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It's the only one of the seven wonders of the world that is still standing today.

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5 million tons of stone stacked 146 meters high, 45 hundred years ago.

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The great pyramid of Kufu is the tallest, largest and most enigmatic of all the

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farerallic constructions.

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45 centuries later, the mystery lives on.

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How was the pyramid actually built?

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French architect Jopiel Udha has been investigating this question for ten years.

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He's scrutinized and studied the monument with the eye of an expert as if you were going

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to rebuild the whole thing himself.

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Today, at the end of his investigations and with the help of new technology, he's offering

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a revolutionary solution.

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The beauty of managed to solve the mystery of the great pyramid of Kufu.

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To understand the mystery of the pyramids, we need to go back in time to the era when Egypt,

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built these enormous tombs.

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On the Giza Plateau, these mountains of stone are the masterpieces of a civilization whole

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heartedly committed to the quest for eternity.

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Pyramids were the sacred gateways that led kings pass through to the land of immortal life

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after death.

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The Egyptians built the finest and most impressive of them in a single century at the

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close of the prehistoric era.

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The first ones were step pyramids, like the pyramid of Joseh at Sakada.

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After the 26th century BC, the first true smooth-sided pyramids were the work of a single

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family, headed by Snephrou, who was the father of Kufu and grandfather of Kifrin.

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Originally, the outer surface of the tombs was made of a smooth layer of dazzling white limestone

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blocks, pyramids were the earthly incarnation of the sun's rays.

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As time went by, these other stones got pillaged in order to build palaces, temples

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and mosques.

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Kufu still has a few left at its base, and Kifrin has managed to keep it to original stone

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layer at the top.

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Kifrin was the last monumental pyramid that Egypt built.

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This period of amazing technological progress only lasts a century.

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Not long after, Egypt underwent serious climate changes.

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The country was plagued by drought and ravaged by civil wars, invasions and social

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strife.

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The secrets of the pyramids' construction got lost during these tumultuous times.

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Recently, archaeologists have discovered the village that housed the workers who built

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these monuments, 4,500 years ago.

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Egyptologists have unearthed numerous clues into their way of life.

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They were well fed and decently housed.

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They were given meat, beer and bread.

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The excavations have even shown that the workers were not slaves as it was once believed.

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They were proud to serve their Pharaoh and accompany him on his journey to the afterlife.

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But none of this fascinating research yielded any new information about the methods used

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to build the pyramids, especially not for the biggest and most complex of them all, Kufu.

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The towering at 146 meters, it was the tallest man-made structure ever built until the

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end of the 19th century.

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Kufu is also the only pyramid with a granite chamber tucked away at its heart, with beams

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weighing over 60 tons, a genuine challenge within the challenge.

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The pyramids staggering height and this granite chamber are the two key mysteries surrounding

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Kufu's construction.

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Nobody, until now, has ever solved this riddle written in stone.

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Still, many theories have been put forward.

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In the 5th century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus suggested the use of wooden levers.

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Egyptologists then imagine massive ramps leading up to the summit, or else, an external spiral

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ramp.

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But in the end, these theories, which we find in every historical reference book, have never

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been very convincing.

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Today an architect claims to have solved the mystery.

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If he's right, it will turn out to be the most important discovery since two time

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amongst whom was found.

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Jean-Pierreau d'A story begins in January 1999.

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He taken a year off to get some perspective on his life and was looking for a new challenge.

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Then one day, his father sent him a tape of a film he'd seen on TV about the mysteries

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of the pyramids.

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The documentary explored the different theories of how the pyramids were built, but not

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one of them was credible.

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His father, a former public works engineer, got caught up in the mystery and imagined

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a solution.

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The pyramid could have been built from the inside with the help of a circular tunnel.

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Naturally, all he who does shared the idea with his architect's son.

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Is that you a hidee for an antenna ramp?

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Intriguing.

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I will have a look at your drawing and call you back later.

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Jean-Pierreau was fascinated and devoured anything he could get his hands on concerning

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the pyramids.

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He read the most reputable books, studied every drawing and analyzed every theory.

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Almost overnight, he became a fanatical expert on the architectural wonders of ancient Egypt.

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A simple architect was transformed into an obsessional genius.

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He threw himself 100% into his research.

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He closed his architecture firm and sold his apartment to move into a small family studio.

