The Sarcophagus Chamber
1- completely faced in blocks of pink granite .
2- The ceiling is composed of slabs each weighing over 400 tons .
3- on the west side of the chamber is the red granite sarcophagus of the King with no cover and no inscriptions .4- Nothing was found inside it , neither Mummy nor ornaments.
5- 5 Chambers designed to relieve the enormous pressure exerted by the overlying mass of the pyramid on the ceiling of the King’s chamber .
6- The name “ khufu “ was discovered daubed in red paint on some of the walls and ceiling of the curious internal monument.
7- The tower is strangely reminiscent of the z letter or the back stone of Osiris .
8- Ventilation shafts : These 2 ducts on the north and south faces the pyramid .
Carry air to the burial chamber.
The pyramid-An enigma in stone
- How were the pyramids built
Herodotus wrote... how a pyramid was built .. it was made after the planner of steps and when they had first made it thus.... they raised the remaining stones with machines made of short pieces of timber , raising them first from the ground to the first stage of the steps and when the stone go up to this it was placed upon another machine standing on the first stage and so from this it was drawn to the second upon another machine for as many as were the courses of the steps.
1- Architects , engineers, archaeologists and scholars have expressed their ideas and made their contribution to finding a solution to one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of ancient Egypt.
2- Most certainly, the store was quarried , cut into blocks loaded onto sleds runners , or rollers and dragged to the pyramid construction site .
3- Once there arose the problem of how to lift these gigantic stones ?
The most highly credited theory is now that involving ramps
Ramps - wide inclined planes , built of mud brick or sand that gradually increased in slope and height as the pyramid went up .
The ramp may have been straight and perpendicular to the pyramid.
4- It took 10 years to make the causeway for the conveyance of the stones It is built of polished stone.The pyramid it self was 20 years in building and was built in steps .
5- After laying the stones for the base , they raised the remaining stones to their places by means of machines formed of short wooden planks .
6- The first machine raised them from the ground to the top of the first step on this there was another machine which received the stone upon its arrival and conveyed it to the second step .
Whence a third machine advanced it still higher .Either they had many machines as there were steps in the pyramid.
They had a single machine , which being easily moved was transferred from tier to tier as the stone rose . Both accounts are given
Therefore, mention both.
7- The upper Parton of the pyramid was finished first then, the middle and finally the part which was lowest and nearest the ground.
The machines
1- obviously the machines were differently built according to the varing heights involved and the weights to lift for blocks for around 2 tons that had to be lifted to a height of 6 M
2- A machine 8 m high at most might need not much more than half an hour, so that it would take a block 6 hours to be hoisted to a height of a 100 m with a series of machines on all sides.
A bout 200 blocks a day could then be unloaded on the uppermost work yard .
3- A series of machines was not required for the fairly limited number of blocks weighing 40 or 50 tons and 1 or 2 specially built pivoted levers sufficed aided by levers and counter weights like those used later to erect the obelisks .
4- These pivoted levers used for heavy loads would certainly have been of appropriate dimensions and beams of Lebanon Cedar , like the masts os boats , measuring up to 50 m in length were employed.
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