fmetrol Wrote:
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> MJ Thomas Wrote:
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>
> > As there is reasonable cause to doubt the
> theory
> > that these blocks were slid down the
> Ascending
> > Passage after Khufu's funeral, we have to
> face the
> > logical conclusion that Khufu may not have
> been
> > taken to the King's Chamber via this
> Passage...
>
> We don't have to face any logical conclusion
> because none can be made.


Hello Graham,

Perhaps it would be better to say: we need to consider the possibility that Khufu may not have been taken to the King's Chamber via this Passage...

I should like to point out that this is assuming Khufu was buried in the Pyramid - which is what I am doing here, but only for the sake of this discussion re the blocks in the Passage.


> I mean I could easily conclude that he wasn't
> placed in the sarcophagus at all because it simply
> wasn't finished. The description given by Petrie
> of both the chamber and the sarcophagus raises
> about a dozen objections to him being buried, even
> though that might have been the original
> intention.
>
> In the past statements have been made that the
> plug holes to hold the lid contain residue, a sure
> sign of there having once been a lid. This is
> simply not true. Khafre's has residues but not
> Khufu's. Besides not a fragment of the lid has
> been found nor reported so in over 200 years of
> archaeology. It simply doesn't exist, or rather
> didn't exist.

I am far from convinced that Khufu was ever put in the King's Chamber - and partly because of the points you mention.


> What should be a logical conclusion cannot be made
> because pyramids are tombs and it's impossible to
> convince anyone otherwise.

Headache inducing, isn't it.

MJ