How the Great Pyramids were built (maybe)

[SexyGreyFox]

This is old but I've never seen it mentioned on here and for me this is quite a feasible theory.

Past theories include a massive ramp, a circular ramp, lifting machines and the one I preferred when I was a lad - Aliens.
Anyway, these French dudes have come up with a theory with quite a bit of backup which makes it all obvious now.

Main story here (click on the video) -
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081114-pyramid-room.html

Another bit here -
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070402-great-pyramid.html

The Frenchies homepage (click on Clues) -
http://khufu.3ds.com/introduction/

The plugin is worth loading for the 3D films too.

A picture -

 

[shauncr91]

Thanks for the link, very interesting

 

[Katoom]

They weren't 'built up', they were 'dug away from'.

 

[bsoltan]

Aliens are more fun.

 

[alex24]

Fascinating! Another one of lifes mysteries solved. I suppose they'll have to look again for those in the next survey.

 

[^TANK^]

Interesting, I went to Egypt when I was eight years old. Amazing structure inside and out the old pyramids.

 

[Killa_ken]

tmtr somebody care to cut out the crap?

 

[SexyGreyFox]

tmtr somebody care to cut out the crap?

The circular ramp is on the inside and not the outside.

 

[Jonny69]

It's all rubbish. The real story goes something like this: the egyptions were good inventors and up until about 1700bc they couldn't build anything like the pyramids. Around that time the whip was invented and all of a sudden amazing structures could be built with little more than hundreds of slaves. Some time following that the cat o' nine tails was invented and work progressed even faster and more elaborate than ever before.

 

[Sinque]

It's all rubbish. The real story goes something like this: the egyptions were good inventors and up until about 1700bc they couldn't build anything like the pyramids. Around that time the whip was invented and all of a sudden amazing structures could be built with little more than hundreds of slaves. Some time following that the cat o' nine tails was invented and work progressed even faster and more elaborate than ever before.

Almost the same principal as china nowadays.

 

[Pho]

Does anyone else find the music / sound effects in that 3D simulation drown out the voice? I can't figure out how you change the volumes, either.

 

[Andr3w]

Lies.,... it was aliens.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Heads up

HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Timewatch
On: BBC 2 Midlands (102)
Date: Saturday 28th March 2009 (starting in 1 hour and 13 minutes)
Time: 20:25 to 21:15 (50 minutes long)

Pyramid - The Last Secret.
For centuries archaeologists have been trying to work out how the ancient Egyptians raised huge stone blocks to the top of the Great Pyramid. This documentary presents a radical new theory by French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin. He believes that an internal ramp was used, which is still inside the Pyramid waiting to be discovered. If he is right, it is the greatest discovery since Tutankhamun.

 

[eXor]

Nonsense.

They are Ra's space fleet.

 

[semi-pro waster]

Interesting, pity I missed it the thread the first time around. It would seem to make sense although I can't understand why the external ramp theory would have been persisted with given a lack of evidence to support it.

 

[pingwing]

Humm interesting, time to play pharoah again i think.....

 

[Vonhelmet]

They had whips, dmpoole, massive whips.

 

[Amp34]

Interesting theories, although it was a shame it was the usual dumbed down tat timewatch is now, I just wanted to strangle the presenter all the way through...

 

[DominicStar]

Im no architect, but does this sit right with all the hidden chambers that are still being discoverd that require crawling through etc?

 

[Nanoman]

edit. nvm its the same doc I watched not long ago.