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Anyone who pokes around on the pyramid plateau will notice layers of stone with various deposits on them. It is hard to avoid the impression that water must have stood here at some point. That relates to walls and rock sections which tourists never get to see, but also the ramps. It is particularly visible in the Valley of the Crows below the pyramids, but also on the section up to the pyramid of Chefren. Water rings are also visible on the so-called fourth pyramid, which is not accessible for tourists. (Images 130–147) Now this land positively did not lie under water in the Fourth Dynasty—otherwise Cheops would not have been able to plant his building there at all. (Always assuming he did so.) “Land submerged” would, however, fit very well with Enoch; after all, he lived before the Flood. Irritatingly, the pyramid of Cheops’ father, Sneferu, looks like a pile of rubble from the outside. The stones have been worn away by wind and sand over thousands of years, the experts assure us. But the wind blows more strongly from some directions than from others. The traces of the erosion should vary, depending on where on the pyramid it occurred. But they don’t. (Image 148)
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If the Cheops pyramid had been built before the Flood, it would have been submerged just like the (alleged) Sneferu pyramid. Where are the watermarks with Cheops? Salt crystals, for which there is no explanation, were found in some places inside the pyramid—for example, the ceiling of the “uppermost relief chamber is covered in incredibly large salt crystals.”30 The diligent Alireza Zarei has provided the photographic evidence. (Image 149) But if the Cheops pyramid had ever stood in water, should the traces of erosion not be visible just as much on the outside as with Sneferu’s pyramid?
Consider this: Originally the Great Pyramid was covered with slabs. They were only broken off after Al-Mamun. These pyramid slabs—nicely cut to size—were used for parts of Cairo’s city walls, mosques, and government buildings.
In the summer of 1986, the two French architects Jean-Patrice Dormion and Gilles Goidin discovered hollow spaces in the Cheops pyramid with their electronic detectors. With the assistance of the Ministry of State of Antiquities, microprobes were driven through stones 2.5 meters thick. Under the Queen’s Chamber (Images 150–151), the Frenchmen came upon a 3-meter-wide and 5.5-meter-high cavity filled with crystalline sand. What was the original purpose of this passageway?
Alerted by the success of the Frenchmen, the Japanese from Waseda University in Tokyo were not to be outdone. On January 22, 1987, a top team began its research into the Great Pyramid. Electronic measurements located various spaces and chambers inside the pyramid. The scientific report from Waseda University even refers to “a whole labyrinth” of passageways.31
In 1992, the geologist Dr. Robert M. Schoch from the College of General Studies of Boston University carried out geological measurements on the Sphinx together with Dr. Thomas L. Dobecki and other scientists. The result: the Sphinx is at least 5,000 years older than previously assumed.32
On March 22, 1993, at precisely 11:05 in the morning, the German engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink, with his robot “Upuaut,” discovered a small door with two metal fittings inside the Great Pyramid. The discovery was made after a trip of about 60 meters, starting from the Queen’s Chamber in an ascending direction inside the edifice. Gantenbrink’s robot was a 6-kilogram tracked vehicle only 37 centimeters in length. This technical miracle was driven by seven independent electric motors. Two small halogen spotlights and a swivelling and tilting Sony CCD mini video camera were attached to the front. (Images 152–153) The attempt was made at the time to deny Rudolf Gantenbrink’s sensational discovery. People waffled about “soul shafts,”33 “complete rubbish,”34 and even a “delusion.”35 After its 60-meter trip, Rudolf Gantenbrink’s robot had come to a halt in front of a small door. What lay behind that door? (Image 154)
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A new robot, this one built by the National Geographic Society in the United States, drilled a hole through the little door. A camera was pushed through. It revealed another blocking stone, or little door, 20 centimeters further on.
Another robot, which the designers named “Djedi,” with different abilities was required. A long arm was to reach through the hole created by National Geographic and drill through the “blocking stone” behind. On May 29, 2011 Spiegel Online reported: “A research robot has again driven into the mysterious shaft below the King’s Chamber in the Cheops pyramid—but this time equipped with a swiveling camera.”36 (Image 155)
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The magazine Mysteries, edited by the brilliant Swiss journalist Luc Bürgin, showed the pictures taken by the Djedi robot behind the blocking stone.37 A new chamber with smoothly polished stones was visible. Illegible red markings, two handles clearly made of metal and a perfectly round hole could be seen on a side wall. (Images 156-157) And that makes it increasingly hard to relate the pyramid to the Cheops from the Fourth Dynasty. The planning of all the spaces, passageways, and chambers can no longer be reconciled with the brains of the people from the Iron and Bronze Age. So far we know about the following hollow spaces within the Cheops pyramid:
• The entrance, 16.5 meters above the ground with the descending passageway.
• The intersection of the descending passageway and ascending passageway and the shaft into the depths to the “unfinished tomb.”
