But for all the myriad of ways that have been suggested, every one can be found to contain
flaws and none can yet provide an adequate explanation that accounts for all the variables.
There are many ancient stele and paintings that exist depicting almost every conceivable aspect
of everyday ancient Egyptian life but have you ever considered that not one exists that depicts the
building of the pyramids or of people ever even man-handling massive stone blocks?
Ultimately no-one really seems to know who it was done by or how it was done – not yet.
The Great Pyramid
The Great Pyramid is the largest and most controversial of the three large Giza Pyramids. It
stands at one side of the three. It’s not the one in the middle with the limestone casing still intact
near its summit as many erroneously believe but is in fact the pyramid behind that one, the one
that has been completely stripped of its limestone casing and is missing the cap stone (The
missing cap stone is an intriguing mystery all on its own). But before we continue, some facts
about the Great Pyramid must be taken into account, if only to answer the question: Why all the
debate? So please first consider these rather interesting points:
The Great Pyramid (fig.71) is about as high as a 40 story building and contains an estimated 23
million blocks of rectangular limestone, each weighing an average of 2.5 tons (though the exact
number is still an issue for contention and recent x-rays have revealed there actually may be as
little a half that amount). The blocks are fitted together so precisely that a thin knife blade cannot
be inserted between any of them. In its finished state it was covered with smooth limestone casing
Fig.71stones which created a surface that weathered to harden and become smoother and shinier with
age causing the pyramid to reflect the Sun and shine brightly from a distance. Napoleon described
it as shining like a diamond on the distant horizon. It is said that in those days it was actually
visible from Palestine. Its sides rise up from the ground at a uniform 51 degrees and it is almost
perfectly square and level. So great is its accuracy that no other structure that has been built,
either before or since, is comparable to it. Even those buildings constructed recently using
modern laser methods cannot equal the accuracy of this single ancient stone structure. The
method employed to square and level the base prior to commencing its construction is also a total
mystery because, to make matters even more difficult, a large hump of bedrock exists near the