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He worked 10 hours a day developing his father's idea, adopting it in keeping with the

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ancient Egyptians no-ah.

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So your ramp is air.

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See?

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It's basically a great idea.

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But I think we should break it up into sections like this.

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Seems logical, a spiral with right angles and see.

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It goes up like this.

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Well, all you have to do is keep working on it.

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Well, I think it might take about 10 years before I can get you on a tunnel ramp.

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There is a lot of work to do.

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The Egyptians didn't know how to build circular tunnels.

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On the other hand, they knew how to make right angled galleries.

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Jumpy up patiently developed his idea of an internal ramp.

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His ramp would enable limestone blocks to be halt to the very top.

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146 meters up.

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He believed the ramp would never have more than a 7% inclined, because otherwise,

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it would be too steep for dragging up the stones.

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Notches at each right angle would allow the stones to be turned and also provide

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ventilation for the tunnels.

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It was a brilliant theory.

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Revolutionary even.

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But it still had to be proven.

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It was time for Jean-Pierre to shift into high gear, but for that,

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he needed to convince the learned specialists and top experts.

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He spent several months contacting various Egyptologists.

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But no one bothered to reply.

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It was sick and tired of receiving yet another new theory about the pyramids.

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They didn't even bother to look at his dossier.

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Jean-Pierre didn't belong to the club.

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He was nothing but an outsider.

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And yet, the pyramids' construction is definitely an architects business.

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At least as much if not more so, they need to apologize.

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No one's a profit in their own land.

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After trying his luck with French scientists,

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Jean-Pierre said his sights on the US.

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In New York, one renowned egyptologist finally agreed to meet him.

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Jean-Pierre pulled out his last playing card.

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To get to Egypt and verify his theory, Jean-Pierre needed an inn.

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Bob Breyer looked like he might be the man.

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The key that would move is investigation forward.

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Welcome to the Bronx.

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Thank you.

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Come on in.

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When he opened his laptop, there were several of us in my apartment.

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And we all gathered around the laptop to see what he had.

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And he had his beautiful, beautiful diagrams of the pyramid.

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Things I had never seen.

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He had created them on the laptop.

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And he started explaining his theory.

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The architect presented his revolutionary idea.

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The pyramid could have been built from the inside out.

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OK.

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So there's a ramp inside the pyramid.

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The rope inside.

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Is it still there?

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She was there.

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Yes.

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And now I thought the theory was incredible.

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I wasn't sure.

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You know, there are other theories about the pyramid,

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but they all have problems.

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This theory solved some of those problems.

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But it was just so amazing that I just couldn't believe it could be true at first.

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So what did you think the first time you saw the pyramid?

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So first time I saw the pyramid.

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Let me tell you, Bob.

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I never went to the pyramid.

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Then you never saw it.

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You were working on this thing for five years.

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And you haven't seen the pyramid.

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Why not?

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Because I think it's an intellectual work.

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It's something.

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I think also that I am completely free.

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It's a concept.

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At the base, the architect would draw the pyramid.

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I have no pyramid in front of them.

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If anybody's going to take your theory seriously,

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you have to see the pyramid.

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Bob Breyer was hooked by the story and Jean-Pierre's theory.

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He decided to help him and convinced him to finally go to Egypt.

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Finally.

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Five years after he began his investigation,

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Jean-Pierre would not discover the pyramids.

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I would not say it was a place where he was not there.

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And went, whoa, I was pyramid.

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I was impressed.

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Like everyone.

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But I was already so familiar with it.

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I knew it inside and out.

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I saw it in a different way.

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I knew where every stone was,

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every third detail, every little drawing.

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I felt that one.

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Thanks to Bob Breyer, he enjoyed the rare privilege of a private tour.

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We are in the sea of France.

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This is where tourists come in now.

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This entrance was opened up by the Caddiff Mammon around 850 AD,

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to rob the pyramid.

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The real entrance is about seven meters east of this corridor.

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If we keep going, we will arrive at the corridor

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that leads up to the Grangerie and the King Shambar.

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But Jean-Pierre is not a tourist.

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He's looking for clues.

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And the heart of the ferry-on-a-c structure

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is priorities to find evidence to back his theory.

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He's intrigued by a number of details.

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These regularly spaced rectangular holes.

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And these chisel marks all along the Grangallery.

