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Great Pyramid Was Built Inside Out, Frenchman Says

Posted March 31, 2007 5:39 PM

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PARIS (Reuters) - A French architect said on Friday he had cracked a 4,500-year-old mystery surrounding Egypt's Great Pyramid, saying it was built from the inside out. Previous theories have suggested Pharaoh Khufu's tomb, the last surviving example of the seven great wonders of antiquity, was built using either a vast frontal ramp or a ramp in a corkscrew shape around the exterior to haul up the stonework. But flouting previous wisdom, Jean-Pierre Houdin said advanced 3D technology had shown the main ramp which was used to haul the massive stones to the apex was contained 10-15 meters beneath the outer skin, tracing a pyramid within a pyramid. This is better than the other theories, because it is the only theory that works," Houdin told Reuters after unveiling his hypothesis in a lavish ceremony using 3D computer simulation. To prove his case, Houdin teamed up with a French company that builds 3D models for auto and airplane design, Dassault Systemes, which put 14 engineers for 2 years on the project.

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04/02/2007 12:21 AM

I don't buy it. Five years ago this same guy released the results of a similar study claiming that the world's largest skyscrapers:


were built from the ground up.

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04/02/2007 5:43 AM

I'm going for the 100,000 blokes on bonus and double bubble at weekends scenario. Well, it was a government job, after all.

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04/02/2007 9:11 AM

"...And I was always under the impression that these skyscrapers were built from the antennae down."

There are fifty ways to leave your lover and many different ways to get things done. Here's another example:

Two elderly women friend meet at the coffee shop for their weekly chit-chat. One is having a beautiful brand new fur coat. "Where did you get that?" the other one asks. "Well What can I tell you, last week I have met an old army general, he gave a thousand Dollars, and I bought it". A week later, they meet again, and the other also has a brand new fur coat. "And how did YOU get that?" asks the first. "Well what can I tell you, Last week I have met a thousand young soldiers, each one of them gave me a Dollar, and this is how I bought it."

You see? my friend, same goal different ways, Although the basic principal is always the same.

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04/02/2007 9:32 AM

As some prostitutes reason , shag 1 bloke a thousand times or shag 1000 blokes a single times . Whats the difference.

Incidentally , I thought building from the base up was the new big deal in Skyscrapers.

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04/02/2007 2:47 PM

No, rely, it does make sense to build from ground up.

It proves a point when you look at: http://www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/20070330.WWW000000504_les_mysteres_de_la_grande_pyramide_reveles_par_la_d.html

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04/02/2007 7:03 PM

I still don't buy it.

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04/03/2007 2:59 AM

Neither do I, He seems to be applying modern business values on to the building project and using this as justification. We have no evidence that the Egyptians were concerned with deadlines or work efficiency, their motives were entirely different to todays. They are not producing a commodity here. (Or if they did, delivery could be late!) I have seen NO evidence of a work study chiselled on the rocks out there. (P.S. If this suddenly enables someone to decipher a previously unknown hieroglyphic sequence, I want credit!)

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04/03/2007 4:34 AM

The above item appeared in the British Museum for 8 days

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04/03/2007 11:33 PM

You put down the inner stones, and then you put down the outer stones. That's building from the inside out, right?

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04/02/2007 6:50 AM

The theory is interesting because it is based on an engineering peinciple "being efficient". It seems logical to use what was buid to buid further. The ramps as they were suggested were "additonnal" so that they required supl. work.

It has to be still more analysed but it is more accepyable than other.

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04/02/2007 7:14 AM

To prove his case, Houdin teamed up with a French company that builds 3D models for auto and airplane design, Dassault Systemes, which put 14 engineers for 2 years on the project.

So , he had a hypothesis and Dassault Systems gave him a nice image of it. ??Who is leading who.

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04/02/2007 8:13 AM

Hi nighthawk. If this Frenchman was to construct a pyramid in the way he suggeted it was done 4,500 years ago I would maybe beleive him, until he does it is just another theory. So, I challenge this Frenchman to prove what he says? Spencer.

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