Pyramidiots

Pyramidiots

Conventional archaeology explains the Great Pyramid thus.

Thousands of workers built the monolith in twenty-five years or less with copper tools, four thousand five hundred years ago. However, there is no proof of this, nor even evidence to suggest this is even possible.

Why are Egyptologists so quick to dismiss any further discussion on the age and method of constructing the pyramids? Do you believe the official story? Of the method of construction and the timeline? Do you believe we know all there is to know regarding this fantastic construction?

Without an open mind and a fresh look, we will never truly know all there is to know about this beautiful construction and rewrite history.

Standing at 146.6 metres tall, weighing approximately 6 million tonnes with a footprint of 13 acres and comprising some 2.3 million heterogenous stone blocks, the Great Pyramid of Giza has baffled generations for many centuries. The Pyramid is considered one of the original seven wonders of the world and the only one still standing in present times. It is said to have been constructed over a period of 20 years and is considered to have been built as a tomb for The Pharaoh Khufu. If we consider workers working in 12-hour shifts, that translates to one enormous stone block, quarried, transported and laid approximately every 2.5 minutes. Moreover, the building is constructed with precision and accuracy, which far outstrip modern tolerances, a fact that perplexes structural engineers and architects alike. 

There are many theories regarding the construction and purpose of the Great Pyramid, but Egyptologists are clear on one thing; although there is no proof of the methods used when building this behemoth, it is blasphemy to question the rhetoric that the Pyramid was built using only copper saws and copper chisels struck with mallets fashioned from river cobbles. Unthinkable, unspeakable heresy. 

Copper has a hardness value of 3 on the Mohs' scale, representing the relative hardness of materials on a scale of 1 – 10 with higher values assigned to harder materials. The granite used to form some structures within the Great Pyramid is typically rated between 6 – 8 on the Mohs' scale, depending upon the composition of the stone. Cutting granite with copper is comparable to cutting diamond with opal or quartz with chalk. We are asked to believe that granite blocks were cut to fit together so precisely that a single sheet of paper cannot be inserted between them using tools that could not scratch the surface of the stone.

Zahi Hawass, former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs of Egypt and well known Egyptologist, was for many years a sort of gatekeeper to those wishing to study the ancient constructions of Egypt. He first coined the phrase "Pyramidiots" to describe anyone who disagrees with or even questions some of the grand assumptions of Egyptology. Pyramidiocy could be anything from suggesting that copper chisels and saws seem unable to have cut with such perfect precision the granite found in several chambers. It could also indicate that the builders might have had some technologies more advanced than previously considered available. Questioning the proposed age, the timescale for building or the methods for transporting the stones from the Aswan quarry some 600 miles away without wheels; also fine examples of Pyramidiocy. 

Heaven forbid pointing out the Elephant in the room or the tomb in this case. To date, no bodies, mummified or otherwise, have been removed from the Great Pyramid. No elaborate treasures, no significant artefacts of any sort. This is not the case in the many obvious tombs discovered in the valley of Kings elsewhere in Egypt. These burial chambers were elaborately internally decorated with stunning hieroglyphs, often depicting the lives of those buried within. They were filled with fantastic grave goods, items intended for use in the afterlife by the deceased buried with them. Last but by no means least, they found bodies, mummies, in this case, confirming that these were, in fact, tombs.  

We attribute the Great Pyramid to Khufu based on two sources. Firstly, the writings of ancient Greece attribute its building to him. Secondly, above the Kings chamber, on the back of a massive granite slab, a small painting can be found, daubed in red paint, hidden from sight in an area only accessible due to a tunnel having been bored for exploration at the start of the 19th century. The "King's chamber" is so named for the large stone box it contains, said to have been the sarcophagus of Khufu by some though even this is debated by Egyptologists. The painting, approximately the size of a football, is supposedly the only indication made by the builders in 6 million tonnes of stone to suggest that this is Khufu's tomb. The "cartouche" was discovered by Howard Vyse, and although it is seen by many as conclusive evidence that the Pyramid is indeed the final resting place of the great Pharaoh, some have considered that Vyse himself may have planted the inscription to claim the discovery. It would be wise to point out that the Pyramid has graffiti throughout, some dating from modern times, some in Ancient Latin and Greek. 

Conventional Egyptology ignores many of these most fundamental questions of how and why, and when. The explanations given are often based on suppositions and speculation, which later becomes accepted as fact. William Flinders Petrie first went to Egypt in 1880 to study the Great Pyramid. He spent the next 5 decades of his life as one of the foremost authorities on Egyptian archaeology. In his time at the Giza plateaux, Petrie observed many anomalies in the explanations put forth for some of the artefacts and monuments. For example, he identified that the copper chisels and saws supposed to have been the only tools available to the ancient builders were insufficient to cut and shape even the most basic of the work in the hard granite stones. Petrie described cut and drill marks in solid granite around the Giza plateaux and in many of the objects found in some of the smaller tombs and pyramids he felt could only have been made using technology similar to a modern lathe. Modern Egyptologists scoff at these assertions because the Ancient Egyptians were not thought to have yet discovered the wheel at the time of Khufu's Pyramid. Yet, in his day, Petrie was considered to be an authority in the matter, and his speculations at the time were not faced with the same scorn as those espousing his ideas today.

Regardless of the tools used, the time taken, or the reason for its construction, one thing can be said for certain of the Great Pyramid. Unless the Egyptologists become willing to open the debate to the broader floor and allow for new methods and new theories to be explored, the truth is likely to share the fate of Khufu himself. Undiscovered and untold, shrouded in the mists of time for all eternity, and THAT is indeed Pyramidiocy.