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In 2007 Jean-Pierre Houdin, a French architect, revealed his revolutionary new theory as to how the Great Pyramid in Egypt was built. Dassault Systemes, a team of computer engineers, spent 2 years testing his 'internal ramp' theory with scientific 3D simulations. Their website allows you to fly around the pyramid as it would have looked 4,500 years ago and explains in outline Jean-Pierre's theory.

Chapters are:
The two enigmas of the Great Pyramid
http://youtu.be/ysuAXrh2OTY#t=53

The genius of the builders (5th year)
http://youtu.be/ysuAXrh2OTY#t=305

The genius of the builders (14th year)
http://youtu.be/ysuAXrh2OTY#t=778

The genius of the builders (15th year)
http://youtu.be/ysuAXrh2OTY#t=1052

Seventy days to be reborn
http://youtu.be/ysuAXrh2OTY#t=1778

The paths to eternity
http://youtu.be/ysuAXrh2OTY#t=2320

The Great Pyramid seen from the sky
http://youtu.be/ysuAXrh2OTY#t=3042
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Haven't we had this conversation before?

Who in their right mind would 1 want to stand in the Nile all day and B survive standing in the Nile all day?

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What about the Aztec/Mayan pyramids? or the others around the world

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That's a pretty interesting theory. I'd heard of it before, but not of the antechambers.

As for South American pyramids, I don't believe they share any characteristics, asides from the basic geometric shape.

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As you said, the article is from 2007 and surely must have been discussed here. The idea hasn't exactly caught fire with any Egyptologists, though. Every once in awhile, I see him pushing his theory again, generally just as he comes out with a new book that rehashes most of his old stuff.

I was reading Mark Lehner's Complete Pyramids book (he's the guy who has the license to dig around most of Giza), and he mentions that Egyptologists are constantly hammered by people who have never studied the culture but have a "rock-solid explanation of how the Great Pyramid was built." Every time Houdin runs another promotion or someone comes up with an "amazing new idea", it gets trotted out to the media.

Sorry if I sound jaded. Houdin's idea made the rounds for quite awhile and never lived up to its promise. The "solution" should explain not only G1, but G2, G3, and all the rest of the pyramids.

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As you said, the article is from 2007 and surely must have been discussed here. The idea hasn't exactly caught fire with any Egyptologists, though. Every once in awhile, I see him pushing his theory again, generally just as he comes out with a new book that rehashes most of his old stuff.

I was reading Mark Lehner's Complete Pyramids book (he's the guy who has the license to dig around most of Giza), and he mentions that Egyptologists are constantly hammered by people who have never studied the culture but have a "rock-solid explanation of how the Great Pyramid was built." Every time Houdin runs another promotion or someone comes up with an "amazing new idea", it gets trotted out to the media.

Sorry if I sound jaded. Houdin's idea made the rounds for quite awhile and never lived up to its promise. The "solution" should explain not only G1, but G2, G3, and all the rest of the pyramids.

Yes Pyramid ideas are rather common, good ones very rare. However, what if they had a cold water CO2 geyser?

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The Smithsonian Channel is showing a new documentary about building Khufu's great pyramid. A structural engineer named Peter James, and Egyptologist Mark Lehner are in the new documentary. The documentary also covers a diary that was found in 2013, written by one of the ancient Egyptians who worked on Khufu's pyramid.

The new documentary explains that Giza quarries would have produced huge amounts of rubble, while also producing rectangular blocks of stone. The only practical place to put the rubble is "inside" the pyramid.

http://www.smithsoni...1003102/3412162

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/new-theory-how-egypts-pyramids-were-built-will-cause-war-archaeologists-video-1431910

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Yes Pyramid ideas are rather common, good ones very rare. However, what if they had a cold water CO2 geyser?

you said the 'g' word :o I thought that was to be avoided lol

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As you said, the article is from 2007 and surely must have been discussed here. The idea hasn't exactly caught fire with any Egyptologists, though. Every once in awhile, I see him pushing his theory again, generally just as he comes out with a new book that rehashes most of his old stuff.

I was reading Mark Lehner's Complete Pyramids book (he's the guy who has the license to dig around most of Giza), and he mentions that Egyptologists are constantly hammered by people who have never studied the culture but have a "rock-solid explanation of how the Great Pyramid was built." Every time Houdin runs another promotion or someone comes up with an "amazing new idea", it gets trotted out to the media.

Sorry if I sound jaded. Houdin's idea made the rounds for quite awhile and never lived up to its promise. The "solution" should explain not only G1, but G2, G3, and all the rest of the pyramids.

I disagree the method for G1 should be directly applicable to G2 and G3. Perhaps they tried an innovative technique on G1 that did not prove effective enough to continue doing. Maybe G1 is the only one to contain a cold water co2 geyser and the others had to utilize a water based funicular system.

Or it was aliens...

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you said the 'g' word :o I thought that was to be avoided lol

By Bylaw 42-1 I and I alone am allowed to mention the word as long as I'm seated on three cans containing a whole chicken.

Thusly:

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I disagree the method for G1 should be directly applicable to G2 and G3. Perhaps they tried an innovative technique on G1 that did not prove effective enough to continue doing. Maybe G1 is the only one to contain a cold water co2 geyser and the others had to utilize a water based funicular system.

Or it was aliens...

I think it was Mayans but then I think Denmark started WWII

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As you said, the article is from 2007 and surely must have been discussed here. The idea hasn't exactly caught fire with any Egyptologists, though. Every once in awhile, I see him pushing his theory again, generally just as he comes out with a new book that rehashes most of his old stuff.

I was reading Mark Lehner's Complete Pyramids book (he's the guy who has the license to dig around most of Giza), and he mentions that Egyptologists are constantly hammered by people who have never studied the culture but have a "rock-solid explanation of how the Great Pyramid was built." Every time Houdin runs another promotion or someone comes up with an "amazing new idea", it gets trotted out to the media.

