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This sentence written on one of the Samarkand gates, which city was the mother of a huge civilisation coming out of the neolithic, could be the front plate for my blog.

The 7 great pyramids are non stop speaking for millenaries their own language mixing stones and physics, this blog decipher the meaning of what they say and write it down in the language of the humans.

Were those powerful great kings that spend the best of a kingdom in a 20 years project to build those huge monuments piling millions of stones, to hide and protect them for eternity, dumb enough for at the end be put in those chambers so easy to find and to access and not letting their name and merit to the posterity?

As deep as we can dig in the past nobody never declared having find even a single chunk of a funeral furniture or body belonging to a king.

The 4 previous didn’t show a single sarcophagus and if the followers did, they were found empty and uncovered, the lid never found.

It’s well knew that at that times the funerary habits were austere, the vault in the previous mastabas and the sarcophagus were bare as well, the funeral furniture very minimalist.

ALL the known chambers of the seven great pyramids are empty, sad and bare.

But at least the antechamber embedded in the same monument contained the name and quality of the occupier and some very vivid engravings very often painted if not a colourful statue like the Hemiunu and AnkHaf ones.

Nevertheless everybody is willing to recognize that the pyramids brought a breakthrough in the funeral monuments and could have introduced some drastic changes in the funeral practices.

What a mess!

Although noting is visible inside, some pretend that all the memorial was done in the temples associated with the pyramid, unfortunately those temples are so ruined, if not totally erased, that not a single information coming out of them can back up this affirmation.

As a result the attribution to this or that king of this or that pyramid is more a quiz that a fully documented statement.

At the end, despite what the “consensus” says, I find me legitimate to say that those chambers never contended any king ‘s dead body!

Leading to the following two questions:

What was the aim of these rooms?

Where are the kings?

Answering these two questions is the subject of this study.

The reader in a hurry will find above an overview of the answers, their detailed justifications are in the summary on the right:

• First, the Saqqara Step Pyramid, the first cut-stone pyramid ever built, revolutionized traditional funerary architecture. Analyzed thoroughly, it reveals the secret of all the family members who followed: the king is no longer down below in a sinister vault but inside his “bunker” at the heart of the pyramid, where lot of stones stand between the remains and the robbers.
• A thorough examination of the 201 course of the pyramid of Cheops reveals that the traditional structure of a vault at the bottom of a well has been kept, except now “the bottom of the shaft” is at the center of the pyramid and the shaft starts from the top, filled in with bigger and bigger slabs of stone as pyramids get higher and wider. The now smooth face, the high summit, the weight of the slabs, and the setting of fake chambers to fool the “visitors from the future” make it far from possible to clear the shaft accessing the vault.
• At Saqqara, under this first pyramid, the 12 wells could have held water with floats of simple and astute conception that could easily lift building stones, even huge monoliths in the main well at the center.
• The six following kings copied, adapted and improved this innovation into ever-bigger pyramids. They have lied there in their sealed bunker for 4,500 years and for many years to come, since no one will be looking for them anymore.
• All the chambers visited have nothing to do with funeral chambers; they happen to be old water tanks that have now dried.
• To this day, we have only visited the water circuits of the great pyramids, and yet, not entirely because of the vertical well-shaft with the elevator floats skillfully made up in chambers (never looked for), they remain largely undiscovered (except in the first pyramid, where they are obvious).
• The only “entries” found in the great pyramids are water entries.
• Without the vertical shafts containing the elevator floats, filling up the chambers and the galleries of the pyramid with water would make no sense.
• These vertical shafts were filled in with building stones and concealed to hide the presence of water.
• The access galleries to the elevator inside the pyramids from the outside, carefully obstructed and never searched, remain to be found.
• Added to millions of tons of stones, to reinforce the protection of kings, all pyramids were skillfully covered up to make it appear to “visitors” from the future that they were not the first, and the chambers, which could only be funerary ones, were already looted

The magic of these decors worthy predecessors of the illusion of Hollywood is still acting, for centuries all visitors and especially archaeologists have been fooled, wandering in dried water pipes, all believed and still believe they have visited the mortuary chambers of the great kings completely “cleaned” by looters.

Behind the “evidence” of the elevators whose traces are still in the pyramids, there are, (almost) disappeared forever.

To build this pyramid, the builders had to face a two-part problem:

• Quarrying, moving, raising and putting millions of stones of variable sizes, weighing from about 100 kg (220 lb) to about 7 tons, to fill and clad the pyramid,
• A specific treatment goes to hundred of stones, weighing from 7 tones to about 72-tons, for some interior building blocs of the pyramid.

Each of these problems has a specific solution.

• Use of hydraulic lifts for the hundred heaviest stones,
• Use of counterweights guided by a winch to raise millions of stones along the face.

To carry on this huge task, there are two other basic issues to solve:

• Moving the blocks on the smooth faces of the face without degrading it and with little friction,
• Generating enough raising force along a 52° slope, from base to top.

For the transport, they invented the “roller skid” to be placed under the cart carrying the blocks. This skid had an internal friction track (or rolling track), which closed in on itself and was covered by the inner face of a caterpillar track, whose outer face rested on the ground.

