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By Mostafa Al AkloukPublished 10 months ago 9 min read
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In 1993, Rudolph Gatenbrink, a German engineer, explored a shaft in the Great Pyramid of Giza's Queen's Chamber. Unlike the King's Chamber shafts, these didn't lead outside. Instead, they went about 10 feet into the wall, reaching a dead end. Their purpose remained a mystery. Rudolph built a small robot with a camera and light. It was small enough to fit in the 8-inch square shaft. What happened next changed his life. The robot reached the expected end but kept going. It climbed at a 40-degree angle into a longer, unknown section. The camera showed it traveled another 90 yards. It stopped at a small limestone door. Two copper handles were on the door. This baffled Rudolph's team. Metal had never been found inside the Great Pyramid. It was supposedly all limestone. The door had small gaps around the edges. This suggested something was behind it. Was it placed there later? Or was it meant to protect something? Rudolph wanted to know what was behind the door. He asked Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian Minister of Antiquities, for permission to investigate. But instead of permission, Zahi and Egyptian authorities shut down Rudolph's team. They were banned from further research. Zahi has a history of suppressing evidence that conflicts with mainstream Egyptology. Most mainstream Egyptology is based on speculation. This is especially true for the Great Pyramid. What you learned about it may not be facts. It may be unproven ideas based on limited evidence. Mainstream scientists believe the Great Pyramid was built around 4,500 years ago. Pharaoh Khufu supposedly built it as his tomb. They say it took only 20 years to finish. The pyramid once looked different. It was covered in smooth, white limestone. A solid gold capstone sat on top. Around the 1200s, an earthquake hit Egypt. It caused buildings in Cairo to collapse. Some limestone broke off the pyramid. Egyptians then removed the remaining limestone and the capstone. They used them to rebuild the city. This left the pyramid with its current blocky look. A sarcophagus sits in the King's Chamber. Mainstream Egyptologists say this proves it was Khufu's tomb. But no mummy, including Khufu's, has ever been found in the Great Pyramid. No mummies have been found in any pyramid. Khufu's name appears in the pyramid, adding to the idea that it was his tomb.Red paint inscriptions were found inside the Great Pyramid. Unlike carved hieroglyphs, this was graffiti painted on the walls. Someone may have added it long after construction. Tagging a building doesn't mean you built it. No hieroglyphs were carved inside the Great Pyramid. The builders didn't seem to need them. Also, no hieroglyphs mention who built the pyramids or how. Only a small statue, possibly of Khufu, has been found. It was not near the Great Pyramid. Mainstream theories about the pyramid seem weak. The monument's size makes you question ancient history.

The Great Pyramid contains 2.3 million limestone blocks. These stones weigh 2 to 80 tons. Up close, these blocks are massive. Many stones came from the Giza Plateau bedrock. Larger stones, weighing up to 80 tons, are inside. They were moved from 500 miles south of Giza. The pyramid predates the wheel by 300 years, even if built 4,500 years ago. Moving an 80-ton rock is hard even today.

A construction vehicle failed to move a large limestone rock. Hydraulic cranes struggle to lift such rocks. These cranes use steel cables, not papyrus ropes. Egyptians supposedly used wooden rollers on wet sand. Wet sand might work at ground level. But it won't work 350 feet up in the King's Chamber. Wooden rollers likely couldn't handle 80 tons.

The stones fit together precisely. They weren't glued with concrete or mortar. Each stone was cut and placed with care. The joints are so tight you can't fit a razor blade between them. The structure stands using its own weight and precise cuts. This is unlike the many pyramids built later. How did Egyptians cut each stone so perfectly?

Egyptologists say they used copper handsaws and chisels. An egyptologist tried to recreate the Sphinx stone using copper chisels. After days of hammering, the attempt was abandoned.Their copper chisels barely dented the stone after days of work. Copper chisels were inefficient and quickly dulled. Bronze chisels proved equally disappointing. Little stone was removed, and much metal was lost. Eventually, the researcher used a power saw. Another group tested a large copper hand saw, like those used in ancient times. Multiple people sawing for days only cut about 4 mm per hour.

