January 04, 2008 06:15AM
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It boils down to when the entrance first became exposed enough to be viewed from the ground below. I would imagine that a partial collapse of the casing at its weakest point might be a good guide, Gouging out footholds in the outer casing wouldn't have been a problem but it's only done when something viewed from below demands investigation.
All we can do is move back from the present., step by step.
We have the Strabo account of 24BC where it was reported that a perfectly concealed swivel door marked the entrance. We are unable to determine whether this was an actual eye witness account or the belief of those who instructed him, and of course a perfectly concealed swivel door has to be anchored and in touch with the outer casing to be described in such terms.
I can recall there were also earlier Arab accounts of at least one of the great pyramids being fully denuded of its outer casing on one or more sides. I searched this site but couldn't locate the post that referred to this source.
The door on the North therefore may have been visible sometime prior to these earlier Arab accounts more than 2000 years ago, in fact it may go back as far as those big earthquakes which were probably responsible for dropping the KC wall more than 2 inches.
Other than that I am at the mercy of your good evidence which has hte pyramid first broken into during the 5th dynasty.
Graham.
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