• The 119-meter-long shaft in the rock under the pyramid to the “unfinished tomb.”
• The “unfinished tomb” at a depth of 35 meters under the pyramid, 14.02 meters long and 8.25 meters wide.
• The 3.5 meter vertical shaft from the “unfinished tomb” even deeper into the rock.
• The 23-meter-long ascending passageway.
• The 47-meter-long and 8.5-meter-high Grand Gallery.
• The five so-called relief chambers.
• The 38.15-meter-long horizontal passage to the inner King’s Chamber.
• The 5.76-meter-long, 5.23-meter-wide, and 6.26-meter-high King’s Chamber.
• The 6.85-meter-long passage to the King’s Chamber.
• The 5.22-meter-wide, 10.47-meter-long, and 5.82-meter-high King’s Chamber.
• The sand-filled hollow spaces under the horizontal passage to the inner King’s Chamber (Dormion and Gilles).
• The 60-meter-long Gantenbrink shaft running upward at an angle from the King’s Chamber.
• Its unexplored counterpart running upwards at the same angle from the north side of the King’s Chamber.
• The newly discovered space behind the Gantenbrink shaft (Djedi).
• The shafts electronically located by the team from Waseda University, Tokyo.
If we do a rough calculation just of the length of the known shafts and spaces, and add the labyrinth of shafts and passageways located by the troupe from Waseda University, Tokyo, there should be about 1 kilometer of hollow space within the Great Pyramid. (Image 158) That does not take into account the volume (height, depth, and width) of the spaces. Impossible for the gents from the Bronze and Iron Age!
The Chefren pyramid is always excluded from this game. (Image 159) All the researchers throw themselves on Cheops, but Chefren also offers inexplicable phenomena. In the years 1968 and 1969 the Nobel Prize winner for physics, Dr. Louis Alvarez, undertook a radiation experiment in the Chefren pyramid. Alvarez and his team started from the known fact in physics that cosmic radiation bombards the earth around the clock. This radiation loses a fraction of its energy as it penetrates solid matter. Precise measurements can determine how many protons are not slowed down as much because they have passed through a hollow space. Using a spark chamber and an IBM
computer, Alvarez measured the tracks of more than 2.5 million particles. Yet the oscillographs showed a chaotic pattern, just as if particles were arcing around a corner. The very expensive experiment, in which various American institutes, IBM, and Cairo’s Ain Shams University participated, ended without a result. Dr. Amr Gohed, the head of archaeological research at the time, told journalists the findings were “scientifically impossible” and added that either “the structure of the pyramid is chaotic or there is a mystery which we cannot explain.”38
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Translation of terms
Entlastungskammer—Discharge chamber
Belüftungsschacht—Air shaft
Königskammer—King’s chamber
Königinnenkammer—Queen’s chamber
Gantenbrinkschaft—Gantenbrink shaft
Horizontaler Durchgang—Horizontal passage
Die Grotte—The grotto
Schacht der Diebe—Thief’s shaft
Unvollendete Grabkammer—Unfinished chamber
Grosse Gallerie—Grand gallery
Aufwährtsführender Gang—Ascending passageway passageway
Absteigender Gang—Descending passageway
Verschluss Blöcke—Closing blocks
Heutiger Eingang (gewaltsam aufgebrochen)—Today’s entry (broken up violently)
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Thus the curiosities are restricted not just to the Cheops pyramid; the Chefren pyramid also contains unsolved riddles. The chambers and passageways in the Chefren represent only a fraction of its interior life. (Images 160-162)
Back to the Cheops pyramid. It was not just a matter of piling one layer of stone on top of another and leaving a little gap here and there. Every single shaft, every passageway—just think of the 38-meter-long passage to the King’s chamber or the 47-meter-long Grand Gallery—was part of an exact plan which existed from the start of construction. (Image 163) The shaft under the pyramid, which leads to the unfinished tomb, alone is 119 meters long sloping downward through the rock at an angle (1.20 meters high and 1.06 meters wide, with an angle of inclination of 26° 31’ 23”). How, actually, was this shaft made? (Image 164) By digging, chiselling away, of course. The first worker of the column must have pushed the lumps of rock, laboriously quarried with soft copper or iron chisels, behind him like a mole so that his fellow workers could transport the rubble outside. Only a single man could have worked in the shaft with its height of 1.20 meters and width of 1.06 meters. There was no room beside or above him. The deeper the shaft descended, the darker it became. So torches, wax, oil lamps were required and with them went the last bit of oxygen. At some point the human voles reached the spot at which the subterranean chamber was to be created. So onward as before—with chisels and hammers. Light and air were probably superfluous in the depths. Perhaps the teams were working in the dark with radar and Albino eyes and were not bothered by the chunks of rock which thumped one or the other of them on the head every so often, squashed fingers or trapped feet. (Images 165–168) The spoil was carted to the surface on sledges, and presumably air was pumped into the caves full of stone dust with hoses made from animal intestines. Once the underground hall had been halfway excavated, the happy workers must have created the 15-meter-long, dead-end passage in the southwest corner just for the fun of it, which they then proceeded to line with polished blocks. As a parting gift, they dug a 3.5-meter-long hole in the ground, left the half-finished space behind, and began to line parts of the previously laboriously dug shaft with finely polished, massive blocks from Tura. More than 100 meters without the slightest deviation in inclination in a straight line upward. Hard to think that this subterranean work was carried out when the pyramid had already been built. Why not? Because the entrance to the 119-meter-long diagonal shaft starts in the pyramid. A contradiction? No. If the pyramid had already been standing when the excavations began, all the dirt would have had to be transported from the 119-meter-long shaft and the unfinished chamber (Images 169–170) into the pyramid. It would have had to be taken to the point where the ascending and descending passageways intersected and from there onwards to the actual entrance of the pyramid 16.5 meters above the ground. Hence I assume that the 119-meter-long passage and the “unfinished tomb” were excavated first and only then were the first layers of the pyramid laid down. Although even at this point, the structure would already have had to have been planned exactly because the 119-meter shaft leads precisely into the pyramid.
