3 Feb 2010, Comments (0)

The Internal Ramp Goes Public

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In academia, ideas are constantly being tested, first at conferences and later by publication. This is when you really know if what you are proposing works. Because Jean-Pierre is an architect, not an academic, his ideas didn’t take this route. One of the first things I noticed when he gave me some of his writings to read is that there were no references. Normally when you tackle a problem, you survey the literature, read everything on the subject you can find, and list your sources. You don’t want to reinvent the wheel. Jean-Pierre just sat down at the computer and started working, which put him at a disadvantage. He had not published the details of his theory nor had he had serious discussions with those qualified to evaluate the theory.52 Some of his earlier informal talks to engineers had created a buzz about the theory and now his father’s professional organization, the Société des Ingénieurs des Arts et Métiers, wanted Jean-Pierre to give a talk. It was the perfect chance to test the waters. The civil engineers would give him needed feedback on the theory but they would be a friendly audience.

The hour lecture went well. There were some questions about details, but no one had any serious objections to the theory, or at least they didn’t mention any. In the audience was the former manager of Peugeot/Citroën who had been in charge of digital designing and manufacturing. He understood how heroic Jean-Pierre’s solitary effort at digitally reconstructing the Great Pyramid was, and he was equally impressed with the theory itself. He thought it was correct. He was familiar with Dassault Systèmes’ software and thought that if Jean-Pierre had access to their programs he could take his simulations to another level. Dassault Group is a multibillion-dollar corporation founded by Marcel Dassault, father of the famous the Mirage jet. One of their divisions, Dassault Systèmes, designs 3-D engineering software. Without telling Jean-Pierre, he called Dassault Systèmes and told them about this obsessed genius in a studio apartment in Paris who seemed to have solved the riddle of the Great Pyramid on his computer

3 Feb 2010, Comments (0)

The Capstone

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The last major engineering task was the positioning of the capstone, basically a small pyramid, on the very top of the Pyramid. The pyramidion, as it is called, was made of fine limestone and probably covered with electrum, an alloy of gold and silver, and might have weighed as much as fifteen tons.48 We don’t know the details of how it was raised, but it certainly would have required advance planning because it is too large to be moved through the cramped internal ramp. After weeks on the computer, Jean-Pierre figured out a possible
scenario for the capstone’s movements. During the fourteenth year of Khufu’s reign, the pyramidion and
the beams and rafters for the King’s Chamber were pulled up the exterior ramp to the top of the Pyramid, which was now 150 feet high.

For the next five years the capstone moved upward, course by course, as the Pyramid was being built. It could have been suspended in a wooden pyramid-shaped cradle. The ropes holding the capstone could
be twisted, much the same way children twist the chains supporting swings. As the ropes twisted, they shortened, and the capstone was raised a bit. Wedges were slid under the capstone, and using wedges,
the cradle was raised the same height.

2 Feb 2010, Comments (0)

The Time Machine to Hemienu

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The 3-D simulation of the Great Pyramid’s construction was a great achievement. It presented Jean-Pierre’s internal ramp theory and, to a limited extent, validated it. However, the newly formed trio of Jean-Pierre, ichard, and Mehdi wanted to go even further. They wanted something absolute y certain, “an Egyptological
breakthrough that no one could dispute.” They decided to tackle the problem of the cracks in the King’s Chamber. Until the trio focused their resources on the cracks, this was far from established. For more than a century Egyptologists were not sure when the beams cracked. They could have cracked centuries after the Pyramid was built, perhaps during an earthquake. Now, using yet another Dassault Systèmes program, SIMULIA, they would act like forensic engineers to determine exactly what caused the cracks.

SIMULIA is used by many airplane and carmakers to test the strength of their products: wings and hulls before planes fly, crash tests for cars, and so on. They would treat the Great Pyramid like a construction disaster and “back engineer” what had happened. Their construction forensics required three steps. First, they needed a geometric modeling, a re-creation in three dimensions, of the Great Pyramid. They had used the plans drawn by the French Opération Khéops team in 1986, which were the most detailed ever produced.55 But a geometric model isn’t enough to simulate physical events. All it can give you is the shape, the geometry of the construction. To re-create an event such as cracking of the beams you also need the physical characteristics of the materials used in the Pyramid. You need the weight of the materials, their elasticity, their texture. For this Jean-Pierre met with François Schlosser from Paris’s Bridges and Roads Laboratory, who was able to supply the specific parameters of the limestone and granite used in the Pyramid, which were entered into the computer.

The virtual Pyramid was becoming more and more detailed. The last feature needed was functional modeling. Jean-Pierre’s theory of how the Pyramid was built involves mechanical systems such as sleds and trolleys running on wooden rollers. The mechanical properties of these systems—friction generated by a block pulled on a sled, compression of a limestone rafter as it is levered into place—all had to be entered into the computer.

