprolite has ever been found in a pyramid?

[SonOfDarkSkies]

What’s the scuttlebutt on why non-invasive technologies weren’t approved for analysis? Do you suppose they weren’t adequately understood...or were those using them deemed untrustworthy (i.e. that they might surreptitiously use an invasive technique as part of the analysis)?

[bmwcyle]

The Hall of Records of the Pre-flood era?