Rowina (9 March 2012)
"Strange item on the Pyramid of Gizeh, to Marilyn"


 
Thanks for the great article on the Pyramid of Giza.

One construction item about the Pyramid came to light recently.  Scientists have been inside it, and sent a robot camera up one of the shafts from the King's Chamber.
They wanted to see what was at the end of the shaft, which is too small for a human to enter.  At the end of the shaft was a door, but the tiny robot was able to pass through a hole in the door to see a little beyond, and what they saw in there was some human writings.  The scientists speculated on what these ancient symbols meant, and thought they probably were construction workers' markings, which sounds plausible, until....you try to figure out how the construction workers got into that tiny space?  Now there's a real puzzle.  

I suppose someone may have an answer, that the area behind that little door was built first, before the blocks were put in place around it.  I can't even start to imagine how they would do that, but maybe someone can.  The shaft would have to be free-standing if built first, including the area behind the door.  Or it would have to have only the blocks beneath it built first, not the blocks on top of it, but this would take even more incredible engineering....I suppose to carve the shaft as a "ramp" going up the lower stones at an angle to them.  But then the builders would have to fit the blocks on top of the ramp by carving a matching depression in them before setting them in place.

The whole pyramid thing is just too amazing.  You think, Marilyn, maybe giants did it.  Well, maybe!  Maybe God Himself built it.  Or maybe they had some really small midgets.  Giants and midgets.  Good grief!