28 Jan 2010, Comments (0)

The Underground Burial Chamber

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During the first few years of building, all problems in the work plan were ironed out. Where the men would live, how they would be fed, and who would make up the various work gangs or teams were all decided. Tremendous social organization was needed, but such issues had been figured out during the construction of
the earlier pyramids. While the bedrock was still exposed, masons began carving out the descending passageway that led to the underground burial chamber.

This chamber was to be used only if Khufu died during the first ten years of construction. Because the descending passage was never intended for heavy traffic—just the pharaoh’s sarcophagus—it is rather small, just large enough for one person to walk around or move in hunched over. It must have been carved by a single master stonemason, as there is no room for two people to work in it. Of all the chambers and passages in the Great Pyramid, it is the most precise. An engineering marvel, the exactly cut rectangular tunnel descends 230 feet, pointing due north and never deviating by more than a quarter of an inch. At the early stages of the Pyramid’s construction when the subterranean chamber was being carved out, this passage served as the highway that daily brought the workers to their jobs underground. Once the descending passage was completed, a team of workers began carving out the burial chamber. At first only one man, working at the end of the passage, could carve the beginnings of the subterranean chamber into the bedrock. Then, when there was room for a coworker, a second mason joined him and they chipped away at the limestone until the small chamber could accommodate a third worker, and so it went until a team of more than a dozen were working there. Just as in all excavated tombs, they began at the ceiling and excavated downward, assisted by gravity. If you carved a tomb from the bottom up, you would always have to swing your mallet upward and fight gravity.

The men who excavated the underground chamber didn’t need great skills. They were really just roughing out the twenty-six-byforty- three-foot room. As they worked and the chips accumulated, even less skilled workers carried the chips in baskets up the descending passage to the surface. Later, more skilled craftsmen could put the finishing touches on the king’s burial chamber. But the skilled craftsmen
were never needed. As the Pyramid progressed the pharaoh was clearly in good health. Hemienu could now move on toward a burial chamber high up in the Pyramid.

19 Jan 2010, Comments (0)

Hemienu Plans the Great Pyramid

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It was a momentous day when Sneferu, king of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Great God, died sometime around 2590 b.c., but the date of his death and the details of the funeral of one of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs went unrecorded. This seems incredible to us, living in a society that wants every possible detail of Princess Diana’s death and is still debating how JFK died, but things were different in ancient Egypt. Death was a defeat and Egyptian scribes only recorded victories. History was not intended to record objective facts; it was to present the glories of a nation for others to see and wonder at. This leaves Egyptologists with the task of sifting through fragments of information to piece together the details of a pharaoh’s death.

For the reign of Sneferu, one of the most important fragments is the Palermo Stone, a chunk of black diorite in the Regional Museum of Archeology in Sicily. Originally the stone was more than six feet long, and inscribed on its polished surface were the names and reigns of more than 200 kings of Egypt. The fragment in Palermo is only thirteen inches wide and ten inches long, but it lists the earliest pharaohs, including
Sneferu. It recounts the major events during the various kings’ reigns and from it we learn that Sneferu sent a trading expedition to Lebanon to obtain cedar for building boats and the doors of the great temples of Egypt.

It must have been a successful mission; forty ships laden with huge logs returned home to Egypt. Fragments like the Palermo Stone are the bits and pieces from which Egyptologists reconstruct ancient lives, but they don’t give us the exact date of a pharaoh’s death. There are two reasons for this. As we noted before, the Egyptians viewed death as a defeat, but they also had a unique calendar. The Egyptians didn’t number their years consecutively. Our year 2008 will be followed by 2009, but in ancient Egypt when a new king like Sneferu ascended the throne, the calendar began anew with: “Day 1, Year 1 in the reign of Sneferu.” The only reason we know Sneferu died in 2590 b.c. is that a few events such as total solar eclipses mentioned in ancient Egyptian records can be dated accurately in terms of our calendar. Let’s say that an ancient Egyptian papyrus written during the reign of Ramses the Great mentions that a solar eclipse took place. Using our calendar, astronomers calculate exactly when the solar eclipse took place and then Egyptologists count backward to get dates for reigns of the earlier kings. Based on evidence like this, our best bet for Sneferu’s death is 2590 b.c. We can be sure, however, that when Sneferu died, all of Egypt
mourned. Under his rule Egypt became an international power, sending trading expeditions to Lebanon for cedar and to the Sinai for turquoise and copper. Sneferu ushered in the era of the great pyramids, but there
is another reason to believe Egypt mourned his passing. It is recorded on the Westcar Papyrus, located in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. Before the Egyptians invented papyrus, writing was done on clay
tablets. After being inscribed, the damp clay tablets were baked in a kiln to be preserved. It was an expensive and tedious process to form a tablet out of clay, inscribe it with a stylus, and then bake it. Sending
letters abroad was not easy; great care had to be taken that the tablets didn’t crumble and break. The Mesopotamians even had special envelopes, also baked, to protect them.

