PYRAMID PROJECT

My Pyramid Construction Theory

I'm building scale models of the Great Pyramid of Giza in my workshop and I feel like I'm learning a lot.

As an experienced builder of industrial brick chimneys I've had many discussions with my son William about how the pyramids were built and I've concluded that I disagree with the experts.

I think each block of the great pyramid was cast in situ on site. This is also know as shuttering. I.e They cast one stone with a mixture, then moved on to the next. Hence why, in places, they are so flush. 

For this, the most important prerequisite would've been to create a channel of water from the Nile to the site, so they could dampen the mix efficiently.

The reason why this makes sense is because it means workers didn't have to carry enormous blocks long distances, instead they could cast huge blocks in situ, and the heat of the sun would dry them out rock solid - which is why today, they the blocks appear to be individual huge rectangular stones.

The granite stones inside (like the ones in the queens and kings chamber) would have also been cast - but with a different mix. This, again, explains how they are aligned with such precision.  

The starting point for the original construction would have begun with a centre point. Then they would have made "a square" around it, roughly 20ft x 20ft, which they lined up (the faces) with north, south, east and west. 

Then they would've taken a line (from the centre point), through the corners of the square, to where they wanted the corners of the intended pyramid to be. The architect would have used a staff with a hole in - the hole would have been the exact height of his eye from the ground. This determined the course height.

There are 201 courses from top to bottom (480.69ft) - the maximum course height was 60 inches (5ft), meaning the architects eye was 5ft from the ground (making him about 5ft 4 tall).

There are smaller courses, some only being about 20 inches high, these would have occurred due to interruptions in the shuttering process - like stopping for adverse weather conditions or disruptions to supply of materials. 

I think there are still chambers inside the pyramid that are yet to be discovered. There would be a chamber, or at least a void, near the very top because the pinnacle carries less weight and needs less support.

Also, a void would put less pressure on the Kings Chamber (roughly at the centre) making the integrity of the whole pyramid more sound while at the same time requiring less building work.

What I'm talking about may not be a burial chamber containing a pharaoh but it could contain something they considered to be precious.

There is a mystery about the shafts coming out of the both the Kings and Queens chambers. I think it's relatively straightforward - they were air shafts - like many already believe.  This theory was made hard to swallow when Waynman Dixon (who broke open the shafts in the Queens Chamber) discovered that in the Queens Chamber, at least, the vents appeared to be blocked during construction. However, I don't this this was the case. The vents in the wall could have easily been rendered over at the very end of construction and polished to look like the block was originally intact when laid.  So just to reiterate they - were - airshafts during construction, then they were covered over at both ends on completion.  Not only would the workers require air but so would their light sources (torches).

2 million blocks coming from a quarry weighing on average 2.5 tonnes - is an impossible feat. Especially one of the granite stones in the Kings chamber potentially weighing 80 tonnes. They had to be cast. People will argue that a lot of the stones are irregular shapes -  Casting irregular shapes allows movement, thus making the structure stronger  - just like expansion joints in modern building techniques. 

We all have our ideas about the pyramids... and these ones are mine.