Looks like a square structure, unusual for a mastaba. In fact, it looks like a square stepped pyramid.
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Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> What is the level of the floor in the top
> relieving chamber under the peak of the
> superstructure?
The relieving chambers have very uneven floors, so it is impossible to speak of the level of a floor.
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
Gillings gives the proof on pp. 192-193 of the Dover 1982 softback edition. You could easily find Gillings in most university libraries.
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
For KCS I take the final angle of the shaft to be 7 palms (45 degs). This points to Alnilam in -2552. For KCN I take the final angle to be 11.5 palms (31.33 degs). This points to Thuban in the same year, -2552.
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
He's fighting against both western academia and Zionism.
I wonder why this video was posted by Maccabees TV, which is Jewish/Zionist media.
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
> I will try to make a calculation for the actual KC
> shafts (the previous calculation was for
> hypothetical straight shafts connecting the
> observed inlets and outlets). This time we need to
> calculate the average slope and the length of the
> parts of the shafts marked in black on the drawing.
When we go by the average slope of the shafts, as Petrie did, we are led
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Kanga
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I am having difficulty posting....
"Gillings asks us to consider a pyramid of height k and base a, which is truncated at a height h to create a frustum (of height h and base a) and a second pyramid sitting on top of the frustum, of height L, where L = k - h, and base b.
Gillings shows that the formula imputed in MMP 14 (Vol equals 1/3 x h x (aa + ab + bb)) can be derived by subtracting
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
keeperzz Wrote:
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> 1) It is not clear why Gantenbrink gives the angle
> of the QCN shaft with an accuracy of 4 digits
> after the point (in other data, he uses one digit
> after the point).
Gantenbrink doesn't give the angle of the QCN shaft. He only measured the angles of the bottom two segments. His robot was unab
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Kanga
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keeperzz Wrote:
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> Calculation of the average angle of the KCN and
> KCS shafts by the known positions of the inlet
> (inside the chamber) and outlet for each shaft.
>
>
Don't use average angle for the KC shafts. Neither of them are straight lines. KCN has two slopes. It starts at point D with a 7:11 slope and c
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
keeperzz Wrote:
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> Hi Kanga,
>
> QuoteGantenbrink on QCN:
>
> "Based on 14 measurements made over a distance of
> 17 meters, the shaft's angle of ascent fluctuates
> between 33.3 degs and 40.1 degs. Block No. 4
> clearly shows that a change in the angle was made
> at this point."
>
&
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Kanga
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Gantenbrink on QCN:
"Based on 14 measurements made over a distance of 17 meters, the shaft's angle of ascent fluctuates between 33.3 degs and 40.1 degs. Block No. 4 clearly shows that a change in the angle was made at this point."
"Fluctuates" is an unfortunate choice of words. What he should have said was, "the angle changes, from 33.3 degs to 40.1 degs."
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
Mark Heaton Wrote:
> Problem no 14 in the MMP should, perhaps, have
> informed debates on the seked.
>
> My review and evaluation of problem no 14 is
> currently based on the papers of Thomas and Vetter
> (in JEA) as I haven't yet seen the papers by Gunn
> & Peet or Vogel which are referred to by Thomas
> and Vetter.
>
> I suppose problem no 1
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Kanga
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> The “Djedi” Robot Exploration of the Southern
> Shaft of the Queen's Chamber in the Great Pyramid
> of Giza, Egypt
> Robert Richardson Shaun Whitehead TC Ng Zahi
> Hawass Andrew Pickering Stephen Rhodes Ron
> Grieve Adrian Hildred Arjun Nagendran, Journal
> of Field Robotics 30(3), 323–348 (2013)
>
> (especially 342-347)
I'm not going to
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Kanga
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OK, I found the article at imhotep.net which gives the relevant data on QCN.
They say QCS has an average ascent of 39.6 degrees, while QCN has an average ascent of 36.7 degrees. Not much, but there it is. They cite Hawass, Whitehead et al., "First report: video survey of the southern shaft of the Queen's Chamber in the Great Pyramid," Annales du Service des Antiquite's
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
Gantenbrink's model is correct as a primary design. Going by the TOPS of the shafts, the shafts commence at the 84c level and SHOULD exit at the 154c level, producing a 70c x 70c model for KCS and a 70c x 110c model for KCN. Note that Brabin's drawing has the bottom of the shafts exiting at the 154c level, when in Gantenbrink's model it is the top of the shafts that should exit at
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
"Gantenbrink is in error . Petrie's analysis is the correct one.
