Topic: Great Pyramid Mystery to Be Solved by Hidden Room?

[sam]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081114-pyramid-room.html?source=rss

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.

[Simon]

It would be fascinating if the secrets of the pyramids were revealed.

[GillE]

The construction of the pyramids is only a mystery to archaeologists.  A few years ago, one of them asked a stone mason how the pyramids could have been built and he showed them, using nothing more than levers, blocks and tackle which would have been available to the ancient Egyptians.

[sam]

it mentions that in the article... but they also say that it would not have been feasible..