RLH Wrote:
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> >At the risk of appearing evasive, would you
> mind my postponing answering your post until
> then?
>
> No I don’t mind at all!!! I look forward to see
> your views on the well shaft. It should make for
> some good discussions on the subject.
>
> I’m wondering if before the pyramid was built the
> well shaft might have actually had water at the
> bottom, maybe at a time when the Nile got much
> higher. But I don’t know if that was even
> possible.
>
> RLH
>
The top of the grotto is 225' above sea level. There
is no known way at the current time for water to have
been at this level. Many stranger things occur in na-
ture though so it can't be ruled out. One would think
that there must have been some reason for the ancients
to trudge up this hill to build their pyramids and ne-
cropolis. This may have even been their land of the hor-
izon since the horizon was often invisible in the valley.
If the Nile flood reached about 150' water might have
achieved this level from underground caverns connected
to Lake Moeris. This isn't out of the realm of reason
since Amazon floods reach 180'.
Geysers, hot springs,and fumerols seem to be ruled out.
Artesian wells are improbable from my understanding.
There's no doubt that water carved the natural caverns
with which the plateau is riddled. Giza was probably on
the east side of the Nile river when it was in the deep-
est canyon in the world. The canyon filled with sedi-
ment and the river changed it's course slightly to the
east of Giza. It's likely that the caverns were created
after this course change. Most caves form right below
the water table as water dissolves the limestone along
the planes of sedimentation and usually linearly. There
is an apparent massive sinkhole about ten miles north of
"Lake Moeris". Sinkholes would probably fill with sand
in only a few centuries now days.
There are numerous clues that water was available up here
but no known source.
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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.
