Pyramid Scheme Uncovered?

French Architect Claims To Have Uncovered Mystery Of The Great Pyramid

(AP)  A French architect claimed Friday to have uncovered the mystery about how Egypt's Great Pyramid of Khufu was built — with use of a spiral ramp to hoist huge stone blocks into place.

The construction of the Great Pyramid 4,500 years ago by Khufu, a ruler also known as Cheops, has long befuddled scientists as to how its 3 million stone blocks weighing 2.5 tons each were lifted into place.

Ending eight years of study on the subject, architect Jean-Pierre Houdin released his findings and a computerized 3-D mockup showing how workers would have erected the pyramid at Giza outside Cairo.

The most widespread theory had been that an outer ramp had been used by the Egyptians, who left few traces to help archeologists and other scientists decode the secret to the construction.

Houdin said he had taken into account the copper and stone tools available at the time, the granite and limestone blocks, the location of the pyramid and the strength and knowledge of the workers.

According to his theory — shown in a computer model available at www.3ds.com/khufu — the builders put up an outer ramp for the first 140 feet, then constructed an inner ramp in a corkscrew shape to complete the 450-foot structure.

Houdin also postulated that King's Chamber was hoisted into place through a system of counterweights.

Houdin said he plans to verify his theories through non-invasive tests on site.

[rf35]

The new part isn't the ramp; it's the location of the ramp...inside the pyramid.

But it's still a crock...men from Atlantis used hijacked alien spaceships with antigravity technology to build the pyramids. They were supposed to be beacons for the nice aliens, but then Atlantis sank before they were finished so the Egyptians decided to use the pyramids as tombs for their kings instead.

[darkfyreaol]

The problem with the wooden rollers, hoisting those massive stone blocks onto the wooden logs would have been extremely time-consuming. Not to mention the weight of the stone could easily have crushed the logs into splinters. I don't even believe that many of the trees in that area were perfectly straight or all of the same thickness..Which could resort to more problems.

[tucson23]

Really, I'm disappointed there aren't people seriously saying that aliens built the pyramids. I'm kind of used to the CBS boards being dominated by crackpots. Well, at least Agnim chimed in, that's a start.

[chipper777]

Now think about this a little bit. If you first build a flat smooth passageway, and use huge rollers made from trees, it could have been done easily with the use of elephants. What you might say, wooden roller? Do you see many trees left where giant forest used to exist, until they decided to trade the loss of trees for stone monuments. It is our generations that finally miss the trees, not the pyramid building tree abusers.

[agnim]

Another lost and misguided so-called architect who have downed too much french wine.

The technology used to build the Pyramid is the same technology used to build these structures:

[vancouverboo]

Herodotus (484-425 BC) recorded in his Histories that the Egyptians explained to him how they were build, that they used a series of small levers at each level to raise a stone from layer to layer until reaching the top. That's so simple and so logical. Why does anyone have a problem accepting it?

[sclaires]

I don't see how it could have been build the way he says. After all they found domitories, kitchens, etc next to the pyramids for thousands of workers. And to say it took only about 4000 workers to build such a monument. I think he needs to go back to square one and start over. It appears there is more then one screw loose in his head!!

[anjta]

Nah. The descendants of the Maltese who built Hagar Qim did not want to give them private lessons. Basically, it's a hollowed-out and sculpted mountain and trompe l'oeil brickwork to make it seem like a construction. But it isn't.

[extremophil]

Any scholar knows that they used alien spaceships powered by Elvis' and Anna Nicoles love child.

[thgdriver]

Obviously they started at the top and worked their way down, that way, you don't have to lift anything, It falls into place.

[thgdriver]

Another crackpot gets paid huge sums of cash for 8 years dreaming up an idea that makes no sense. I must be in the wrong business.

[lily_ayanami]

I'm know I've heard this theory before... Like in grade school... I'm disappointed. I was hoping for a novel idea.

[vancouverboo]

Eight years living the high life on government grants and this is what he comes up with. Schoolteachers are overpaid, underworked and poorly trained.

[taddles-2009]

"Believe me ... they did not use ramps to lift all those blocks of stone.
Posted by mergatroidal at 11:23 AM : Mar 31, 2007"

So obviously the architect/archeologist who spent 8 years studying Kufu is wrong...how did they do it? magic?

[mergatroid_4]

Ramps shmamps! Believe me when I say if a classroom of high school students were tasked to conjecture upon how the Egyptian engineers accomplished the task of stacking all those blocks one upon another, from the dozen or so ideas one of these students would sound out the correct approach ..., and the true way was not with "ramps."

Believe me ... they did not use ramps to lift all those blocks of stone.

[grazinggoat]

Just wondering what'd happen if an airplane hit the tip of one of the Pyramids? Would it fall like the WTC?

I think he could have gotten his message across better using quicktime on his website better, the application he used sent my computer into a memory dump and crashed

[crater7]

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