We have enough information to reconstruct the course structure around these exit points to see what is going on. Courses 102, 103 and 104 have thicknesses of 9p, 10p and 9p respectively. Courses 101 and 104 have elevations (at their tops) in whole cubits of 150c and 154c respectively. This makes the elevations of the fo
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
keeperzz Wrote:
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> By the way, how do you explain the discrepancy
> between Gantenbrink's numerical data and his
> cyberdrawings?
>
> On "The Findings" page
> ,
> he writes: As we verified in 1992, the upper
> southern shaft emerges on the exterior at
> the 101st layer, the upper norther
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Kanga
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robin cook Wrote:
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> And why has no useful information emerged from the
> much vaunted 'Djedi' project? Those involved would
> surely have had contact with Gantenbrink. But so
> far, as with all bureaucracies, 'it's crickets'.
The Project Djedi information was published in an Egyptological journa
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Kanga
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keeperzz Wrote:
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> Gantenbrink could of course measure something
> outside the pyramid, but I don't see any detailed
> information about this. How did he measure the
> elevation of the courses? How did he calculate the
> original casing, if there is no data on the
> horizontal distances from the outlets to the
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
keeperzz Wrote:
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These are not the data given by Petrie. He gives the exit height of KCS as the top of course 103 and the exit height of KCN as the top of course 102.
We've been over this before.
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
Quoting myself:
"The final portion of KCN appears to have a seked of 11½ palms (31.3°), and points to the upper culmination of Thuban in 2552 BCE, while the final portion of KCS appears to have a seked of 7 palms (45°), and points to the upper culmination of Al Nilam, also in 2552 BCE. This date falls within the range of dates accepted by Egyptologists for this pyramid."
Al Ni
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
Imhotep's name was also found in a graffito on the enclosure wall surrounding Sekhemkhet's pyramid, so it is believed he designed that pyramid as well.
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
This is one of the worst articles ever to have appeared on academia.edu.
Did you get to the part where he figures out that the images of the block at the end of the QCN shaft are a forgery made from the lid of a pizza box?
After that accusation the article takes a bizarre turn. He then goes on to proclaim that the 19th century writers like Taylor and Smyth were right, that the Great Pyrami
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
Any design model for the Bent pyramid must take into account the length of the bend line. With the upper part having a height of 110 cubits and the slope 14:15, the bend line is 235c 5p. Note that this is not a whole number of cubits.
The data you give for the lower part supports the thesis that it has a uniform slope of 10:7. Miatello, following on from Legon's model (where the 110c hei
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
In my view the base is 201.6 cubits and the slope is 5:4. This creates a whole cubit height of 126 cubits, the same as the height of the 154c level pyramid within Khufu's pyramid. Also the 154c elevation in Khufu's pyramid is used as the base length for Niuserre's pyramid.
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
keeperzz Wrote:
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> The angle of slope of one of the Bent pyramid's
> sections is most likely due to geometric reasons:
> it is chosen so that the length of the lower slope
> is equal to the height of the upper section.
It's the other way around. The height of the upper section (110c) is chosen so that it is eq
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Kanga
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keeperzz Wrote:
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> Hi Kanga,
>
> What is 280c diagonal? Could you create simple drawing?
>
> Alex.
Sorry, I don't know how to post an image.
Just know this. At the 154c level (top of course 104), the horizontal length is 198c cubits. The square at this level has a diagonal of 198c x rt2 = 280c. That is, they
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
keeperzz Wrote:
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> Hi, Graham.
>
> Your idea about that the dual-slope design is
> symbolically connected with the two Enneads (the
> Great (9) and the Lesser (11)) is interesting.
>
> Is there any reliable evidence that Lesser Ennead
> could contain 11 deities? How was it
> pictographically pictured?
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Kanga
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Ancient Egypt
GChase Wrote:
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> Alex : "There are three puzzling points
> regarding the Bent pyramid:
> 1. Why did the builders change the angle of slope
> (due to structural problems or for geometric
> reasons)? The key point here is the reason for the
> presence of a dislocation in the N. corridor."
>
> As no-on
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Kanga
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