Talk:Great Pyramid of Giza

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Archive 1 September 2002 to April 2008

Contents 1 Messy end 2 Egyptian pyramid construction techniques 3 GA 4 Design of the Great gallery 5 Unfinished Chamber

[edit] Messy end

I'm no expert, but the External Links it of this page is very muddled. I don't want to try and change it, because I haven't the knowledge of how to change layout of an article, so this is more of a request for someone 'in the know' to sort out the final section and make it a bit easier on the eye. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Uranium grenade (talk • contribs) 03:34, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for spurring me on to doing this, it's been bothering me also (as does the editorial bit in at least one link). I just deleted the bits about div.Doug Weller (talk) 05:34, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Be bold, remove more. -- Secisek (talk) 06:32, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

More what?Doug Weller (talk) 07:16, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Links. The EL section is in bad shape. -- Secisek (talk) 08:36, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I've done a bit of work on them. The problem is, I think, that most of the article was created by someone who doesn't agree with the mainstream arguments on dating, construction, etc, and put emphasis on those aspects both in the article itself and the links (which is why I guess so many of the links are about construction, with few about anything else other than views). I'm sure there are a number of links that should be included and are not.Doug Weller (talk) 09:06, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, work must continue to preserve the GA rating. -- Secisek (talk) 10:53, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Egyptian pyramid construction techniques

This article: Egyptian pyramid construction techniques needs serious work before this one does. -- Secisek (talk) 10:53, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GA

Following revision, the article would likely pass GAR as is. Any new material added must be cited with reliable sources to maintain this status. -- Secisek (talk) 19:42, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Design of the Great gallery

The article mentions that the design reason for the small 'sockets' at regular intervals in the gallery has not been found. This is incorrect as the sockets was used to arrest the granite blocking stones now residing in the lower part of the ascending corridor (the lower extension of the gallery). The gallery was simply a necessity if you wanted to store the 'door-stones' inside the pyramid while at the same time being able to pass them before the final closure of the pyramid. This also explains the vertical shaft between the lower corridor and the base of the gallery. This shaft was the exit for the workers who sealed the pyramid (it would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to ascend the shaft thus making it an effective 'one way exit' for the workers. It is also interesting to note that the 'grave robbers corridor' (The modern entrance) ends exactly behind the last of the blocking stones in the ascending corridor indicating that the people making that corridor had inside information (pun intended) about the internal arrangement of the corridors and thus likely the corridor was made less than 100 years after the pyramid was finished (possibly by the same workers who made the pyramid of relatives of officials with access to the archives where information of the pyramid may have been kept). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yazeran (talk • contribs) 17:54, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unfinished Chamber

Could it be that the Unfinished Chamber was excavated to check for cracking or other signs of stress in the bedrock beneath the pyramid? Virgil H. Soule (talk) 02:45, 28 May 2008 (UTC) zbvhs