Robert Bauval Wrote:
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> Was the Subterranean Chamber also a 'precaution'
> in case Khufu died before the pyramid was even
> started?....
>
> And Why not build only one chamber at ground level
> (as in G2 for example) and avoid all these
> alledged 'precautions' that you suggested?...

Hello Robert,

This is what bothers me about Anthony's theory.
Had the builder's wanted a back-up burial chamber in case Khufu died before the King's Chamber was constructed they surely would have built a chamber nearer to base level as you suggest.
It would have been even easier and less of a gamble to have completed the Subterranean Chamber whilst work started on the superstructure.
However, I hazard that the shafts are an integral factor in Anthony's theory, and though the AEs were master builders even they couldn't have tunnelled such small shafts from the inside of the Subterranean Chamber out to the Pyramid's faces.
I think it would help everybody here if Anthony were to let us know what he thinks the main purpose or objective of the Queen's Chamber was.

And what would the builders have done had Khufu died shortly after the Queen's Chamber and its passage had been completed (query the floors)?
How would the builders have got a sarcophagus into the Chamber?
Or did they put a coffer in place and build the Chamber walls around it, then, once the King's Chamber was ready, go back to the Queen's Chamber and smash the no-longer required coffer?
It's been seriously suggested that the King's Chamber is not big enough to have been Khufu's burial chamber, so what is to be made of the much smaller Queen's Chamber?
And what does Anthony's theory require the King's Chamber shafts to do at the Pyramid's north and south faces, emerge and be open to the elements and wind-blown sand, or did they stop short of the faces?

So many questions. So few answers.

Regards,

MJ