I closed my file on the the Bent Pyramid after a few months because I felt it would be difficult to prove the dimensions of the original structure. By contrast, the original size and shape of the Great Pyramid have been proved beyond all reasonable doubt, assuming the pyramid was completed.

I have been supportive of your efforts because I know you may be right. Just because I think I have a neat plan that is reasonably consistent with Petrie and Perring doesn't mean that I am sure I am right.

We are in the realm of pyramidology in that we are most concerned about the original dimensions. For my part that's because I am not an architect, or a structural engineer, or an Egyptologist.

The original dimensions are not so important unless those dimensions reflect something, for example 360 degrees in a circle. Unfortunately, if we take the side length as 360 royal cubits then it is possible to imagine all sorts of relationships that may, or may not have been contemplated. The present state of the Bent Pyramid allows us to impose more than one perspective on what might have been intended.

It occurs to me that I could add my thoughts on the Bent Pyramid to the back of my website on the Great Pyramid, and perhaps the content of my website from 2009. I had missed the fact that the perimeter at the level of the bend can be estimated from the mean of all Petrie's measurements on the slopes below the level of the bend. It may be, as many suppose, that structural movement happened during construction so that original form can be recovered, most precisely, from Petrie's survey.

The perimeter at the level of the bend is very close to 25,900 digits from Petrie's survey of the lower slopes of the Bent Pyramid, as calculated from the mean of four measurements per side near the base and near the bend. My calculation was based on a base square with a side-length of 360 royal cubits.

It seemed to me that it would have been extremely difficult for AE to estimate the cycle of precession as 25,920 years, even if the cycle had been perceived from observations over many centuries. But having stumbled on this number, it was worth promoting my perspective, just in case archaeological evidence turns up.

I would be pleased if shafts were discovered as a result of your theoretical work, but that doesn't mean that I, or anyone else, would agree with your theory. So many people have imagined secret chambers all over the Great Pyramid. If another chamber is ever discovered then some-one will be able to say 'told you so'.

Mark



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/17/2015 03:36AM by Mark Heaton.