Ancient Egypt 39,000 BCE by Edward F. Malkowski

Author:Edward F. Malkowski [Malkowski, Edward F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781591439790
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Company
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE GREAT PYRAMID’S INTERNAL DESIGN

With its bizarre configuration of internal chambers, passageways, and shafts, the Great Pyramid’s internal design is perhaps the biggest ancient mystery to be solved. Egyptologist John Romer, in considering the Great Pyramid’s design, says it is

an alien thing, so foreign that some of our most basic modern points of reference—the theoretical point, for example, where the pyramid’s central axis bisects its baseline—are but abstractions in themselves. . . . From the very beginning of the work, therefore, the pyramid-makers had need of much of the information that a modern building plan provides: a plan that described the harmonics of the Pyramid’s interior architecture and linked them to the Pyramid’s exterior; to its height and width, to the level of its baselines and the position of its central axis. A subtle plan as well, that set a maze of mathematics behind the Pyramid’s smooth exterior.1

Other Egyptologists seem to agree, such as Bob Briar, who stated in an interview, “If we didn’t know that they actually built the pyramids, if we didn’t have the pyramids there on the Giza Plateau, I think we would say they couldn’t have done it.”2

There is little reason to suspect that so much work was devoted to the creation of three separate chambers—one of which was built with granite—for the sole purpose of entombing the king. On this point the German engineer Rudolph Gantenbrink, whose robot crawled up the Queen’s Chamber shafts, agrees, adding, “It is also clear that they did not embark on a reckless building spree but that the structure was already carefully planned before work commenced, with the consistent application of expertise that was still relatively simple for the period.” According to Gantenbrink, the pyramid builders worked from a plan, in the form of a grid, which was created in a scale of 1:40.3

It is in the careful examination of the Great Pyramid’s interior design that the tomb theory is exposed for what it is: an outdated theory based on ancient hearsay, and a very poorly assembled theory at that, contrived and completely unscientific. How the strange arrangement of the Great Pyramid’s internal chambers and shafts is rationalized as being a tomb complex is even less credible than tomb theory itself.

According to tomb theory, when the pyramid was being constructed, the king’s burial chamber was originally the subterranean chamber that was cut into the bedrock below the pyramid. However, as construction progressed, the king or his architect decided that it should be moved to another location midway within the height of the pyramid. Later, it was moved again to a third location above the second location, and that second location was then to become the queen’s burial chamber.

Even if this were true, the logic in this explanation fails to account for the original intent of the large passageway, called the Grand Gallery, that forms a magnificent seven-layered corbel-vault ceiling built from enormous limestone blocks. The gallery joins the upper chamber to the middle chamber directly beneath it. Interestingly, on both sides of the Grand Gallery are low ramps that run the length of the passageway.

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