Egypt
- Hemienu To Houdin
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- 'mr. Mummy' Reveals Great Pyramid Secret: Built From Inside?
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- More Evidence Of Secret Passages In The Great Pyramid
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- Egypt Says No Onsite Tests For French Pyramid Theory
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070411-035121-2808r"The powerful head of Egypt's antiquities department Tuesday ruled out any onsite tests to check the veracity of a new French theory about the building of the Great Pyramid. 'It...
- More On Houdin's Pyramid Construction Theory
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/839/eg6.htmNevine El-Aref has a brief look at French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin's new internal ramp theory concerning the construction of the Great Pyramid. The best summary to date is still Bob Brier's, found...
Egypt
French Pyramid theory rejected
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/
"Egyptian, German and US archaeological experts have rejected the theory of the French archaeologist Jean-Pierre Houdin about how the Giza Pyramids were built, Zahi Hawass, the Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said yesterday.
According to Houdin, the Ancient Egyptians built the 480-foot-high Great Pyramid of Giza from the inside out, using a ramp that spiralled around the pyramid's interior, 30 to 45 feet inside its external surface.
"Egyptian, German and US archaeological experts have rejected the theory of the French archaeologist Jean-Pierre Houdin about how the Giza Pyramids were built, Zahi Hawass, the Secretary-General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, said yesterday.
According to Houdin, the Ancient Egyptians built the 480-foot-high Great Pyramid of Giza from the inside out, using a ramp that spiralled around the pyramid's interior, 30 to 45 feet inside its external surface.
Hawass tested the theory on the ground in the area of the Pyramids, along with a number of eminent archaeologists including the American Mark Lehner and the German Rainer Stadelman. They concluded that the Frenchman's theory was scientifically impossible."
This is the complete item on the Egyptian Gazette website.
For an excellent summary of Jean-Pierre Houdin's theory see Bob Brier's piece on the Archaeology Magazine website:
For an excellent summary of Jean-Pierre Houdin's theory see Bob Brier's piece on the Archaeology Magazine website:
http://www.archaeology.org/0705/etc/pyramid.html
- Hemienu To Houdin
Em Hotep (Keith Payne) Another excellent piece from Keith Payne, stuffed full of diagrams and photographs. Most theories of how the Great Pyramid of Khufu was built agree that some sort of external ramp was required, even if an external ramp alone would...
- 'mr. Mummy' Reveals Great Pyramid Secret: Built From Inside?
Greenwich Citizen The unsolved mystery of how the 482-foot Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was made has captivated the curious for centuries. That fascination brought a standing-room-only crowd to the Bruce Museum some weeks ago when a noted Egyptologist,...
- More Evidence Of Secret Passages In The Great Pyramid
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Vincent has picked up on a video on the National Geographic website: National Geographic has posted a video to their YouTube channel today that presents supporting evidence of Jean Pierre Houdin’s internal spiral ramp...
- Egypt Says No Onsite Tests For French Pyramid Theory
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070411-035121-2808r"The powerful head of Egypt's antiquities department Tuesday ruled out any onsite tests to check the veracity of a new French theory about the building of the Great Pyramid. 'It...
- More On Houdin's Pyramid Construction Theory
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/839/eg6.htmNevine El-Aref has a brief look at French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin's new internal ramp theory concerning the construction of the Great Pyramid. The best summary to date is still Bob Brier's, found...