Tommi Huhtamaki Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Quote:
> >
> > It is quite probable that the main entrance
> of
> > Khufu's pyramid at Giza was actually known in
> the
> > time of Caliph Mahmun. Strabo indicates it
> was
> > known in 20BCE, and we really have no reason
> to
> > think it would have been lost or forgotten
> over
> > the years. Since we have no evidence to
> suggest
> > the location of the entrance was lost, then
> it is
> > likely that it was used by many people to
> explore
> > the subterranean passage.
>
>
> I really don't understand the logic of this. So we
> have no evidence that it was lost, and I gather
> that we have no evidence it was known? And from
> this lack of knowledge either way you jump to
> -> "it is likely that it was used by many
> people to explore the subterranean passage"?
>
> I hope I am misunderstanding something... what is
> it?
>
>


Yes, I worded it poorly. The subterranean PASSAGE was never lost at any time. The secret shaft that leads FROM the subterranean passage up to the Grand Gallery, however, became choked and "lost" until emptied from above... by Petrie, I think.


I base my conclusion on the debunking of the fact that Mamun supposedly knew about the entire descending passage because he talks about the stone falling from the ceiling of the passage. This claim seems rather far-fetched, as the sound would have had to travel through about 30 feet of core masonry. Add to this the noise of his own men working in the tunnel, and the tunnel being 30 feet away (and yet the movement that was supposed to jar the piece loose was the men tunneling!). This just doesn't make sense, and the other scenario clearly does.

It's also extraordinarily fortuitous that he just HAPPENED to pick a spot exactly parallel to the inner passage and tunneled almost directly to it, turning at just the right time to hit the joint just above the first granite block, and then cleared out both sides. Wow. Talk about luck. The ONLY tunnel into the pyramid, and he hits it spot on with his first try!

No, it didn't happen that way at all. He carved in a tunnel to go around the granite plug stones without disturbing them. In order to do that, he had to know the plug stones were there. In order to know that, he had to have been in the descending passageway. Ergo, the DP was never "lost".

Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/08/2007 02:50PM by Anthony.