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The Great Pyramids Equation offers a building hypothesis for the pyramid of Khufu, also called Cheops. The inclined shafts, this account says, are not air channels. Their bends make sense if they follow the edges of construction trenches, a pattern also read in unfinished pits, including Djedefre at Abu Rawash, where a descending ramp sits off center. The favored method supplies stone from above and lowers heavy blocks down a slope, which also explains rough exits that a religious reading would call careless. In the key phase, two ascending ramps face each other in parallel trenches and are raised as the courses rise. A famous counterweight idea for the Grand Gallery is set aside for a simpler picture: shafts run beside the ramps to elevator heads, crews stand on a platform for modest loads, and the wells are packed with blocks only after the pyramid has risen past them. Granite for the upper chamber is lowered into place. He calls it a hypothesis and points to a shallow strip of blocks in the upper eastern face as a possible scar.
Key points
- The inclined shafts are explained as lines left by trenches and ramps, not as ventilation.
- Unfinished pyramids are used as comparisons, especially an off center descending ramp.
- Heavy blocks are said to have been supplied from above and lowered, not hauled up from the base.
- Two ascending ramps in parallel trenches, plus side elevators, do the main lifting.
- Crews on a platform serve as the counterweight for lighter loads, and the wells are filled in later.
- A shallow vertical strip on the upper eastern face is offered as a possible scar of that system.
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Its main feature and advantage is the fact that all building materials are not raised from below, but are supplied from above.
Great Pyramids Equation, A ramp hypothesis for Khufu
The method’s main advantage is feeding stone down from above. Watch at 18:32
It turns out that we have two ascending ramps, going towards each other in two parallel vertical trenches.
Great Pyramids Equation, A ramp hypothesis for Khufu
He pictures two ramps climbing toward each other in parallel trenches. Watch at 26:42
The shafts were laid along the ramps, and the ramps go right to the upper points of the elevators.
Great Pyramids Equation, A ramp hypothesis for Khufu
Shafts are said to follow the ramps up to the tops of the elevators. Watch at 32:29
Several dozen people could stand on the platform, the load was lifted, and the workers walked up.
Great Pyramids Equation, A ramp hypothesis for Khufu
A crew standing on the platform is the counterweight for a modest lift. Watch at 34:42
In the process of erecting the King's Chamber, granite blocks were lowered down and installed in their places.
Great Pyramids Equation, A ramp hypothesis for Khufu
Granite for that chamber is lowered into place rather than pushed upward. Watch at 37:46
The depth of this strip is only 2-3 centimeters, but under certain lighting it is clearly visible.
Great Pyramids Equation, A ramp hypothesis for Khufu
A shallow seam in the outer courses is visible only in the right light. Watch at 41:17
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