We're still left with the "foeign" sand around
the queen's chamber, water erosion on the Sphinx
enclosure, and ancients reports of water around
the pyramids. There is also a veritable mountain
of circumstantial evidence.

There's even one pyramid with a flooded substruc-
ture which they've been trying to pump out for at
least a year. There's another being explored by
scuba divers.

While the Nile would seem to be unable to reach
these levels now or in the past even under extreme
conditions it may have come close. More import-
antly there was apparently an E-W river just north
that was much higher and the lifting necessary
was within human ability.

I wouldn't be so quick to dimmiss "yeast gas" as
the motive force for lifting this water. Once the
"’I [];.t-wt.t" brings the water to the surface
(or higher) it is available for use in filling
counterweights or a series of locks which may have
taken half as long to build as the pyramid itself.

Water was more available in 2600BC than it is now.
And even more so not long before that. Obviously
they weren't waiting for rain to fill counterweights
but more water does translate to a higher water
table at the very least.

Edited to add that the best evidence that there was
copious amounts of water here is what is usually the
first to be tossed aside; the natural cavern could
only have been carved by water. There are not only
the several natural caverns WITHIN THE PYRAMID ITSELF
including the grotto but there is a huge natural fis-
sure just to the north of the pyramid and centered on
it.

There's no certainty of when these were carved but
it's a safe bet that it occurred when there was more
water in the area.

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/21/2007 10:23AM by cladking.