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Of course it’s “Alternative!”. You only have to read the “Conclusion” to see how “alternative” his views are.
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“The non-mathematician may take this as an excuse to dismiss my geometrical findings, not realizing that the various relationships are irrefutable facts which cannot be rejected as hypothetical or speculative. On the contrary, it is the funerary theory that is speculative for t
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
The most recent survey details I can find were published in 2004 by Rainer Stadelmann* and seem to be based on those of Josef Dorner from the late 1980s or early 1990s. Anyway, way more recent than Petrie’s figures used in the article. As the modern figures are in all instances different than those of Petrie I can’t see any justification in using his old figures. Stadelmann’s figures are also dif
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Nothing has been "covered up" or "filled in". You just can't see the whole area in the modern photo for the obvious reason that it's looking from below. I've stood in the same place as the people in the 1916 photo on two occasions and it looks the same now as then except there's a grill over the passage entrance. Even with the grill I was able to take a pho
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Ancient Egypt
Personally I would not be happy with any destructive investigation. I’m prepared to wait for technological solutions. Whatever’s inside has been there for 4,500 years so a few more years is OK with me.
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Ancient Egypt
Waggy wrote:
“it’s likely that removal of some of the masonry under the lower chevron will be required in order to access the space and discover the manner of blockage at its south end.”
I wonder if this will happen. After work was done by Jean-Patrice Goidin and Gilles Dormion in 1986, when holes were drilled into the wall of the passage to the Queen’s Chamber, there was an outcry and permis
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Ancient Egypt
Little did I or anyone else know when I took this photo that there was a chamber some way above me:
(Hermione) I don't think there's much of value in my old 3D work as software and other people's skills have moved on. It's all archived now and I've not looked at any of it for a long time.
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Ancient Egypt
It's years ago now that I did some 3D drawings of the chambers of the GP. Now, suddenly, along with every other drawing published in countless books they are out of date. To actually see a photo of a new chamber all-be-it one seemingly designed as a "relieving chamber" is extraordinary.
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Ancient Egypt
There have been several news articles about these recent discoveries at Saqarra. This one has some good photos:
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Ancient Egypt
Whatever the original use of the shafts, these days they serve a very practical purpose as electric fans at the top ends draw air into the King’s Chamber from the outside. There’s a also a fan at the bottom end of the Southern Shaft inside the Chamber.
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Ancient Egypt
On a visit to Giza in 2008 I wanted to visit was Tura to see what remained of the ancient quarries which are the source of the Great Pyramid’s casing stones. I’ve seen photographs that Petrie took in the quarries in the 1880s when he commented on surviving parallel lines of horizontal cutting with Old Kingdom chisel marks still visible. Before I went I'd had trouble finding much information
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> I'm sure anyone reading this would feel concerned about the problems you kept having with the military.
Things can sometimes work the other way around. Some years ago I visited Meidum during a period of heightened security due to terrorist activities. An armed guard, rifle in hand, stood on top of Mastatba 17 next to the pyramid and I was the only visitor in the area.
After going
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Ancient Egypt
I’d wanted to visit the so-called "Layer Pyramid" for a long time. It was one of the only Old Kingdom Pyramids I’d not visited and photographed. Most references to it will say that it's at Zawiyet el-Aryan and will add that it's near a military area.
Unfortunately the name Zawiyet el-Aryan had long since gone out of use in Egypt and my attempts to locate it elicited only bl
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Another cycle ride to the “Theban Hills” this one in 2003. As usual I crossed the Nile in the early morning by local ferry with my hired bicycle. Again, as usual, I stopped to visit the Colossi of Memnon and also to have a look at an unusual Crocodile Sphinx which had only recently been discovered.
Then I continued to Medinet Habu the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III. The first str
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Ancient Egypt
> The pyramidion you show is not from the Black pyramid
Oops.
They are next to each other in the museum:
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Ancient Egypt
During a trip to Egypt in 2007 I visited one of my favourite sites which is Dahshur.
As I always do, I looked across the desert to the so-called "Black Pyramid".
It's a familiar view to anyone who's been to Dahshur. Even with a telephoto the Pyramid tends to remains a bit lost in the "Blue distance".
It's much later than the two stone built pyra
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Ancient Egypt
Getting to the Mastaba El Faraun was great fun. I initially tried to go by horse but after protracted negotiations I had to give up. So I got as near as possible by taxi which involved going through a small local village where the road suddenly ended in sand. I then walked across the desert. I also walked to the nearby pyramid of Pepi II.
I’ve visited Abu Roash twice which is one of my favour
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Ancient Egypt
Looking at maps in books and even at Google earth it's difficult to get much idea of how the terrain looks between the main Pyramid sites and how each site looks from the others. This series of photographs, going North to South, is my attempt to clarify things a little bit.
First the view from the site of Djedefre's ruined pyramid at Abu Roash looking towards Giza.
Then the v
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Ancient Egypt
>I wonder if it might actually have been Perring ...
Yes I think that's very probable. Smyth often refers to Perring as "the engineer".
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>However, it can't have been Waynman Dixon who worked with Vyse and Perring: according to this, he wasn't born until 1844
You are quite right. Don't remember why I said that as Waynman Dixon didn't arrive at Giza until 1872. Petrie doesn't give enough detail to identify his "English Engineer".
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The photos from my original post of thirteen years ago have long since disappeared so I’ve reloaded them and expanded the text a bit.
There's a famous photograph of Flinders Petrie standing outside the tomb that he lived in for several seasons over the two years that he spent measuring the Great Pyramid and other features for his Giza survey. The results of his work were published in 1883
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Can't do any actual travel at the moment so I've been looking back at photos of some of my trips to Egypt. One of my favourite things to do when I stayed at Luxor was to hire a bicycle in Luxor and then cross the Nile on one of the local ferries and spend a day cycling around the sites and walking the paths in the Theban Hills.
Here's some photos from one such cycle and walk in
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A long time ago I posted some observations on the various interpretations made by various writers and surveyors of the Great Pyramid corner sockets. They were thought to be important in establishing the original size of the pyramid. I was interested, therefore, to see no mention of them at all in the JEA article “The 2015 survey of the base of the Great Pyramid” (JEA Vol 102 p.186). Lerner is quo
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Khazar-khum wrote "Ladyboys within"
A depressingly clichéd view of the country and people that I love and where I spend two months a year.
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Ancient Egypt
In Thailand there’s a large park called “Mini Siam” which started as a display of scale models of famous Thai landmarks. Some years ago they extended it to include famous buildings from around the world. Some of the models are a lot more successful than others. The one of Abu Simbel is one of the largest and I thought it was quite good. The hieroglyphs are nonsense but the statues still impress.
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Ancient Egypt
You can't just point at something and shout "anomaly!"
Fine, next time I'm there if I see anything I think is anomalous I won't bother posting it here.
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The small photo you linked was taken by Morton Edgar before the First World War. It’s of the best preserved casing blocks near the centre of the Northern face. Howard Vyse excavated a fissure in the rock at this point in 1837 but found nothing.
It has been heavily restored now and even one of the casing stones has been patched up. Here’s a couple of views (the first from above) of the area as
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