As a result, a path, which would have been hundreds of meters long, is reduced to just a few centimeters and could be particularly well-designed in terms of low friction materials and lubrication.

This skid, almost as simple as a butter slicer, is all-lanes. It is suitable for the smooth face of the pyramid as well as for the surface of the course under construction and for the roads built for the transport of the blocks from the Nil or from the plateau quarries.

To lift the vast of these huge blocks, the builders used a counterweight, which they lowered along the opposite face to cancel the weight of the block to be lifted onto the face.

Blocks and counterweights are connected by a rope crossing the course under construction, going through two rope returns left on the edges one on the course on the block and the other on the counterweight side.

It is known that the laws of falling bodies were theorized much later by Galileo, Beeckman and Descartes, but this didn’t prevent the builders from knowing them perfectly, at least empirically.

They knew that leaving such a weight-counterweight system to control the speed of the fall on its own was dangerous. So, they installed a winch on the rope crossing the course. It added a force controlled by humans to the force applied by the counterweight, which, de facto, could be lighter than the block to lift.

This winch produced sufficient power to lift a fraction of the weight of the block to be lifted. For example, it takes around 1 ton to lift a 6-ton block.

A careful examination of the course 201, which is 0.57-meter (22.44 inches) thick, shows that none of the filling blocks are identical, weighing from 220 lb to about 4 tons, with 20 % weighing less than a metric ton and 50 % about 1.8 tons.

Although this foundation cannot be entirely representative of the others, for the average course, which is about 0.7 m (2 feet and 4 inches) thick, we can expect medium blocks to weigh around 2.2 tones and heavy blocks to weigh around 5 tones. For thicker foundations

with a thickness of around 0.9 m (2 feet and 11 inches), these values would go from 3-tones to 6.6-tones.

Therefore, for the heaviest blocks, high-resistance ropes were needed to withstand the traction. Today, a natural hemp rope (the same hemp used by ancient Egyptians) with a diameter of 44mm (1.7 in) breaks at 13-t. It could have been used for the heaviest filling stones, while for the 3-t blocks, a rope with a diameter of 30mm (1.1 in) would have been enough.

But which rope should be used for a 72-t block?

This is why builders chose to develop slower but stronger hydraulic elevators (as early as the first Djoser pyramid).

Lifting shafts, roller skids, counterweights, and winches all demonstrate a deep scientific and empirical knowledge of the laws of nature, which, when well exploited, made it possible for a handful of engineers and just 2,000 workers to build “Akhet Khufu”, the Great Pyramid, in only 20 years.

This video on Vimeo exposes the 3 fundamental points of the pyramids (sorry in french)

The Egyptians of the Third and Fourth Dynasty knew for about 160 years their “century of lights”, it is clear that their great pyramids still testify 4,500 years later that they succeeded conquering the time .

We will never know if the enormous increase in their size to the Cheops pyramid was the result of a functional cause or the ego of the pharaohs. The rapid tumble that followed the apogee with the pyramid of Cheops, then the disappearance forever of this family of pyramids testifies to a societal upheaval which provoked at least the definitive extinction of accumulated knowledge during this brilliant period.

These monuments reveal from humans the desire to leave an “eternal” message to posterity, so to “measure” with the divine, which suggests a certain inflation of ego.

4,500 years later the challenge still stands and we have every reason to believe that it will last at least what will last humanity and the way things go we have every reason to fear that in 4500 years it will remain only the ants to admire the spectacle of the great pyramids, so what’s the point?

Any message is always left with the intention that it can be understood by someone of his kind or who knows? of a superior species, the pyramid is not addressed to ants.

From the top of his inviolate bunker, the dessicated king dominates the flotilla mastabas all around who accompany him in his one-way ticket for eternity. Paradoxically, some of the nobles below, whose graves have been devastated have left their names and their faces reach us, the king too well protected leaves an enigma, who is up there?

All these great pyramids are anonymous, their attribution to kings by archaeologists is questionable, there are even those who give without blinking three pyramids to the same pharaoh, yet one dies only once! and who for good measure decree that some are empty of mummy, “not pretty enough, not big enough, not safe enough? “.

This fact testifies that the message left by the builders is in clear obscure, ambiguous, this mass on the ground, one little more visible, one can not more durable is silent.

The pyramids send to posterity an enigma worthy of the sphinx who watches over them:

“If you want to know my name, unravels the enigma that hides me from you”

However, for 4,500 years the pyramids “speak”, in their language which is not the common language of the men, it is encrypted in the timeless and immutable language of the nature and the numbers which are not learned in the schools of archeology, but in engineering schools.

The consensus of the archaeologists did not understand anything of this message because it does not have the key of reading.

Submerged by the immense mass, duped by kings, they wander without understanding for centuries in the labyrinth of the guts of the hydraulic mechanism which raised the stones, not knowing where to look, they found nothing but rubble and graffiti.

Compulsively seeking the truth always under the same lamppost that does not illuminate anything, the community of archaeologists will consider negligible this study that goes too much off the beaten track and they would have trouble understanding if by chance they ventured .

Will it finally be that these particles are even older than the pyramids, muons from dead stars from the depths of the universe, that the project “scan pyramid” is talking, who show us where are the kings?