Anthony Wrote:
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> Ronald Wrote:
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> >
> > Why does the QC (most probably) doesn't have
> such
> > 'relieving chambers' then ? If the QC at
> first was
> > meant to be the actual burial chamber (in
> case
> > Khufu had passed away), why doesn't it bear
> such
> > chambers ?
>
>
> Exactly. If you follow this train of thought to
> its logical conclusion, what you find is the only
> structural difference between them is the Grand
> Gallery.
>
> Ergo, the concept of being overcautious after the
> Bent failure was probably weighing (pun intended)
> very heavily upon them.
>
>
>
> >
> > I said that maybe the GP was not
> sufficiently
> > pre-planned, but for the same money, the
> > architects knew very well that, because of a
> > pre-planned GG and a pre-planned height of
> the KC,
> > the gables hàd to be elevated, to avoid
> damage.
> >
>
> Take a look at this set of diagrams I did in a web
> article several years ago. (How time flies!).
>
> The relieving chambers are actually constructed to
> allow the entire burial chamber area to "float"
> within the body of the pyramid, like so:
>
>
>
> It is made free of shifting weights and downward
> pressure by the very design of it. Brilliant
> safety feature. The cautiousness of it is made
> evidence by the enormously complex steps they took
> to keep the weight of the pyramid from crushing
> down on the gables and forcing the southern wall
> of the Grand Gallery to implode inward. They knew
> exactly what they were doing with this. And, in
> all honesty, it may have been Khufu's observation,
> at the very outset of the project when he was
> probably looking at detailed diagrams and maybe
> even a scale model, that he was very worried about
> the roof of the burial chamber forcing the
> implosion of the Grand Gallery. It wouldn't
> matter whether we, as modern engineering types,
> felt it was a justified expense or not. If Khufu
> or Hemiunu felt it was a good enough reason, then
> by Khnum, it was a good enough reason!
>



> Incredible design from start to finish.


Yes. After comparing Khufu's KC and QC and realizing that the builders didn't take any risk and thus elevated the KC's gables high enough to avoid damage to the GG, there is, I think, no other logical explanation than that indeed we are confronted here with a start-to-finish design. But all this indicates that the architects must have had a lot of building-experience. But from where ? If I recall your picture of the preceeding Bent's subsidiary well, I don't think this pyramid contains 'relieving chambers' of the same sort above the burial chamber that elevate gables above the gallery's level ?


However, the scenario of necessarily corrected building plans (as pointed out by MJ), also is very possible.


Thanks for your explanation.


Ronald.