At the very beginning Jean-Pierre’ said, “There were two stages of construction that the Ancient Egyptian workers would’ve used during construction of the five different relieving chambers built directly above The King’s Burial Chamber located in the very heart of Khufu. The Ancient Egyptian workers who had built this ancient monument would’ve used two stages of construction to raise gigantic beams and rafters that were needed to support the tremendous amount of weight above the flat ceiling. The same one that still rests above this incredible chamber up until this very day! In turn, these granite beams and rafters have supported the flat ceiling that is constructed directly above The King’s Burial Chamber for four thousand five hundred years now.”
In order for them to have done this, The Ancient Egyptian stone haulers of the day would’ve had to move each and every beam or rafter for The King’s Chamber upwards from the port on The Nile River to the top of The King’s Burial Chamber in a single trip! All the way up from where they were stored down at the trade port on the pyramid building site resting on The Nile. So, for the Great Egyptian Architect of that time, Hemiunu who designed and oversaw the construction of the great pyramid to complete such a remarkable stone hauling task in time for the pharaoh’s funeral, he must have given his best workers the full use of two separate counterweight lifting systems. According to their rope configurations they would’ve been made to be readily available at the disposal of the workers at any time during the day, or night. One of these counterweight systems was dug into the surface of the Giza Plateau at the top of the port ramp. Later on there would’ve been two more counterweight systems that were used by the stone haulers of the day.
One of these counterweights systems was made to be located inside a trench that was built to be inside south side of the unfinished pyramid itself at a forty-three-meter level. Another one of these counterweights was designed to operate inside The Grand Gallery itself. Which even up until this very day is still located in the very heart of The Great Pyramid. Both powerful counterweight systems were readily used to lift the beams and rafters to the top of the higher levels of the unfinished relieving chambers. All of these separate counterweights would’ve had the same length in their glide path of forty-seven meters for a counterweight run of about forty meters. While at the same time, once the beams and rafters had been stored safely on the 43rd meter level the counterweight sliding in the port ramp trench with all its materials, and devices linked to it. After that, it was dismantled and used again in the second stages of raising the beams and rafters up from the forty-third-meter level storage area into their respective places in the ceiling above The King’s Burial Chamber!
Jean-Pierre’ says, “The first of these two stages was divided into two secondary steps. Two secondary steps consisted of moving sixty-five beams and rafters in an upwards, and westerly direction from the shipping port on The Nile River, (Which was located at thefoot of The Great Pyramid.) all the way to the top of the port ramp, (Which was located at the base of the external pyramid ramp.) From the foot of the external pyramid ramp the beams and rafters were then going to be moved upwards in a northerly direction to the top of the external pyramid ramp. Then, stored at the forty-third- meter level on the pyramid itself! Two secondary stages were successive. All the beams and rafters had to travel upwards from the port on The Nile River to the top of the forty-third-meter level in one trip. Once all the beams and rafters had been stored there the second stage could follow. The construction of the ceiling above The King’s Burial Chamber.
At the same time when the stone haulers working above the trenches were still using counterweights to help them move the monolith beams and rafters up to the higher levels of this unfinished pyramid’s construction. The Egyptians also wanted slow momentum of the counterweight loads. The ones that weighed over fifty tons! And on the way back down to the bottom of the slopes again, they did do this for the safety of the workers, but also because of the fact that they didn’t want to have any damage done to the pyramid either. The beams and rafters that weighed more than fifty tons were pulled upwards by the counterweights directly and by the stone haulers themselves.
Jean-Pierre’ said,
“A traction of a load is equal to a counterweight run in its glide path. It would’ve been around forty meters in its glide path then the counterweight’s would’ve been reloaded.”
Then he talked about the rope configurations. In the first stage of construction and that there were three separate sets of ropes that The Ancient Egyptian workers would’ve used to operate the counterweights in the port ramp trench, and in The Grand Gallery. All of these ropes would have worked independently of one another. Although all of the ropes were about an inch and a half wide and didn’t stretch very much they were all twisted before each traction to get tension.”
After that, Jean-Pierre’ went on to say that, “These granite beams and rafters The Ancient Egyptian workers would’ve needed to support the tremendous weight of the pyramid above The King’s Burial Chamber quarried in Asuan which was located over eight hundred kilometers to the south of The Giza Plateau on the Nile River. These same beams and rafters were all transported to their final destination on the grounds of the pyramid’s building site by way of wooden barges that sailed south using The Nile. These large vessels were made up of cloth sails and wooden planks that were tied together with ropes, and knots.”
The Ancient Egyptian ship builders would’ve tied barges together like this because they didn’t have nails to hold them together. On their way down The Nile to the working port at the pyramid construction site at Giza, the captains of these barges would’ve used the downward current of The Nile to sail north and complete their final journey back to the building complex. Once the beams and rafters had all been delivered to the building site they were stored at the port until workers were able to raise them up to their final places in the five relieving chambers built above The King’s Burial Chamber. The second stage of the ceiling’s construction involved transporting sixty-five of the beams and rafters directly above the flat ceiling made inside The King’s Burial Chamber. In doing so, they were utilizing a brand new type of pyramid architectural design.
One that would’ve involved the use of a room with a flat ceiling, and at the time it had never been used before nor has it ever been used since. The new type of burial chamber was used singly, standing by itself and would’ve been built into the center of The Khufu’s Pyramid itself in order for it to be used half way up in the pyramid which at the same time it would’ve started out at the base of the forty third-meter level storage area until they were able to be lifted up and put into place in the ceiling above the constructions five different relieving chambers. At the top of the final relieving chamber, the pyramid rose up to be at the height of a sixty-fourth- meter level. The last level in the construction of the room’s ceiling above the relieving chambers, the rafters, and the roof. While at the time the stone haulers of the day were working on the ceiling’s relieving chambers that day, they also would’ve wanted to implement a brand new type of a counterweight system.
A new counterweight configuration made completely of the reused trolley, building materials, and devices of the former counterweight which previously was located in The Port Ramp Trench.This second stage Counterweight system was able to raise a monolith beam or rafter anywhere from between ten to forty meters above the fortythird-meter level storage area all the way up to the sixtyfourth-meter level located at the level of the 22, 21 ton rafters that would cover the ceiling and its relieving chambers. Only this time the new counterweight would’ve sat directly across from The Grand Gallery itself a hundred and eightydegree angle facing The South Side Slide Lifting Platform to the north in order for it to have raised them to the higher levels of this newly built Egyptian Pyramid.
INTERVIEW WITH JEAN-PIERRE HOUDIN