The mystery of the pyramid is: why is it placed on the dollar bill?
Jesus's tomb
Please. Everybody knows the thing is there to sharpen razor blades.
That Shaft is a baaad mutha...
Just another pyramid scheme.
Um, not to be inconvenient, but how could the shafts point to a particular star if the stars rise and set along with the sun, and rotate through the heavens with the seasons? A given shaft would only point to its sacred star for a brief moment every now and then.
The timing of that might be the important thing, as it is with Stonehenge.
I have always questioned why the Egyptians Mayans and other ancient cultures built huge stone structures in the first place. Was it because they new the earth was going to get hot as He*l from global positioning and these were shelters for the royalty to continue living on. The shafts were only good for air getting into the chambers.
My theory:
If you've ever been in the depths of a pyramid, then you'd know how bad the air can get. I think the workers in the chambers would have needed air and the small shafts acted as airvents, using the venturi effect, until they were no longer needed. When the work was completed, the architects had built in a mechanism which allowed the so-called "door" or 'blocking stone" to crash down into the shaft from above, sealing off the shaft.
"mortar and covered in salt crystals"
Perhaps this is the equivalent of using silica gel to absorb moisture.
After the burial, the little door at the inside opening was kept open by something propped underneath it and attached to a rope. Cloth wrapped bundles of salt were pushed up into the shaft and it was sealed at the outside opening. Since it was open at the tomb end of the shaft, the salt and cloth absorbed whatever moisture was left in the tomb.
After suffient time had passed and the priests felt that enough moisture had been removed from the inner chamber, they opened the outside opening, pulled the rope holding the prop from under the door at the tomb side of the shaft, effectively sealing the tomb. They then pulled out the cloth bundles filled with salt and sealed the outside opening. They needed the morter surface so it would be smooth and allow the cloth to be easily pulled, and to seal out any additional moisture from leaking in. The salt crystals were from any salt left behind, or salt which precipitated on the surface during the operation.
The alternative and Occam approved version would be that the the salt was just in the mortar and the crystals formed to the surface, like niter on old brick walls.
As explained in the book, The Giza Power Plant, the Great Pyramid was a large chemical reactor. Chemicals were poured down its shafts into a central chamber where the reaction took place.
The shafts are not straight enough that a star or anything can be sighted through them.
The Great Pyramid is a Muslim holy site! It must be converted into a mosque!
Just wait and see!(sarcasm)
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The pharaohs spent most of their reigns getting stoned.
Meteorites From Under The Pyramids
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Maybe the shafts had an alignment function during construction...
I wonder if Bauval, being an engineer, ever considered the shafts as 'stress relief veins' for the aging stone structure?
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