One Entrance, Two Paths: The Noble and Service Routes in the Great Pyramid
Posted on 12/14/2017 7:38:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv
(Everyone has to pee)
Oh, I'm still on board with Davidovits' geopolymer model (oddly enough, also French), and of course it has the virtue of being 100% compatible with internal ramps, ladders, shadoufs, prehistoric helicopters, or any other ideas put forth to date regarding techniques used. :^) One of the problems all of the quarried stones models has is the massive need for quarried stones early on. There's the water floatation hypothesis that is particularly impacted by this (not to mention that it is inherently untenable). By the time the halfway point in height is reached, about 89% of the mass has been installed, thus the second half takes about 3 years to complete, that's when the internal ramp would really take off, and poured synthetic stones would really make the work fly, particularly near the top when there's no way to deliver blocks through any kind of ramp. I suspect the use of scaffolding is part of Jean-Pierre Houdin's model, but if so I'm not aware of it. It would also mean the ramp exit must be fairly easy to find near the summit.
And shoveling their, uh, recycled food for 50 camels would be a big job. Not sure there’s an economic payoff for the man who just sold his friend into Islamic bondage.
Here’s a quintessential anecdote about Zahi “Zowie” Hawass:
French Egyptologists Defend Pyramid Theory
My Way News | 9/4/04 | PAUL GARWOOD/AP
Posted on 09/04/2004 10:50:57 AM PDT by wagglebee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1207403/posts
Conference: building the pyramids of Egypt with artificial stones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0nOw_ebmGk
This does it for me. I keep reading more and more articles which debunk the theory of carved and dressed stones as buildin blocks for the pyramids.
No reason to dispute this theory. It answers all the questions that rule out the previous theories.
And as far as the lost technology of cement, we have ample evidence that it can happen. The Romans are acknowledged to have used cememnt extensively in their building projects—bit the technology was lost again until the rediscovery in the 1800s with Portland cement.
The use of the counterpoise mechanism called the shadoof would enable the builders to lift agglomerate from one level to another with very little manpower—and they were using this mechanism for lifting water from the Nile already.
Roman concrete was different, and the exact method is still under discussion, but it differed from the various Egyptian methods and materials — however, all are/were analogous to each other.
The use of the shadoof is generally found in pyramid-building hypotheses, including that of Jean-Pierre Houdin.
Don't know about Jerry Rivera, but I have been there, in the King's Chamber, the geometric center of the Great Pyramid. What an experience! One to die for (but not now, now is not the time to go to Egypt) - I was there in 1984.
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