Great Pyramid Mystery Solved? | National Geographic

jean-pierre approached the mystery of the Great Pyramid with an architect's eye working from the most detailed architectural plans ever drawn of the Great Pyramid slowly his theory began to evolve as the years passed unnoticed by Egyptologists he came to know the my new details of the pyramid like no one else on earth the $64,000 question is how do you raise blocks all the way to the top of a four hundred and eighty foot pyramid we saw that there were real problems with either a single ramp or a spiral ramp and lifting cranes certainly don't do the job so how do you do it that's the problem John Pierre has been tackling for all these years his solution still has around but it's inside the pyramid and incredibly according to Jean Pierre it's been hidden there for 4,500 years he calculated that the slope of this ramp had to be about 7% so the men could hole the blocks up it he also figured the ramp would have to start at the base of the pyramid and go upwards as the pyramid grew it's not as easy as it sounds remember the pyramid is not solid inside the Great Pyramid are three large chambers the lowest one is called the Queen's Chamber above it is a mysterious room called the Grand Gallery and on top of all that is the Kings burial chamber all three chambers are connected by passageways is it possible to have a ramp snaking up through the pyramid that doesn't run into one of these chambers or passageways as he began building his computer model he could see the ramp just ten feet inside the smooth outer surface of the pyramid turning level after level all the way to the top of the pyramid kind of like a ramp in a parking garage amazingly jean-pierre ramp never hit any of the chambers of passageways inside the Great Pyramid for the first time in history a structural 3d model of the Great Pyramid had been built to test a theory jean-pierre knew the internal ramp was a real possibility but he still had problems to solve how to turn the blocks around the corners of the ramp you see the men hauling the blocks need a place to stand in front of the blocks when they reached the end of the straightaway on the ramp where can they stand to pull the block jean-pierre solution is to leave the corners open at the end of each length of the ramp a notch about 30 feet square would have been left open this notch let in light and fresh air but it had an even more important function stationed at each corner was a crane that would lift and position the block so it could travel up the next flight of the ramp these cranes could be the machines that Herodotus was talking about but like any good detective story we've been saving the best for last if jean-pierre is right about the internal ramp the French team should have detected it in their 1980s hi-tech survey in the French team's published report there is no diagram of an internal ramp it looks like jean-pierre is wrong surely a study this sophisticated would have found evidence of something as large as an internal ramp but 15 years after the study jean-pierre was asked to meet a member of the French team who said he had some very good news for him dr. bleep had heard about John PS theory and wanted to show him something a diagram that the French didn't fully understand so they never published it Wow see Takayama this computer print death shows a low-density spiral shape inside the Great Pyramid it's amazingly close to Jean Pia's drawing of the internal ramp so years before Jean Pierre's theory the French may have found evidence of an internal ramp inside the Great Pyramid

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Length: 4min 50sec (290 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 31 2008