This rate seems impossibly slow. Some ancient stone cuts are quite remarkable. A sarcophagus in Cairo was discarded due to a slightly off-center, 3-foot-long cut. If copper saws were used, the error would have been noticed sooner. Even at 4 inches per hour, correction was possible. The Egyptians must have used a faster tool or had an incompetent worker.

Even if the pyramid was a tomb built with copper tools, the 20-year construction timeline is questionable. Placing 10 stones daily would take 600 years to position 2.3 million stones. This assumes continuous work with no errors. Completing the pyramid in 20 years requires placing 315 stones daily, without breaks, using ropes, pulleys, and ramps.

Consider other projects for perspective. The pyramids of Teotihuacan, smaller than the Great Pyramid, took 150 years. The Sydney Opera House took 14 years. Filling a quarry the size of the Great Pyramid took 12 years of continuous effort.

It is hard to believe the Egyptians precisely cut and transported massive stones over 500 miles. The pyramid's perfect construction, with stones tightly fitted, was supposedly completed in only 20 years. This timeline seems illogical, even if their pyramid-building skills are beyond doubt. The tools and speed seem mismatched. The design, angles, dimensions, and global positioning of the Great Pyramid indicate meticulous planning. In the 1940s, P. Groves, a British airman and archaeologist, noticed the pyramid had eight sides, visible only at sunrise and sunset.The equinox happens twice yearly. The sun sits directly above Earth's equator during this event. This phenomenon was first noted in modern times. Many think this hints at deeper meaning within the structure. Was the design intentional? If so, why is it only visible from the air? Airplanes were invented 4,400 years later. The Great Pyramid's location is also significant. It's at Earth's landmass center. Lines from its sides would touch more land than from any other spot. The pyramid aligns almost perfectly to Magnetic True North. Its accuracy is 99.94%. Modern satellites confirmed this alignment. It's the most accurately aligned structure on Earth. The Paris Observatory was built to align with True North, but it is only half as accurate.

Ancient Egyptians had basic math skills. They likely didn't grasp geometry or trigonometry. They also didn't know constants like Pi or Phi. Yet, these constants appear in the pyramid's design. Pi relates a circle's circumference to its radius. A circle with the pyramid's perimeter would have a radius equal to the pyramid's height. Phi, or the Golden Ratio, shapes life. It governs everything from embryos to galaxies. The ratio of the pyramid's side surface area to its base is 1.618, or the Golden Ratio. The pyramid's coordinates are 29.9792458 degrees North. This matches the speed of light in meters per second. Light speed wasn't discovered until the 1600s. These connections suggest more than coincidence.

The pyramid sits on a base called the socle. The socle is incredibly flat. Lasers show it's flat within 1/4 inch. Modern technology is needed to replicate this precision. White limestone once covered the pyramid, flush with the socle. The missing limestone gives two ways to measure the pyramid's base. Earth is not a perfect sphere. Spinning causes it to bulge.The Earth's shape is wider at the equator than its height. A square minute of latitude and longitude isn't a true square. The north-south line is slightly shorter than the east-west line. How does this relate to the Great Pyramid? Imagine dividing that square minute into four parts. The latitude line would be 322.34 ft, and the longitude line 343.5047 ft.

The pyramid's perimeter, without its base platform, matches the shorter latitude line. If you include the base, it mirrors the longer longitude line. This means the pyramid is a 1 to 43,200 scale model of Earth. Making the pyramid 43,200 times larger would equal the size of the northern hemisphere. The accuracy is within 300 ft.

This is amazing because Earth is always changing. Tidal forces distort its shape by hundreds of feet. Getting more accurate than 300 ft is impossible. The number 43,200 is also significant. The pyramid's eight sides appear on the equinox. The seconds from sunrise to sunset on that day total 43,200.

