Maybe the second pyramid {Khafri's} but the Great pyramid {Khufu's} has the Grand gallery and all the other inner precision stone engineering etc at it's core. This is one reason why "some" theorize that the larger Great pyramid was older and that the other smaller second one is a poor copy of the first which is why it shows no inner precision engineering at it's core.
Yes, I agree that the Grand Gallery, or anything supporting it immediately is probably not adjacent to rubble, but perhaps in certain places, which were away from many of the internal structures (and believe many not found yet). they did take some shortcuts and use some sort of fill... But it must have been done in some already isolated, geometrically engineered locations as not to destroy the integrity and geometric precision of the the entire structure.
I still have this rock facing problem. As demonstrated especially in areas like the Grand Gallery.
How do you say... take a 20 to 40 ton block of limestone, let alone granite, and dress it so that one side is a specific angle, and other sides fit to accept the blocks surrounding it, at such a precision? Some of the angled faces would be almost as good as a mirror if they had a coating on them. Where are those tools, and how did they do it. Today, a giant belt sander could certainly do it, or a wire saw.... but how, using hammers and tools that we think that they owned, did they ever get a smooth, flat surface on a stone, and how was this progress to perfection measured? That to me is the holy grail of finding out how this pyramid was every created.
Edit: I have seen the above posts on how limestone blocks could have been molded in casts and since limestone is a product of Cretaceous minerology, it's organic construct can be broken down and re-assembled much like concretion making it extremely difficult to determine if it was original or molded. I think that very objective scientific scrutiny can tell if limestone is manufactured or originally layered, but who has tacked that task, and what were the results? When it comes to igneous rock like granite, well no molding technique yet devised has been able to pull that off. The heat alone and energy to do it is staggering. So my thoughts about a molded stone drift towards the implausible as well as the impossible.
edit on 2-12-2011 by charlyv because: (no reason given)



