INTERVIEW JEAN-PIERRE HOUDIN
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’ve 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 abou