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11-18-2008, 10:02 PM
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Great Pyramid Mystery to be Solved by Hidden Room?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...amid-room.html
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Great Pyramid Mystery to Be Solved by Hidden Room?
Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News
November 14, 2008
ON TV Unlocking the Great Pyramid airs Sunday, November 23, at 7 p.m. ET on the National Geographic Channel. Details >> A sealed space in Egypt's Great Pyramid may help solve a centuries-old mystery: How did the ancient Egyptians move two million 2.5-ton blocks to build the ancient wonder?

The little-known cavity may support the theory that the 4,500-year-old monument to Pharaoh Khufu was constructed inside out, via a spiraling, inclined interior tunnel—an idea that contradicts the prevailing wisdom that the monuments were built using an external ramp.
The inside-out theory's key proponent, French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin, says for centuries Egyptologists have ignored evidence staring them in the face.
"The paradigm was wrong," Houdin said. "The idea that the pyramids were built from the outside was just wrong. How can you resolve a problem when the first element you introduce in your thinking is wrong?"
(Related: "Great Pyramid Built Inside Out, French Architect Says" [April 2, 2007].)
Theories Abound
Even the most widely held Great Pyramid construction theories have flaws, Egyptologist Bob Brier said.
For example, a single, straight external ramp would have been impractical, said Brier, of Long Island University in New York.
To deliver blocks to the 481-foot (147-meter) peak at a reasonable grade, the ramp would have had to have been a mile (1.6 kilometers) long and made of stone. And over the decades of the pyramid's construction, workers would have had to continually increase the ramp's height and length as the pyramid rose.
Video Clip From Unlocking the Great Pyramid Documentary
"That's like building two pyramids. And we've never found the remains of such a ramp," Brier said.
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11-27-2008, 11:28 PM
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Re: Great Pyramid Mystery to be Solved by Hidden Room?
Great find Laura. Keep up such finds. This is great stuff. I knew there had to be some easier way to get those things done. It sure does relieve a lot in my mind as to how "we" can create such extraordinary feats. Weren't pyramids made as an offering or praise to the pharaohs of the time? Funny how they turn out to be such marvels and enigmas for people in the future. Even though it seems like one big magic trick, it is the power of clever design that can accomplish such a larger and more powerful accomplishment!
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01-20-2009, 05:37 PM
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Re: Great Pyramid Mystery to be Solved by Hidden Room?
Sounds like it would be much easier to build the pyramids inside out.
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02-23-2009, 10:34 PM
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Re: Great Pyramid Mystery to be Solved by Hidden Room?
ill still stick with the egyptians didnt build em but just used em....
theres too much things in those piles of stones that even 21st century high tech machinery cant do.
not to speak about the sphinx...theres "facts" telling its been build around 16k BC.
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05-08-2009, 11:32 AM
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Re: Great Pyramid Mystery to be Solved by Hidden Room?
There is a train of thought that the Great Pyramid was not a burial pyramid and the name of Pharaoh Khufu above one of the chambers was actually added by an archaeologist trying to "prove" his theories. I do not remember why Khufu's name above the "King's Chamber" is weird. Anyone have any good websites on the subject?
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05-28-2009, 11:24 PM
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Re: Great Pyramid Mystery to be Solved by Hidden Room?
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Originally Posted by SeekingAnswers
There is a train of thought that the Great Pyramid was not a burial pyramid and the name of Pharaoh Khufu above one of the chambers was actually added by an archaeologist trying to "prove" his theories. I do not remember why Khufu's name above the "King's Chamber" is weird. Anyone have any good websites on the subject?
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It appears to originate along the same line of thought that the Pyramids date much earlier than originally thought.
In Sitchin’s “The Stairway to Heaven”, published in 1980, the chapter entitled “Forging The Pharaoh's Name” argues that Colonel Richard Howard Vyse did not discover, but forged a cartouche containing the name of Pharaoh Khufu inside the Great Pyramid, in one of the relieving chambers above the King’s Chamber. Vyse was credited with this groundbreaking discovery that placed his name in the annals of Egyptology in his book “Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837”. These relieving chambers were never meant to be entered and had in fact been sealed at the time of the pyramid’s construction. Hence, they dated back to the time the pyramids were built. The discovery of Khufu’s name inside thus provided definitive evidence this Pharaoh was responsible for the Great Pyramid.
For someone, like Sitchin, who believes that the pyramids are far older than the Fourth Dynasty (ca. 2400 BC) and constructed by alien overlords, the cartouche thus posed evidentiary problems for their theories. And whereas some chose to ignore the problem, Sitchin argued that the cartouche was a fraud. Indeed, Sitchin said that it had not been seen by previous visitors to the relieving chamber in question. How could they have missed what Vyse so easily found? Furthermore, Sitchin writes: “Wasn’t it odd, I thought, that for centuries no markings of any kind were found by anyone, anywhere, in the pyramid, not even in Davison’s Chamber above the King’s Chamber – and only Vyse found such markings where only he first entered?” LINK
Although its probably more likely that the original archeologist was simply trying to score a name for himself and some backing from his financial investors.
I personally think the pyramids were built to keep the idle masses employed. Kind of like what we do now.
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07-12-2009, 07:17 AM
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Re: Great Pyramid Mystery to be Solved by Hidden Room?
to Laura - Great Pyramid Mystery to Be Solved by Hidden Room?; so site Space Odysey planet the Earth - does not allow to receive the answer for what purpose pyramids were under construction, but has allowed to receive the answer: when these pyramids were under construction and under what circumstances - pyramids on continents, cоnstruction such as Stonehenge were under construction when the planet the Earth was in System of planets this System flew by by Solar system, (more details on site) on a planet the Earth in this System force of an attraction was much less and consequently this factor when the Earth appeared in Solar system and force of an attraction homo sapiens has sharply changed - do not take into account; thus conditions of construction of high-altitude object on the Earth or on the Moon are very various
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