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Finally, he reaches the King's chamber, made entirely out of granite.

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Digmatic beams above him, weighing about 60 tons of peace,

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form a flat ceiling.

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An aberration for the time, considering the thousands of tons of stone piled above it.

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The chamber is a real architectural feat.

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He admires the joints between the stones,

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they're perfect, not even a razor blade that slip into the cracks.

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How did the Egyptians manage to transport stone blocks of this size

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into the heart of the pyramid?

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Jean-Pierre's internal ramp doesn't solve this problem.

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It is the second riddle of the great pyramid he needs to tackle.

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At the top of the Grangallery, there's a narrow passage, leading above the King's chamber.

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It gives access to five stories of granite beams, called relieving chambers.

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These are topped with an enormous gabled limestone roof.

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The blocks alleviate the weight pressing down on the roof of the funeral chamber.

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Without this ingenious system, the ceiling of the King's chamber and the Grangallery would have collapsed.

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But the granite beams suffered some cracks during construction.

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To check the extent of the damage, the Kufu builders opened up this passage

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that leads straight to the heart of the brilliant architectural system.

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Among the Griffides crawled by unscrupulous visitors,

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Jean-Pierre looks for the cartouch of Pharaoh Kufu,

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first discovered at the beginning of the 19th century.

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The king's chamber is the most important part of the kingdom.

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The king's chamber is the most important part of the kingdom.

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The king's chamber is the most important part of the kingdom.

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We are in the heart of the pyramid.

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It's absolutely incredible.

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And there are hundreds of thousands of tons right above our heads,

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and it's all held up by these beams.

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And it's been here for 45 centuries.

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It's for something.

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You can just feel how can it is.

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The serenity is pretty moving.

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Isn't it?

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At the Egyptian Museum in Cairo,

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the treasures of the Pharaohs are on display.

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Millions of pieces chronicle the prestigious history of one of humanity's most brilliant civilizations.

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But paradoxically, only two elements are directly linked to the Great Pyramid.

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Today, Jean-Pierre has an appointment with the man who designed and built the greatest pyramid of all times.

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Ironically, the only image of Kufu that is survived

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is just a few centimeters tall.

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A miniscule ivory figurine discovered by chance in a temple in 1903.

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Despite the absence of monumental statues or barreliefs, Kufu's memory is still very much alive.

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An enigmatic's thinks, he continues to intrigue the entire world

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with the mystery of how his pyramid was built.

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Jean-Pierre also wants to see what he considers one of the greatest treasures at the Cairo Museum.

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A 4,500-year-old Cedarwood sled.

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Most visitors hardly pay any attention to what seems like some playing every day object.

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Yet, it's a unique piece that offers insight into the pyramid's construction.

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It was like gold for the Egyptians because the fortune was to bring wood from Lebanon.

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So they use it up to the end.

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Back in Kufu's days, the Egyptians didn't know about the wheel.

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They used the Cedar sleds to haul stone blocks.

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Considering the tools available to them, the Egyptians accomplished amazing technical feats.

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Their monumental constructions of weathered thousands of years, they bear witness to the

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genius of these men for antiquity and continue to fascinate Egyptologists in architects today.

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Bob Brayer is convinced of the importance of Jean-Pierre's theory.

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He joins him in Cairo to help him find new clues and evidence.

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To prepare for their expedition the next day, they begin by taking stock of some of the building's theories

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other people have come up with. Most involve some kind of ramp, but have made your flaws according

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to the architect.

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Isaiah is too steep. He had lots of big problem with these ramps.

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It's a huge problem. Isaiah is too steep or it's too long and then it costs a coin.

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Because it's too high. It has to be one point six kilometers and then the world would be

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bigger than the pyramids itself. This one is really steep. Good for skid jumps

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of the Olympics. It's fine for that.

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I tell me what's this?

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This one is interesting. Yes, because one point six kilometers are not in front of the

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pyramid, but all around it.

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This type of external spiral ramp around the pyramid raises a number of questions.

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How could such a ramp be attached to a smooth-sided pyramid?

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How do you turn a corner with 600 men? Considering that's how many people you needed to pull

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a 60-ton granite block. Besides, with this type of external ramp, you couldn't check the geometry

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during construction. If the edges weren't perfectly aligned and controlled, the pyramid could end up twisted.