Sorry if I sound jaded. Houdin's idea made the rounds for quite awhile and never lived up to its promise. The "solution" should explain not only G1, but G2, G3, and all the rest of the pyramids.

? Geyser 1 , Geyser 2 and Geyser 3.

Surely, from now on ( and seeing as if I write ***** cat it comes out like this ... but if I write pussycat, it's okay ) we should now have an auto G**** function ?

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As you said, the article is from 2007 and surely must have been discussed here. The idea hasn't exactly caught fire with any Egyptologists, though. Every once in awhile, I see him pushing his theory again, generally just as he comes out with a new book that rehashes most of his old stuff.

I was reading Mark Lehner's Complete Pyramids book (he's the guy who has the license to dig around most of Giza), and he mentions that Egyptologists are constantly hammered by people who have never studied the culture but have a "rock-solid explanation of how the Great Pyramid was built." Every time Houdin runs another promotion or someone comes up with an "amazing new idea", it gets trotted out to the media.

Sorry if I sound jaded. Houdin's idea made the rounds for quite awhile and never lived up to its promise. The "solution" should explain not only G1, but G2, G3, and all the rest of the pyramids.

I am in agreement. Houdin's theory has some merit but it seems mainly popular among lay people and, to a degree, proponents of alternative history. Aside from Bob Brier, I am not aware of any academically respected scholar or historian who finds Houdin's theory plausible (and Brier himself isn't actually an Egyptologist, despite how he's often billed/bills himself, but I do like his work on paleopathology).

Houdin is merely trying to stay relevant. He had his fifteen minutes but keeps pumping out the same baseline. I'm not aware of any further supportive evidence he can offer.

Nevertheless, even the most conservative of us must admit that his theory is a hell of a lot more credible than so much of the half-baked twaddle one sees on the internet.

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What's all this mention of the G-word, people? Don't poke the bear!

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half-baked twaddle

Half baked? No my moldy friend they are raw, raw and still steaming.

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The University of Laval (Quebec) are about to commence Infrared thermography to determine different temperatures on the face of Khufu’s pyramid and the University of Tokyo are using Muons radiography to detect voids and this is being overseen by Faculty of Engineers of Cairo who will be working towards their PhD’s and all are working towards validating the internal ramp and the two hidden antechambers theory proposed by Jean-Pierre Houdin.

http://emhotep.net/2014/04/19/structures/pyramids-structures/sarah-korcz-a-new-interview-with-jean-pierre-houdin/#more-8904

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Half baked? No my moldy friend they are raw, raw and still steaming.

cold water co2 geysers don't steam, they mist...

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cold water co2 geysers don't steam, they mist...

You speak truth - I stand corrected!

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The University of Laval (Quebec) are about to commence Infrared thermography to determine different temperatures on the face of Khufu’s pyramid and the University of Tokyo are using Muons radiography to detect voids and this is being overseen by Faculty of Engineers of Cairo who will be working towards their PhD’s and all are working towards validating the internal ramp and the two hidden antechambers theory proposed by Jean-Pierre Houdin.

http://emhotep.net/2...udin/#more-8904

Interesting but a search of the University of Tokyo's pending research database shows no such research being planned - at least where I can find it.

http://proposal.ducr.../textsearch.cgi

This is the closest thing I could find in regards to what was said in the article

http://proposal.ducr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cgi-bin/ccr_usr/EN/detail.cgi?num=6253&query=hiroyuki%20tanaka&sub_query=&max=20

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The University of Laval (Quebec) are about to commence Infrared thermography to determine different temperatures on the face of Khufu’s pyramid and the University of Tokyo are using Muons radiography to detect voids and this is being overseen by Faculty of Engineers of Cairo who will be working towards their PhD’s and all are working towards validating the internal ramp and the two hidden antechambers theory proposed by Jean-Pierre Houdin.

http://emhotep.net/2...udin/#more-8904

Thanks for the link.

Unfortunately I believe this is an old interview and permissionfor him to do the

non-destructive and determinative testing has been rescinded. I believe they

just don't want to know the results because it would probably show how it was

built no matter what method was used.

From the article;

"With Dassault Systèmes, we have already done many simulations regarding the reactivity of the pyramid to this technique, and we know it is very well suited for our survey."

There was so much mist from the geysers you could even see a rainbow lit by the

fire-pan at night. ;)

I got another line from the PT last night. It refers to the sand thrown up, some of

which now resides in the walls of the horizontal passage.

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Yes Pyramid ideas are rather common, good ones very rare. However, what if they had a cold water CO2 geyser?

Now look what you did. :angry:

I think it was Mayans but then I think Denmark started WWII

Who told you that ?

It's supposed to be a secret !

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I am trying to find an older article about a researcher that had detectors and tried to image the GP using the Sun as a source of particles. Can't seem to get past sites claiming that the GP was used as a plutonium factory, orgone generator, model of the universe, or a whatever.

Did find this

http://www.academia.edu/1805485/Muon_detector_Pyramid_of_the_Sun_Teotihuacan

Looks like Luis Alvarez did this kind of work decades back. The articles says they are going to do something similar at Teotihuacan in 2003.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/boalva.html

In 1965 Alvarez took his physics expertise on an archeological expedition. A U.S.-Egyptian team was trying to find hidden chambers in the Giza pyramid in Egypt by using subatomic particles to calculate the pyramid's density. They didn't find any chambers, ...
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Unfortunately I believe this is an old interview and permission for him to do the

non-destructive and determinative testing has been rescinded..

I can find no evidence that any attempt nor a formal request was made to be gain such permission. Perhaps you can point to it.

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