If you have not yet learned about the new theory, it is found on YouTube at a channel called The Great Pyramids Equation. Most of the films there are in Russian but there are four very interesting films in English.
They appeared over the past 6 months in the following order.
The first two films are parts one and two of a treatment of the Great Pyramid at Giza, built for Khufu, or Cheops as the Greeks knew him. The third film is Part 1 of a treatment of all of the pyramids, from the Step Pyramid forward. The author also addresses the construction of large mastabas. He sees similarities in the shafts of mastabas and pyramids and offers the hypothesis that the shafts served either as counterweight movement corridors, or else as routes for builders to use in the building process.
The fourth film above might be the best, and its ideas are entirely independent of the ideas about counterweight systems presented in the first video. The fourth video argues that the spaces inside the pyramids are built in such a way as to drain water from the work site while the pyramid is under construction. This idea alone seems tremendously valuable, regardless of the value of the counterweight system envisioned in the earlier films.
I want to talk about two elements of this author's thinking independently, namely the use of a counterweight system and the use of internal ramps. In addition, the author seems to think that his ideas make those of Pierre Houdin obsolete, I do not think that they do.
The first film above theorizes that there was an extensive system of counterweights used to hoist material uphill The counterweights included humans, who would ride the weight down, get off and walk uphill out of the pyramid.
One of the problems I have with this is scale. Are we talking about every stone in the pyramid being hoisted individually up an incline using ropes and counterweights? There are over two million stones. That is a lot of uses of the system and the ropes. In addition, each stone has to be brought to the pyramid to begin with, then each stone has to be attached to the system, hoisted, then detached and hauled into place somewhere. How do the stones get harnessed into the system and then unharnessed? I think that is a big time waster, a major inefficiency.
As for internal ramps, this author posits more ramps than Houdin did. Houdin has an internal ramp that wraps around the monument at around 7% grade.
The author of these videos posits several different ramps in the interior of the pyramid. Those ramps need not interfere with Hourdin's ramp. So, I believe that Houdin's internal ramp at 7% grade can coexist with this author's construction method.
I wrote this post because the ideas presented in these films are extremely interesting and I like to share interesting ideas. Also, the films will play without commercials on this blog. So, I can study them often and without ads if I put the links here. And so can you. Enjoy! I know I will.
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