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For these reasons, jump here's theory suggests there were two ramps.

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First, an external ramp that only went 43 meters high. This would have allowed the first two

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thirds of the pyramid's total volume to be put in place as well as the granite blocks for the

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King's chamber. In addition to this, the Egyptians would have built a second ramp inside the pyramid.

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This system offers a solution to the two key problems the Kufu pyramid presented.

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It's height 146 meters and it's unique granite chamber.

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Once they reached the critical level of 43 meters and the granite blocks had been brought up for the

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King's chamber, the Egyptians would have dismantled the first ramp and recycled the blocks it was made of,

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hauling them up the internal ramp to finish the pyramid. Nothing would have been wasted.

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Now the theory needs to be proven. They need to find evidence of his internal ramp.

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Bob has an idea.

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15 kilometers south of Cairo, the Egyptologist takes Shompia to the ruins of a temple that was dedicated

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to the sun, built 100 years after Kufu. The temple was destroyed at the end of the 19th century,

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but the architects drawing of it still exists. On the drawing, we can see that the temple had a corridor,

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similar to Jompios internal ramp. Our two investigators want to see for themselves what's left of it.

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We should be able to imagine the room. Well, you don't have to imagine the Jompia.

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Turn around. Yes. You see an internal ramp. Yes.

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Is that a man? Yes, sure. That's just one shoe.

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It's the first you turn. Yes, we go here. It's a quarter turn ramp like mine. Yes, let me show you something up here.

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You're going to like it. Now this block for the ceiling, right?

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That's fine. Yeah, that's fine. We're going to put the seal for the sky, right?

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And there are stars here. You see them?

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Yeah, there's little circle and it radiates out. Yes, all over the block. So this was the ceiling block for the internal ramp.

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Look at the diagram though. Let's just see what we could figure out. So we came up the ramp here.

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Yes. And we made the turn here. Yes. Right. And this block, what do you think?

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Good. Good. Maybe is this one? Oh, right? Is this one?

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So this block could be here or here. This ceiling block. Yes. So it's definitely internal ramp, right?

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Yes. This is the way to be.

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These remains of an internal ramp prove that the ancient Egyptians knew how to build this type of

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corridor at the time of Kufu. An important step towards confirming the architects hypothesis.

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But the demonstration isn't over yet.

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Another important aspect of Jean Pierre's theory can also be tested out in the field.

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He believes that to form a perfect pyramid, the Egyptians must have laid the outer surface blocks first

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rather than last, like many previous theories claim.

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This would have allowed the overall form and angles of the pyramid to be monitored throughout construction.

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To understand this principle, they need to make a trip to Dasur, about 30 km south of Cairo.

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Jean Pierre and Bob are particularly interested in these magnificent casing stones.

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The outer layer is made of white limestone blocks that weigh between four and five tons,

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and erupted two meters thick twice as big as the stones positioned behind them.

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Architecturally speaking, this is a fact of major importance.

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Jebuk the casing stone over already placed and put it in place on this block.

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And after the kept on, it's like that also where to the top.

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So this had to be put in smooth right from the beginning.

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It's a concrete evidence that the casing is done as a pyramid rise.

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And south side of the pyramid is finished first.

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The casing stones would have had to be laid first, allowing the geometry of the pyramid to be monitored

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as the building advanced. Next, the Egyptians would have positioned the second row of well-humed stones,

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followed by rougher blocks of various sizes that acted as a kind of filler.

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This would have allowed them to work faster and finished building in about 20 years,

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like it is mentioned in ancient Egyptian manuscripts.

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The clues Champière has gathered out in the field, or encouraging for the investigation.

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But he wants to find proof that the internal ramp actually existed.

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You can see two white ish lines about two-cells up.

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Oddling enough, these phantom lines reflect the exact position of the internal ramp

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with the same 7% slope.

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Is the pyramid brising? Is it an optical illusion or a thermal phenomenon?

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It's pretty strange.

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In order to detect the internal ramp, the pyramid would have to be scanned.

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The different densities inside it would need to be measured.

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This would provide physical and therefore undeniable scientific proof of the ramp's existence.

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Actually, a similar study was already done in 1986.

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Back at the time, a team of French engineers analyzed the kufu pyramid using a technique called

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micro-gravimetry. This method allows us to see minor variations in mass and density.

