Hello Khazar-khum,

You asked, 'Why should the Gizamids escape robbery?'

I replied, 'Where have I said they were not robbed, or at least broken into by people intent on committing robbery?

You respond to this with, 'This very next paragraph:

> > I hypothesise that the three chambers in
> this
> > Pyramid were not used as the last resting
> place of
> > Khufu; IMO the actual burial chamber has yet
> to be
> > found.
> > Khufu's pyramid was broken into but never
> robbed
> > because the robbers failed to find the
> actual
> > burial chamber.

Which part of, "...or at least broken into by people intent on committing robbery?" do you not understand?
Or perhaps you are being pedantic?


You write, 'I have no problem with the notion that the pyramids were hit early. Knowing what you do of human nature, how long do you think people would have left pyramids alone?'

My understanding is that a king's pyramid was essential to that king's continued well being in the Afterlife, etc., and this in turn was imperative to stop the World collapsing around the AEs ears, or some such.
If this so, then I think it reasonable to assume that each pyramid would have been protected against illegal entry for as long as it held this sacred status.

However, if Khufu's pyramid was broken into during this period of sacredness, then there is, I suggest, something wrong with the idea that disaster would fall on the AEs if the king's travels to and from the Afterlife were in any way disrupted.
Another point is that if the Pyramid was broken into during its time of sacredness, then the act was carried out in collusion with people in authority - and this, too, must cast doubt on the status the Pyramid initially had in AE beliefs.
Perhaps we can argue that only a handful of priests and the Royal family believed all the stuff about the Afterlife, etc., and everybody else thought it a load of nonsense.
There again, I suppose we could introduce tomb robbers from another country, people who would have been unaffected by the prevailing AE beliefs.

IMO, when Khufu's pyramid was broken into depends heavily on how the break-in was carried out.
IMO, the upper chambers were not accesible via the Well Shaft until it was cleared by Caligula in 1817 (?), therefore the only access was by the tunnel allegedly excavated by AL Mamun.
Such a tunnel could not have been excavated during the period the Pyramid was seen as sacred, etc., so, figure out the soonest time such a tunnel could have been dug and you have the earliest possible date for the attempted robbery of Khufu's Pyramid.

MJ