The Great Pyramid: Tomb of the Giants
The Great Pyramid of Giza: Tomb of the Giants
Research report by Gregor Spörri
According to historiography, the Great Pyramid was built 4600 years ago. However, there are no (longer) any records, plans or other solid evidence of this. The documents may have been stolen, lost or destroyed in the fire at the Library of Alexandria. Or they are located in the as yet unopened “secret chambers” of the pyramid.
Did Pharaoh Cheops build the Great Pyramid?
Egyptologists claim to have incontrovertible proof of the construction of the Great Pyramid by Khufu, citing fragments of a papyrus from the time of the pharaoh, discovered in 2013 in Wadi al-Garf, on the Gulf of Suez. The document is part of a ship’s logbook kept by a chief superintendent named Merer. Hence the name: Logbook of Merer or Papyrus Jarf A and B.
The task of the ship’s crew at the time was apparently to deliver building stones from the Tura quarries south of Giza across the Nile to the port in Giza. The logbook from the 26th year of King Khufu’s reign records the daily routines on the ship: date, type and size of cargo, special events, etc. It also mentions a kind of harbour master of Khufu who received the cargoes. In addition to the harbor in Giza, the Pyramid of Khufu is also mentioned, as well as a “chapel” of Khufu, where the sailors apparently spent the night.
But that’s all there is to it. What this papyrus says is simply that limestones were delivered to Giza. It is not known whether it was used as external cladding for the pyramid or for conversions, repairs or for the numerous other structures around the pyramid. Thus, scientifically speaking, the papyrus is absolutely no proof of the construction of the pyramid by Cheops.
According to ancient Arab traditions (e.g. Al-Makrizi’s Hitat), the Giza pyramids are much older than previously assumed. According to tradition, the Sphinx is also said to have existed long before the pyramids were built. Ancient erosion damage caused by water to the Sphinx and the pyramids lends additional weight to such reports. So what if the pyramids are actually 10,000 years old or even older and therefore date back to pre-Flood times?
The pyramid of Meidum, the Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid in Dashur are attributed to Pharaoh Snofru. The Great Pyramid in Giza is said to have been built by Snofru’s son Cheops (Khufu). The Pyramid of Chephren in Giza by Cheop’s son Chephren (Chaefre). In ancient Egypt, however, it was not uncommon for kings to adorn themselves with foreign buildings.
And this is how the “building theft” worked: A reigning king (pharaoh) had a building or temple complex built before his time renovated and/or extended. In the course of the construction work, he had the name cartouches and portraits of his predecessor chiseled out of the stone and replaced with his own insignia. A typical example of this is the so-called Abydos hieroglyphs.
It could have been the same with the Giza pyramids: Snofru, Cheops and Chephren used the structures as a sign of their power, for cult purposes etc., but were not their builders. They may have had external cladding added and/or renovated and other structures built around the pyramids. In addition, the chambers in the Great Pyramid remain a mystery to this day. What purpose they served is still partly not understood.
The unfinished rock chamber in the Great Pyramid
A mysterious chamber exists 30 meters beneath the pyramid. The room is 14.5 meters long, 8.3 meters wide and 3.6 meters high. However, work on the chamber was stopped before it was completed. The reason for this has not been handed down and, on closer inspection, the published theories on the subject lack any logic.
The chamber is reached via the so-called descending corridor. Starting from the main entrance to the pyramid, the corridor leads straight 105 meters into the rock below the base level of the structure, where it becomes horizontal and ends nine meters further on in the rock chamber.
Historical facts about the rock chamber
The engineer, anthropologist and Egyptologist John Shae Perring (1813-1869) became famous for his excavations and documentation of the pyramids. In 1837, Perring and the archaeologist Richard William Howard Vyse (1784-1853) began searching for secret chambers in the Great Pyramid. The two Englishmen did not shy away from blasting. The 11-meter-deep “exploratory shaft” on the east wall of the rock chamber was also created by such a blast and further excavations.
In 1910, John and Morton Edgar explored the pyramid. When the brothers entered the rock chamber, they came face to face with the huge pile of rubble that Perring and Vyse had left behind after their blasting. Today, the chamber appears clean and tidy. The rubble was removed, the ground leveled and the exploratory shaft secured with a railing.
Scientific facts about the rock chamber
There are only a few scientific theories about the possible function of the rock chamber. None of them are convincing. Basically, no one knows for whom or for what the 120 square meter chamber was carved out of the rock.
Mysterious words from an old grave robber
I will never forget Najib’s words to me before he showed me the relic of Bir Hooker: “When you have seen what I am prepared to show you, you will look at the pyramid with completely different eyes.”
A tomb for giants?
Even during my overnight stay in the pyramid in 1988, the two mighty boulders reminded me of unfinished giant sarcophagi. After a visit to the Serapeum in Sakkara and an exact measurement of the stone blocks in the rock chamber, a light dawned on me and the mysterious words of the tomb robber made sense.
All at once, one piece of the puzzle fell into place: the 70-ton sarcophagi in the Serapeum, made as if for giants. The relic of Bir Hooker: the chopped-off finger of a man-like giant. The ancient legends, myths, apocryphal writings, the Torah, the Bible, etc., which tell of such giants. And the traditions that tell us that the Great Pyramid dates back to pre-Flood and therefore Old Testament times.
Was the rock chamber really intended as a tomb for “biblical” giants (Nephilim)? An idea that is as crazy as it is fascinating. Even if the two sarcophagi are only roughly outlined, theThe tombs were cut out of the rock, so it is easy to imagine what the finished burial chamber might have looked like. Below is my reconstruction from the current state to completion.
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