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In fact, it involves detecting what scientists call zones of significant sub-density

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in other words empty spaces. For months, the technicians took thousands of measurements

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both inside and outside the pyramid.

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The team was an interested in figuring out how it was built. They were hoping to find a secret chamber.

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In this respect, their mission was a total failure.

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Scientific publications of their study were completely unnoticed.

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Yet, without realizing it, these engineers may have found the scientific proof

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that Jopia who does have been looking for for so many years.

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Jopia contacted one of the scientists who worked on the mission.

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Who he don't boo is a member of the French science academy and a call-politeknik

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Francis Aquiland of MIT.

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We found that the sub-density, the density deficit, formed something that was like a spiral of

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spirale, a spiral shape. Exactly. A spiral shape, but in sub-density, right in sub-density.

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The white and green show the sub-density zones. Sub-density?

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It was drawn by hand. My colleague did it. We're really sees a spiral. We see the spiral

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the sub-density zone in white.

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The micro-grave metric study shows that in relation to the pyramid's volume,

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15% of its mass is missing. The empty spaces inside the monument seemed to form a spiral.

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Back in 1986, Louis Dong-Bui and his colleagues didn't know what to make of this startling discovery.

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Now, in light of Jopia who does theory of the internal rub, the study makes sense.

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Micro-grave imagery offers the scientific proof the architect needed.

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This irrefutable element convinces Jopia to devote his life to solving the mystery

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of how the great pyramid of Kufu was built.

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Jopia who does now firmly convinced that the internal rub is definitely there,

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just a few meters behind these blocks of stone. But he's now looking for more proof that the

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ramp really exists. If we continue along the phantom lines we'd seen before,

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we come to something of absolutely fascinating. According to his calculations, this hole

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located at the northeast angle of the pyramid lies directly on the path of the internal rub.

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Would this be what remains from one of the notches that allowed the Egyptians to turn the stone blocks?

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They'll need to take a closer look, but climbing the pyramid is prohibited.

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It's dangerous and many tourists have already suffered accidents.

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Look at the shape of this notch.

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Okay. The pavement?

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Okay.

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The walls?

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Yes.

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Take plenty of pictures.

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Plenty of pictures.

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Okay.

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And come back safe.

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It's a deal.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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That being said, the Egyptian authorities are willing to make an exception for certain Egyptologists,

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along with a cameraman who's an excellent mountain climber.

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Bob Bryers gonna check out what the notch looks like up close.

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Oh, yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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Hmm.

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We're getting that.

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Slowly, but surely we're getting that.

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Slowly, we're getting that.

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Whoa.

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Oh.

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Whoa.

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Which really dark?

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Bob wasn't expecting this dark space.

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He hasn't even brought a flashlight powerful enough to light it.

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I think this is interesting.

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It's not the internal ran, but it's still very interesting.

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Why is this space so big?

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As you can see, they fought out.

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Photos.

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Photos for Jean Pierre.

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The space wasn't carved out from the stone.

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It visibly dates back to the pyramid's construction.

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There is no description of it in any Egyptological book.

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Up till now, no one has ever investigated this architectural curiosity.

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Could the existence of this unanticipated room be further evidence of an internal ramp?

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One that's still there.

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Well, you see, if I feel in the air coming out, no.

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It's not like a breeze or anything like that, so I don't know how far it goes.

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It's not exactly an internal ramp, but it's a big space.

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I think Jean Pierre will be interested.

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I really don't know what it's for, maybe just an accident to construction, maybe it's not.

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He'll know better than me.

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Back at the hotel, Jean Pierre studies Bob's photos.

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Then he checks the plans of the pyramid to see whether there's any drawing or description

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of the empty space behind the notch anywhere.

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Even if he knows there isn't, he's sorry he couldn't see it from self.

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Jean Pierre feels he is so close and yet still so far,

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from solving the mystery.

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However, Jean Pierre does have a certain number of elements to confirm his theory.

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The casing stones were definitely placed first.

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This rules out the possibility of an external spiral ramp

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since there's no way it could have been attached to the smooth surface.

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The temple of Nuserayra proves that the ancient Egyptians knew how to build an internal ramp.

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The phantom lines, with their 7% slope, are definitely intriguing.

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The micro-gravimetric results offer undeniable proof that empty spaces in the spiral form,

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like his ramp, actually exist within the pyramid.

