11-05 Hydraulic reading of the Khafre Pyramid

Khafre Pyramid is still full of secrets, with its 411 cubits on sides and 274 cubits high, and the slope of the faces is 53°07’; however, an angle degree close to a single SKD (cotangent x7), i.e., 5.25 in this context (exactly seven times the half base / height), would be 53°21’. The radius of the protection sphere is 53 meters, the only visible chamber,

Khephren chambre

that is clearly appointed as a burial chamber has a cross-section of 14.15 × 5 meters, a floor area of 71 M2, and is 6.83 meters high. It is extended by a significant horizontal gallery that is 55 meters long, 1 meter wide, and 1.78 meters high.

From what we know today about this pyramid, there is no clue about a shaft that would have been sealed (same thing with the Menkaure Pyramid). I conclude that this pyramid was entirely built with a counterweight winch system, already used for the construction of Cheops’s Pyramid.

Unless major progress in rope resistance had been made in between, I wonder if the real funeral chamber at the center of the pyramid was made only with blocks of average weight.

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