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I hear that the foreman changed during construction, or the pharaoh altered the plans on short notice. Excuse me? For as long as stones had to be quarried out of the rock down in the “unfinished tomb” and brought to the surface, the 119-meter shaft could not be lined with polished blocks from Tura. Even the first 10 meters of such a lining would have prevented the spoil from being transported away from the cavern lying beneath. There would have been no space—I did, after all, crawl down there—and the transport of the stones would have scratched the squeaky clean walls. Nothing like that can be seen, just as there are no wheel tracks or drag marks.
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And what was it all for? For a space 35 meters vertically below the pyramid which no one needed.
Every shaft, be it ever so small, every ceiling of pink granite from Aswan, every passageway to a chamber, every upright or horizontal monolith of different a size was a part of a plan which was finished and completed before the pyramid was built. Changes during construction were not possible. The 60-meter-long Gantenbrink shaft could not be added afterward. Just think of the little door at the end of the shaft that finally led to a chamber. I also read some fool suggesting that the Gantenbrink shaft had been chiselled out of the pyramid blocks after the building was already long completed. That makes someone like me crazy! The Gantenbrink shaft has a side length of precisely 14 centimeters. Not even a Lilliputian team would fit in there after the event.
This shaft ends in a chamber which was discovered by the Djedi robot. So it was planned in advance. Furthermore, the builders seem to have known that only a high-tech society would be able to reach this chamber—thanks to robots. Any previous society would have had to dismantle the whole pyramid from top to bottom in order to reach the “Djedi chamber.”
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The planning of the Great Pyramid—I deliberately exclude the Chefren pyramid—the calculations, drawings, the knowledge about material thickness, the engineering work as a whole, does not fit in any way into the society of the Fourth Dynasty. Sneferu, the father of Cheops, came straight out of the Stone Age. The Cheops generation could only just about master iron and copper. To suggest that they had precisely planned the pyramid with its chambers, passageways, shafts, and different types and sizes of stone before building began makes about as much sense as a hippopotamus on the moon. The monoliths used inside the pyramid are of different lengths and widths, have different qualities and colors, depending on where they were used. The pink granite in the King’s Chamber comes from Aswan, almost 1,000 miles away from the building site. Did they send sprinters to Aswan when a monolith crumbled and had to be replaced? And—please note—work was going on in the Fourth Dynasty at several building sites simultaneously. Monoliths were polished, quarried from the rock, transported on rafts and by cable haulage, and inserted in the right spot. This Fourth Dynasty may have done all kinds of things—but planning a pyramid with its complex inner life was beyond their capacities. This definitely does not fit into the evolution of technology as it applied to Mr. Cheops’ Fourth Dynasty. And such a statement can only be made today, now that we know about some of the confusing advanced technology inside the pyramid.
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Every structure before Cheops should be even more primitive from a technical and planning perspective—so says evolution. Does that rule out any builder before Cheops?
Saurid (alias Enoch) is said to have built this miracle of
construction before the Flood, ancient Arab historians claim. Why? To protect the all the knowledge of humankind from the Flood. The Hitat puts it like this:
Thereupon he [the builder] had 30 vaults built in the western pyramid made of colored granite. They were filled with devices and ornamented columns made of precious gems, with equipment made of excellent iron such as weapons which did not rust, with glass which can be folded without breaking, with strange talismans.... In the eastern pyramid he had the different celestial vaults and planets represented and pictures made of what his ancestors had created; in addition there was incense which was offered up to the stars and books about them. Also to be found there are the fixed stars and what arises in their periods from time to time.... Neither was there any science which he did not have written down and recorded. He further had transported there the treasures of the stars as well as the treasures of the prophets, and they formed a mighty and uncountable quantity....39
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