Posted on 01/18/2014 11:21:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Peter James believes ancient Egyptians formed the huge tombs by piling up rubble and small rocks on the inside and attaching the large bricks on the outside later rather than using giant blocks carried up ramps.
There's much debate over how the pyramids were buil AN engineer dubbed Indiana James has stunned archaeologists by rubbishing their theories on how the pyramids were built.
Peter James believes ancient Egyptians formed the huge tombs by piling up rubble and small rocks on the inside and attaching the large bricks on the outside later.
His claim challenges hundreds of years of accepted belief that the pyramids were built with giant blocks carried up huge ramps.
The structural engineer, who has spent the past 20 years studying the pyramids, reckons that would be impossible.
He explained: “Under the current theories, to lay the two million stone blocks required the Egyptians would have to have laid a large block once every three minutes on long ramps.
“The pyramids are also so tall that the ramps for the stones would have had to have been at least a quarter of a mile long.
“If that happened, there would still be signs that the ramps had been there, and there aren’t any.”
Peter, who has been an engineer for 54 years, admitted his theory would be controversial.
He said: “I’m going to have a war with archaeologists.
“They will say, ‘How would you know? You’re not an archaeologist.’
“But if you wanted a house built, would you use me or an archaeologist?
“They have never had the engineering experience.”
Peter and his team at Cintec International, based in south Wales, are world leaders in restoring ancient structures and have worked deep inside two pyramids to stop them from collapsing.
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Maybe the pyramids are millions of years older than previously believed. < /sarc >
There are no bricks in the three great Giza pyramids.
The usual figure — about 2.5 million blocks — was disputed by someone who’d actually taken his time and measured and counted the numbers of visible blocks and number and thickness of the layers, and came up with a figure over 5 million (published in KMT).
Both figures were disputed by Zahi “Zowie” Hawass, who claimed 2.5 was wildly inflated and the number was something more like 500,000, and the average weight about one quarter of the generally accepted figure.
Jean-Pierre Houdin (see the keywords in this topic), an architect, figures that the very necessary ramp used in construction is still there, and internal to the Great Pyramid. I wonder if he’s ever looked at Khafre, the second largest at Giza?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpR7AKKN87E&list=PL9A112AC9F9727C8A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4O5LOCI68
There’s another pretty good theory as well: that the ramps were internal. Probably the most convincing one I’ve heard so far.
Heh, yeah, weird coincidence that they just happened to pick areas to dig where there was nothing but solid blocks.
Here’s some goofy stuff:
“But if you wanted a house built, would you use me or an archaeologist?
LOL. Touché.
The Omni article probably was about Davidovits, I wonder if it was in the Antimatter? I believe those are archived online.
In the 1980s, a French team (a different one :’) was given permission to investigate a void they found with very sensitive seismic equipment, by drilling through the wall. The found a sand-filled chamber, but that’s all they were allowed to do.
See the keywords for more about that, “bobbrier” or “jeanpierrehoudin”, or even the links I posted, uh, below your post and above this one somewhere.
“The Egyptians didn’t build them. Obama did.”
Or the Thetans. :-)
If I were building a house, I wouldn’t be building a pyramid. :’)
Hey, it’s not so much that he didn’t study the problems, it’s that he didn’t offer any actual explanations.
Tel me somethin’ good [wa wa] tel me tel me tel me...
thanks PB!
http://geopolymerhouses.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/earthbag-building-may-be-thousands-of-years-old/
Remains of giant pyramid builder found in rubble
The rolling idea is interesting, however, it wouldn’t help the construction bottlenecks, in fact, might make them worse.
I was sure there was an FR topic about it, found nothin’, may try again, but in the meantime, here’s an image search to help those who don’t know what we’re talking about. :’)
https://www.google.com/search?q=rolling+pyramid+blocks&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch
Three minutes? Obviously a shovel ready project.
So how did they “attach” the blocks to the rubble? They still had to raise them.
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That is what I am wondering....
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