MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> Ronald Wrote:
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> > Anthony Wrote:
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> >
> > > Khufu's pyramid was an anomaly with
> regards
> > to
> > > having a passage that descended even
> part-way
> > to
> > > the entrance (for more than a few feet,
> > anyway).
> > > The design convention was to have a
> small
> > passage
> > > that sloped down (much like we see
> leading to
> >
> >
> >
> > > the Subterranean Chamber,the first
> > contingency burial
> > > chamber in case of Khufu's early
> demise.) ...
> >
> >
> >
> > The fact that we have the Subterranean
> > ('burial')Chamber, the Queen's
> ('burial')Chamber
> > and the King's Chamber, of which three at
> least
> > one is the result of the possibility of
> Khufu's
> > early demise, indicates that, imo, these
> chambers
> > were not planned in advance, but designed at
> and
> > built from the very moment that the new
> situation
> > (the survival of Khufu) occured. For such
> > circumstance, the wonderful characteristic of
> the
> > Ancient Egyptians, namely having been
> intuitive
> > builders, was utterly suitable.
>
> Hello Ronald,
>
> It is not known what the Subterranean Chamber and
> Queen's Chamber were intended to be for.
> The "contingency burial chamber" hypothesis is
> exactly that: a hypothesis, and one that does not,
> IMO, stand up to close scrutiny at all well.
>
> > The most planning was needed not for the
> interior
> > design, but for the quarrying, shaping,
> > transport/supply and the placement of the
> > stone-blocks forming the horizontal courses.
> After
> > all, the very narrow core of the pyramid
> (the
> > chambers and passages), represent only a
> tiny
> > fraction of the overall stone mass.
>
> It strikes me that here you are erroneously
> lumping the designing of the Pyramid's interior in
> with the planning required for the "quarrying,
> shaping, transport/supply and the placement of the
> stone-blocks forming the horizontal courses".
>
> It is worth noting that the building of the upper
> Passages and Chambers, and the astonishing Grand
> Gallery were a very different and much more
> demanding proposition to the comparatively easier
> to build core of the Pyramid's superstructure.



Hey MJ,


I simply mean, imho, that there was never a building-plan, not for the QC, nor for the KC, at any moment; excépt at the very moment a new situation occured (the survival of Khufu and related change of mind of the Pharaoh), a design/plan/construction was booted and executed.


Ronald.