The invention of papyrus (from which we get our word “paper”) created a literary boom. All of a sudden, writing was easy. Sheets of paper made from strips of the papyrus plant were glued together in long rolls that could be written on with a brush. No more baking of tablets, no problem transporting the writings—the publishing industry took off. The Egyptians wrote everything on papyrus, religious texts, battle accounts, magical spells,even fiction. The Westcar Papyrus, named after its owner, contains a series of magical stories told by Sneferu’s grandson, Prince Bauefre, the Stephen King of ancient Egypt .

14 Jan 2010, Comments (0)

King of the Pyramids

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Imhotep’s great creation, the Step Pyramid of Saqqara, sparked a frenzy of construction in Egypt, and a nation of farmers became a nation of builders. It is even possible that Imhotep went on to design a second step pyramid for Zoser’s successor, King Sekhem- Khet, whose pyramid was discovered in the 1950s (see Appendix II). After building several step pyramids, Egypt would go on to erect even greater monuments—and one of the strangest of these is the Medium Pyramid.

The pyramid at Medium sits isolated in the desert about fifty miles south of Saqqara. Rarely visited by tourists, it is a crucial step in Egypt’s march toward the Great Pyramid. As soon as you see the Medium Pyramid you know something went wrong. Looking more like a medieval fortress than a pyramid, it seems almost sinister. In the 1960s, Kurt Mendelssohn, an Oxford University physicist, theorized that the walls
of the pyramid collapsed during construction because the angle of the pyramid was too steep.13 He believed the mound of sand at its base hid the top of the pyramid that came crashing down. However, recent
excavations of the mound show that the collapse theory is wrong; the mound consists primarily of windblown sand.

Egyptologists now agree that the reason for the pyramid’s ruinous state was that local villagers used it as a quarry for stone, stripping it of its fine white limestone casing. But there’s still a mystery. The pyramid was never used for the pharaoh’s burial, and no one knows why. There is a temple next to the pyramid where priests would have made offerings for the dead king. On top of the temple are two stelae— round-topped stones that served as ancient Egypt’s bulletin boards. If you wanted something known, you carved it on a stela and put it where everyone could see it. The two stelae at the Medium Pyramid should have the king’s name and titles, but they are totally blank; they were never inscribed—a dead giveaway that the king never used the pyramid. The unfinished burial chamber inside the pyramid offers another clue that the pyramid was never used, but within it rests a milestone in the history of pyramid building.

The burial chamber inside the Medium Pyramid is the first above ground burial in Egypt, a radical break from the underground burial chamber concept of the Step Pyramid. The owner of the Medium Pyramid
was going to be buried in the pyramid, not under it. To be buried inside a pyramid, a major engineering problem had to be solved. If the burial chamber is inside the pyramid, then the ceiling of the chamber must support the hundreds of thousands of tons above it. Constructing a room inside a pyramid had never been tried before and the architect of the Medium Pyramid came up with an ingenious solution—a cor belled
ceiling. With a cor belled ceiling, the walls narrow as they get higher. As you build the wall out of stone blocks, each level is placed about six inches in from the one beneath it, so it overlaps and looks like an upside-down staircase. Thus, when you get to the top, the block spanning the walls and forming the ceiling is only a few inches wide. A block only a few inches wide is not going to crack under the weight above it, thus the problem of how to build an internal room is solved.

2 Jan 2010, Comments (0)

Is there any Biblical mention of the Pyramid?

