Ronald Wrote:
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>>> I wonder what Hawass actually hopes/expects to find behind the second and third door.<<<
Hawass' ideas are a little "weard", the following can be read
here:
Some believe these doors have a symbolic meaning because it is written on the Pyramid Text that the Pharaoh must travel through a series of doors to reach the Netherworld. But, I feel from the shape of the second door that it has another function. We can see that the second chamber inside the Great Pyramid is small, and could not have been designed for burial. Also the shafts were completely closed until 1872 when they were opened by Dixon. I do not understand how they called them air shafts. The second chamber had no evidence that it was planned to be blocked.
I would like to suggest that these doors hide Khufu's real burial chamber, and the bending in the north shaft was there to avoid the Grand Gallery. This means that the two shafts were carved after the construction of the Great Pyramid. We know the ancient Egyptians tried very hard to hide the tombs by blocking the burial chambers with huge blocks or making the Pyramid entrance so narrow that no one could enter. They also wrote curse inscriptions to try to stop anyone who wanted to enter and disturb the tombs of the Pharaohs.
Jeff
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