Every two seconds, Earth rotates a distance equal to the pyramid's base perimeter. The Sun's radius is 432,000 miles. Earth wobbles one degree every 72 years, a multiple of 432. The pyramid's inner chambers resonate with Earth's vibrations at 432 Hz. The builders knew a lot about math, astronomy, and Earth science.

This knowledge was carefully used in the pyramid's design. Why did they do this? Robert Bauval's book, "The Orion Mystery," suggests a connection to the Orion constellation. The three Giza pyramids mirror the stars of Orion's Belt. Looking out from the King's Chamber on the equinox, the shaft points to Orion's Belt. This alignment was perfect 4,500 years ago, when the pyramid was built. Similar alignments exist at the Mayan pyramids of Teotihuacan in Mexico. Considering all this, along with questions about the construction and Khufu's role, one wonders about the pyramid's true purpose.If the Giza Pyramid wasn't a tomb, what was its purpose? Ancient builders worldwide shared similar knowledge. Joe Parr, an electronics engineer, researched the pyramid's properties. From 1977 to 1987, he studied its electromagnetic and radioactive aspects. Parr thought the pyramid's shape and materials created an energy field. He believed the limestone and quartz had electromagnetic properties. This field was likely too weak to function today.

Parr built a small-scale pyramid model for an experiment. He sent an alternating magnetic current through it. The goal was to strengthen the energy field. The pyramid then formed an energy bubble. This force field blocked external radiation, including gamma rays. Parr added a centrifuge inside the model to amplify the bubble's strength. As the bubble grew, the pyramid became weightless. It even started to levitate.

The energy orb became very strong. The levitating pyramid seemed to vanish. Then, it reappeared embedded in the room's walls. Parr thought pyramids could enter "hyperspace" under the right conditions. This allowed them to pass through objects. The time of year also affected the bubble's strength. It was strongest from December 12th to 16th. Parr linked this to charged particles from the Sun. The Earth passes through these particles in its orbit. During those dates, Earth, the Sun, and Orion's Belt align. Parr documented this before Robert Bauval's "The Orion Mystery" book.

What does all this mean? Before his death in the early 2000s, Joe Parr had a theory. He thought the Great Pyramid might be a time machine. It could channel energy and tap into other dimensions. String Theory, a new science field, suggests at least ten dimensions. Parr's idea remains speculative. It's like many mainstream theories about the pyramid. We need a better grasp of quantum mechanics. The pyramid's construction, geometry, and astronomy are amazing. Some people suppress evidence about ancient Egypt. The more we explore the pyramid, the more questions arise. Why was sacred geometry so important? Why does the pyramid align with Orion's Belt? Some features are only visible from the sky. Flight wasn't invented until the 1900s.

It's tempting to think aliens built the pyramids. However, there's no solid proof yet. Until we find extraterrestrial evidence, caution is best.It's likely ancient civilizations possessed advanced technology, exceeding what history books teach. Their tech differed from ours. This explains why archaeologists struggle to recognize it; they seek familiar artifacts. Fossil records show humans existed for 200,000 years. During that time, at least 16 cataclysms struck, resetting civilization. A global disaster likely occurred around 11,800 to 12,000 years ago. It plunged humanity back into the Stone Age. The Younger Dryas impact, when an asteroid struck Earth, ended the Ice Age around 11,500 years ago.

Pre-cataclysm people were likely more advanced. We struggle to imagine this due to a lack of evidence. Sites like Göbekli Tepe, dating back 11,500 years, support this theory. These discoveries suggest humans were more advanced than we thought. They might have mastered a different tech branch, able to move massive stones. The Sphinx provides an example. Traditionally, it was built after the Great Pyramid about 4,500 years ago.

In 1991, John Anthony West found erosion patterns around the Sphinx. The patterns weren't from wind and sand, as experts claimed. They resulted from thousands of years of heavy rain. The Sahara hasn't seen that rain in at least 11,500 years. When West shared this, Zahi Hawass banned him from further Sphinx study.

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