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The Bible does not mention the Great Pyramid of Egypt although it did exist long before Israel came into Egypt and was there when Joseph and Mary brought the Messiah into Egypt at His birth (Matt. 2:13). In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s the Great Pyramid was a hot topic. Many theologians began to look for scriptures within the Bible that might show its existence in symbolic form. Clarence Larkin in his book Dispensational Truth (© 1918 Rev. Clarence Larkin Est.) asked the following questions about the purpose of the Great Pyramid. “Could it be that the Great Pyramid was built for the purpose of embodying in its construction not only mathematical and astronomical knowledge, but also chronological and scriptural knowledge?” The scripture he used is Isaiah 19:19-20: “In that day shall there be an altar to Yahweh (the LORD) in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Yahweh (the LORD). And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Yahweh (the LORD) of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto Yahweh (the LORD) because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.” Mr. Larkin believes that this scripture has yet to be fulfilled and points to the Great Pyramid. He believes the Great Pyramid was the pillar and altar that Isaiah referred to. He goes on to point out the correlation between the Great Pyramid and the Messiah. Not having the pattern to interpret the Scriptures leads to this erroneous interpretation of the scriptures. Space is not available for a full explanation of this scripture. However, the Great Pyramid is neither the altar nor the pillar in Egypt that Isaiah is referring to for two reasons. First, the Great Pyramid was already built at the time of Isaiah, which was about 780 years before the birth of the Messiah. Second, Isaiah is prophesying about what is about to happen to various Gentiles nations, which had nothing to do with the Great Pyramid. Using the tabernacle pattern, the brazen altar was in the Court Round About which symbolically represents the land of Egypt. The cross the Messiah was crucified on fulfilled the altar in Egypt, as the door to the house of the Israelites in Egypt prefigured an altar. Four points of blood of the lamb or goat was placed upon their doors, as four points of blood was on the altar. The Apostle John referred to Jerusalem where the Messiah was crucified as Egypt. “And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified (Rev. 11:8).”

27 Dec 2009, Comments (0)

What was the purpose of the Great Pyramid?

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There are also many theories about the purpose of the Great Pyramid. Along with not being able to conclude absolutely who built the Great Pyramid, mankind also does not understand why it was built. Many believe that Pharaoh Cheops (or Khufu) built the Great Pyramid for his tomb around 3350 BC, because many of the other pyramids in the area have been found to be burial chambers for the various kings of Egypt. Now there are some that believe the Great Pyramid monument was a time capsule left by an advanced civilization. There may have been some cataclysm and leaders of this civilization wanted to leave a message to future civilizations. Others think it was some civil service project. In Peter Lemesurier’s book The Great Pyramid Decoded, he states the Great Pyramid is a sign by Elohim. He writes: “the Great Pyramid contains a detailed prophecy in mathematical code—a prophecy whose main purpose appears to be the validating of just such a redemptive or Messianic plan for mankind as appears to have been outlined by Jesus of Nazareth (p. 155).”

24 Dec 2009, Comments (0)

Could aliens from another planet have built the Great Pyramid?

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There are some that believe UFOs built the Great Pyramid. Now Von Danikien in his book Chariot of the Gods put forth this hypothesis. He states that beings from another planet had advanced technology to perform this task. There is absolutely no proof for this theory. Part Two of this article on the Great Pyramid will show that the Great Pyramid is a tool for prophecy. The inner passageways and chambers explain the future of man, especially the coming of the Messiah. If one supposes that aliens from another planet built the Great Pyramid and accepts the fact that the Great Pyramid prophesied of future events, the question remains of how did they know about future events on earth. Now the only way that these measurements could prophesy of the future is that the designer had to have precise knowledge of the future. Isaiah wrote: “Remember the former things of old: for I am Elohim (God), and there is none else; I am Elohim (God), and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done… (Isa. 46:9-10).” Thus, Elohim had to be the designer and/or architect of this structure, for no man or alien (ET) from another planet could know the future in advance.

17 Dec 2009, Comments (0)

Who built the Great Pyramid?

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One of the enigmas about the Great Pyramid is who built it. There are many theories, but certain factors have to be taken into consideration in answering this question. For example, the astronomical calculations found on the Great Pyramid determine that is was literally impossible for the Egyptians to have designed it. Quoting Max Toth’s book points out his fact. “Nonetheless, Egyptians are thought to have been exceedingly backward in astrology; their meteorology and division of the seasons in their system has convinced researchers that no true system of cosmology could have originated among them. These researchers indicate that Egyptian astronomy was primitive (p. 192).” Clearly, this shows that the Great Pyramid may be in Egypt, but it does not mean the Egyptians or any other humans designed. Simply put, the knowledge displayed in the Great Pyramid is too advanced for humans of this time. Thus, this means that if the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid they had to get the design from some source. Using the Bible as a model, we see that Yahweh Elohim gave mankind many structures to build. For example, Elohim gave Israel the specifications to build the tabernacle (Ex. 25:40), Solomon’s and Zerruabbel’s Temple (I Chron. 28:18-19). Israel was not the first people that Elohim instructed to build something. Noah was given instructions to build the ark (Gen. 6:13-16, 22). When Israel came across the River Jordan into the Promised Land, Joshua the Son of Nun made Israel erect two sets of 12 stones as a sign that the Ark of the Covenant divided the river (Jos. 4th chp.) Some believe that Elohim (God) designed and built the Great Pyramid structure, but there is little proof to support this hypothesis. The Bible shows that Elohim always gave man designs for the structures He wanted them to build and it was always man that built them to His specification.

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