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> > > Horizontal ? What do you mean exactly ?
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> > > Ronald.
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> > Are the ends at the same elevation?
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> Hello Cladking,
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> The 'gallery' Anthony and others have in mind here
> (so I believe) is inside the Bent's Satellite
> pyramid.
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> If you compare the section of this pyramid's
> interior with Khufu's you will indeed see a
> certain similarity.
> This is especially true when you blank out in
> Khufu's pyramid the Subterranean Chamber and the
> Descending Passage downward from the start of the
> Ascending passage, and also remove the Queen's
> Chamber and its passage.


That's a lot to blank out to get a certain similarity, isn't it ... ?



> To my eyes, whoever designed the interior of
> Khufu's pyramid had knowledge of the interior of
> the Satellite pyramid.


> One thing I don't see is a 'scaled replica'.
>
> The Satellite pyramid has a level corbelled
> passage typical of pyramids before and after it.
> Khufu's pyramid has the awe-inspiring Grand
> Gallery which, aside from its corbelled section,
> is totally unlike the gallery in the Satellite
> (ramps, rectangular holes, grooves, Great Step,
> and a very steep slope).


So, Anthony exaggerated when saying ; 'Sneferu's subsidiary pyramid to his Bent pyramid has a nearly exact scaled replica of the passages and Grand Gallery in it.' ?


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