Hello Anthony,

I asked, 'So what was the contingency plan for Khufu dying before, say, work started on the Ascending Passage?

You reply, 1st Chamber (Subterranean Chamber).


I asked, ‘Would they have built another chamber (perhaps different again in shape and size to the KC
and the QC) at the level the superstructure had reached (in this scenario about 14 feet above the base) when the death occurred?’

You reply, ‘No time for that. A simple finishing off of the first chamber would have been forced upon them.’

How far would this ‘simple finishing off’ had gone?
Would they have excavated the entire volume marked out by the ceiling, walls and the area immediately surrounding the curious double shaft – thus creating a vast chamber 26.75 feet wide, 46 feet long, and 16.5 feet high (compared to the King’s Chamber @ 17.2 feet wide, 34.4 feet long, and 19.6 feet high) ?
Wouldn’t the builders have made sure that the Subterranean Chamber was properly prepared for a king’s burial before starting work on the superstructure?

If the Pyramid’s builders were quite prepared to use the Subterranean Chamber for Khufu’s final resting place sans shafts, then it is obvious, is it not, that said shafts were not actually necessary.
In which case the inevitable question is: why were the shafts needed in the Queen’s Chamber and the King’s Chamber?
If these shafts were essential for the deceased king’s post-mortem activities to work properly, why on earth would the builders even consider putting his remains in a chamber that simply could not have such shafts?
Are you suggesting that Khufu would have been interred in this cavernous unfinished Chamber had he died before the Queen’s Chamber was built, and then moved into the latter once it was ready?
Are you then proposing that once the King’s Chamber was completed, Khufu’s mortal remains were moved into it from the Queen’s Chamber?
Was part of the contingency plan to move Khufu’s remains into the other chamber as and when they were completed?
Which begs the question: what would Khufu’s spirit/soul/whatever have been doing whilst waiting for the other two Chambers to be built (after all, it would have taken several years of building to get from the Subterranean Chamber to the Queen’s Chamber)?

Let’s try another angle.
Had it proved necessary to place Khufu in the Subterranean Chamber, would the Queen’s Chamber, Grand Gallery, Antechamber, and King’s Chamber still have been built, and if so, why?


I wrote, ‘The more I think about it the more convinced I become that none of the known chambers were ever intended to be Khufu's burial place.’

To which you reply (every bit as expected by me), ‘Then you know little of Egyptology, Egyptian culture, or Egyptian mortuary practices, because the conclusion is without room for doubt.’

I concede that my knowledge of 4th Dyn culture and mortuary practices is not as extensive as it could be.
However this does not in anyway negate my above questions - questions which effectively question your conclusion.


I wrote, ‘Yes, the Pyramid is a tomb - of sorts.
But IMO Khufu's actual burial chamber has yet to be discovered.’

You respond (again much as I expected), ‘Yes... in the alien mother ship, next to Elvis and the Easter Bunny.
That's quite honestly how absurd the idea is, once you have actually taken the time to understand
real Egyptian history.’

‘Understand real Egyptian history’?
All you are saying here is:
‘If your interpretations of the evidence and your conclusions are the same as mine, then clearly you understand “real” Egyptian history.
However, if you disagree with my interpretations and conclusions, then equally clearly you have no idea what you are talking about and are completely ignorant of all Egyptology.’

Now then, how about you now answering the above questions about your ‘Contingency Theory’?

MJ