KHUFU THE WORLD'S GREATEST ARCHITECT?

        The pharaoh who supposedly commissioned the project is a virtual unknown as is most of the information of his day.  There are few records of his reign and only vague references to his association with the Great Pyramid.  The only physical image of Khufu is a four inch high ivory seated figure, found in the temple of Abydos, some over 250 miles to the south of the Giza complex. There are also images of flying vehicles at Abydos.  Of the few written references to Khufu one is recorded on an ancient stone tablet called the 'Inventory Stele', found at Giza in the mid 1800s, now at the Cairo Museum.  It speaks of Khufu's restoration of a small temple in the Giza complex, and an indication that the Sphinx and the Sphinx Temple were already In existence in Khufu's day and also intimates that the Great Pyramid itself was a well established monument before his reign.  There are no records of his day even remotely referring to him as its builder.  Not until 2200 years after the supposed date of construction did anyone attempt to give him credit for this awesome feat.  Enter Herodotus, a Greek historian of the 5th century BC (a writer, not an anthropologist), who wrote  " The Histories ", a travel almanac he wrote while on an historical quest. He claims that 100,000 men spent 20 years putting this puzzle together. What we do know is that most of his writings about the Great Pyramid are based on interviews with priests.  No consideration is given to the fact that they are relating information about a time 22 centuries before.  Also there is the fact that the method of construction proposed is based on his personal speculation, not any given facts.  Knowing nothing about the true complexity of this structure all he did was put forth his very unlearned opinion.  Yet the experts, who simply repeat as facts what scientists, blindly accept his opinion as truth and engineers say is nothing more than factual heresy. It is a little known fact that Herodotus recorded that these same priests also spoke about other things. These priests told Heroditus that their priesthood had existed for over a hundred centuries and that before that the gods had been on Earth coexisting with mankind. Do we read in the authoritative writings that there was a real race of real gods living with mankind 11,000 years ago in Egypt?  No!  And why not, considering that their words about the authorship of the Great Pyramid are accepted as historical fact?  If their information about planet dwelling gods is true then what we have is a stunning revelation that would certainly change the course of history and alter the view of life for the entire world!  As a matter of fact it would confirm the very theories proposed by those that the orthodoxy considers as radical fringe. Not to mention that this would explain why we see highly advanced mathematics and engineering in this structure.  But if they don’t talk about this aspect of the priestly interview and their divine revelations, (which obviously are more important than Khufu), then we must assume that they don’t believe in the god living with man connection.  If this were suspect then logic would support the supposition that anything the priests spoke about should be questioned.  Khufu's name was found, under mysterious circumstances, on a granite slab above the ceiling of the main chamber of the Great Pyramid as some small roughly scribbled chalk marks that had a slight resemblance to a hieroglyphic symbol for the name of Khufu. However this discovery is suspect to say the least and appears to have been planted to further the career and not surprisingly to save the funding, of its author.  Most hieroglyph experts now believe this is a forgery perpetrated by Richard Howard-Vyse the man who found them. The discovery was instantly questioned because of its timing.  Apparently there had been a thorough search of the area of his find the day before but this incredible find went undiscovered until he returned the next day and spent time alone in the chamber. Also apparent was that Howard-Vyse was under pressure to equal the discoveries of the explorer Caviglia, who found inscriptions in tombs within the Giza complex.  Modern experts suspect this find was an attempt to win a battle for one-upmanship and counter severe financial pressure from an expensive and unfruitful project.  There is no reliable evidence that Khufu built this pyramid.   

THE MAGNIFICENT TOMB?

         The facts literally bury this fanciful notion that the pyramid was designed as a tomb. First, no evidence that it was ever intended to be a tomb for Khufu or anyone else exists.  The only remnant we have of this purported great architect and builder is the small statue found in a funerary complex near the Great Pyramid with inscriptions citing Cheops / Khufu as the reigning pharaoh of the time of the building of that complex. There is no mention of him being the builder of the Great Pyramid.  There were no articles, fragments, records, or traces of any kind showing any evidence that this pyramid was ever used for a burial, period!  Added to this weak foundation of theory is one overwhelming fact.  Within the 100+ pyramids in Egypt not one body has ever been found, not even inside sealed sarcophagi. On the Inventory Stele dated about 1500 BC, Khufu tells of discoveries made while clearing away the sands from the pyramid, of his dedication of the monument to Isis, and of his building of the three small pyramids for himself, his wife, and his daughters next to the Great Pyramid.   Again no mention that he was the builder of the Great Pyramid or that it was his personal mausoleum.  Not one of the rulers of the Egypt’s fourth dynasty period put personal inscriptions on the pyramids supposedly built in their times.  However from the fifth dynasty forward the other pyramids were covered with text, leaving no question about which kings built them.  It defies logic that a man so enamored with himself that he builds the world’s largest structure to house his dead body would leave not one shred of evidence that he did it. Hardly what one would expect from history’s number one narcissist. No, it is more likely that Khufu only did what is truly recorded, digging it out of untold centuries of built up sand.      

HISTORY'S GREATEST CONSTRUCTION CREW?

        Of all the information commonly available about the Great Pyramid the methods of construction proposed by the 'experts' can probably be categorized as absolute and very bad fiction.  From the foundation it sits upon to watertight mantle that once covered it, every aspect of the Great Pyramid defies the primitive state of knowledge of the 27th century BC.  The tools required for such precision cutting of such massive stones simply did not exist.  The higher mathematics employed was not even known for many centuries in the future.  The equipment required to move and assemble the millions of components does not even exist today.  And we are expected to believe that without even the most basic tool, the wheel, and math so primitive that the number 0 had not even been discovered, they achieved a feat, which we may not be able to duplicate for decades if not centuries to come.  Just the design would take a computer to produce. Even a weekend handyman can testify that you can’t do a job without the proper tools. You can’t cleanly shear off the top of a granite mountain with copper chisels, but that’s what they claim was done.  They had no steel or explosives.  Brute strength, no matter how many bodies are working, and no matter how long it is applied won’t accomplish the impossible.  The one thing we can be certain about is this.  Not hundreds of thousands, or for that matter, not even hundreds of millions of slaves could have built this magnificent monument without technology they did not fathom, nor without tools they did not possess.  There is only one indicator of the possible age of the Great Pyramid other than speculation and hearsay. In the 1980’s the Great Pyramid was radiocarbon dated, not the stone, but the mortar.  Mortar can be used to date fragments of organic material, such as wood and carbon residue, which are sometimes found embedded in the mortar between the stone blocks.  The radiocarbon dates for the Great Pyramid ranged from 2853 to 3809 BC, the average being 3029 BC, which would make the pyramid some 400 years older than, is currently believed.  But two factors must be taken into this equation.  The reliability of radiocarbon dating has been called into question on many occasions so this must be considered in that light.  And of course the fact that the ‘mortar ‘ has not been identified so what effect that has on the figures is unknown. Of more obvious concern are the why and the who which if discovered could greatly diminish the importance of the when.