Great Pyramid was on the verge of collapse during construction
Bob Brier, also known as Doctor Mummy, along with an architect and a team of software specialists, has determined that huge support beams inside the Great Pyramid at Giza cracked as final construction was under way 4,500 years ago.
The team used 3-D modeling software that measures stresses in buildings, cars and airliners and found that the pyramid cracked up when three things happened: One wall of King Khufu’s burial chamber settled, stone rafters in a room above the chamber slipped, and the height of the pyramid reached 392 feet.
The team found that the pyramid’s architect, Hemienu, cut a tunnel into a sealed space above the burial chamber to assess the damage and filled the cracks with plaster that would indicate if the cracks were widening. The ancient fix-it job worked, the beams held and the pyramid was complete.
Brier will present his findings at the Microsoft Innovation Management Forum in Redmond, Wash., on Tuesday.
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Bob Brier has “borrowed” this theory from another researcher.
The hypothesis that the cracks in the granite roof beams of the King’s Chamber are contemporary with the Great Pyramid’s contruction was first proposed by Jean Kerisel many years ago. Kerisel even proposed that the ancient architect examined the cracks from above the roof and repaired them with mortar.
See Jean Kerisel’s book “La Pyramide a Travers les Ages” (1991),pp.78-9.
The pyramid was *never* on the verge to collapse and Bob Brier and Jean-Pierre Houdin are not saying that in their book.
Simulations performed with industrial software from Dassault Systèmes have shown that the cracks in the beam occured after the king’s chamber was completed. However, only a slight collapse on the southern wall account for that disorder. We have carefully simulated each step of the chamber construction and found out that the Egyptians never made design errors, as some people previously wrote.
This is the first time that finite element analysis software is used to simulate and explain the cracks in the king’s chamber and it does make a big difference. The plasters put by the Egyptians in the cracks was here only to check that the disorder was not progressing anymore. It was not intended to repair anythinbg (how could have it repaired such cracks?). We know now how and when the cracks occured, and this has never been done before.
The simulation and the result is not borrowed from any previous work or hypothesis.
In reply to Mr Robert G. Bauval…
Dear Sir,
Before going public with wrong affirmations, you should better inform you about what you are writting…
For your information:
If you had red the book Dr Bob Brier and I have recently published, you should have noticed that I know Mr Jean Kerisel an hundred times more than you could think. Mr Kerisel was a friend of my father since 1954…and for 50 years !
Mr Kerisel is at the origin of my passion for Khufu !
Even if Mr Kerisel was a well respected engineer, he went wrong regarding the cracks of the King’s Chamber…It happens sometimes…And he went wrong too about Khufu himself…Khufu was certainly not a tyranic guy…
Your writings are too much biased with nothing true !!!
As for the Orion Mystery…before going to the stars, look first at the topography of the Plateau…The answer is just there…
I fully understand that I’m disturbing your own Pyramid Business…A lot of people thinking the Earth was flat were angry when it was prooved that the Earth was spheric…
That’s life…
Best Regards
Jean-Pierre Houdin