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And finally, there's this hollow space Bob discovered behind the notch.

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Although all these elements are convincing,

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another renigma remains at the very heart of the pyramid,

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the King's chamber.

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The theory of the internal ramp works very well for moving limestone blocks that

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weigh about two tons on average.

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But how did the ancient workers manage to haul up the granite stones

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that were so much heavier?

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This is the most remarkable aspect of the investigation

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and the most complex to figure out.

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The one part I'm really not sure about that that really is the grand gallery.

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This idea that the grand gallery was somehow used to raise the blocks to the very top.

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It's interesting. It's the most interesting explanation of the grand gallery

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anybody's ever come up with. But I'm really not sure.

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The external ramp that jump here imagines isn't enough to explain how the huge

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granite blocks removed into the heart of the pyramid.

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On a ramp with a 7% inkline, you'd need 600 men to haul a 60 toned block,

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but coordinating so many men would be an impossible task.

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Jump here thinks the key to the mystery is the grand gallery itself.

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His convince the gallery was the key element of a gigantic system of counterweights

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that would have made it possible for just 100 men to move the enormous granite blocks.

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The grand gallery is truly an impressive structure.

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8 meters high, 48 meters long, and a 50% rate of inkline,

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it has fascinated everyone who's ever entered it.

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The layout makes no sense from a ceremonial point of view. Could it have been built for practical reasons?

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If Jean Pierre's hunch turns out to be right, it'll be a total revolution for

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Egyptology. The stakes are high, so Bob has some very specific questions for the architect.

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Jean Pierre, you are the man with the theory. You got a lot of things to explain.

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First, what are these benches?

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On this bench, you are the roles of these logs.

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On these logs, you have a trolling.

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Yes, for the counterweights system.

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So the trolley runs up and down on logs, which will across the two benches.

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Across the two benches.

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I got another question. They are like 28 of these slots.

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They're important, obviously. It's the first thing you say. What's going on?

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In this slot, you add wooden beams? Yes. What are you doing?

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All beams of all else.

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Keepings of all else. So these roles are like logs.

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Going on a bench, you got the trolling on top of it, and you got beams in here,

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making sure the logs don't go wild.

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Jean Pierre, I understand the role is rolling, the weights are sliding.

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But is there any evidence that this room was actually used?

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I think if you close our look to the bench, on the vertical fence,

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we will find some rease, some scratch left by the wall or straight.

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This thing that looks like a racing stripe on a course, right there.

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It's clear. It's a crown stripe going down. That's greasy, think?

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It's a long bench. Yes, yes, yes. It's the same mark.

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So the trolling, when it goes up and down, they had a lubricated. They put grease.

474
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:26,600
Yes. By going up and down, it's cracked. Sometimes the trolling was shaking a bit.

475
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:31,240
Shaking a bit. Just a small stone and the screw.

476
00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:35,400
It looks like it was used. And it's completely parallel to the bench.

477
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:36,440
No, that's good.

478
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:36,920
Great.

479
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:44,120
There is something more. Look at the salt cobbling.

480
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,640
Look this groove. Yeah, yeah. Run to hallway.

481
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:53,000
On the way on both sides. Well, what was it useful?

482
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:59,400
I think it was used to old, another beam. Yeah.

483
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:05,880
I wouldn't beam, right? On which the pole was sliding on?

484
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:12,600
For the ancient Egyptians, wood was scarce and very precious.

485
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:19,080
According to Jean Pierre, they would have recovered the wooden beams when the pyramid was completed,

486
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:20,840
which explained the chisel marks.

487
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,280
You know, I've been here 50 times and I never noticed that. It goes the whole length.

488
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,960
It fits terrific. So it's another evidence that the thing was really used for a trolling,

489
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:34,280
sliding up and down and that's the stabilizer.

490
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,360
You do much details. Okay.

491
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:39,720
Understand? Yes, too much details. A lot of details.

492
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,480
There's another clue at the top of the gallery.

493
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:57,640
Though this step has been cemented, it was originally chiseled in a V shape.

494
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,040
Maybe to facilitate the sliding of ropes.

495
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:20,120
Jean Pierre could be right, but has he convinced the Egyptologist?

496
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:24,520
It just seems so incredible that they built this fabulous room, this grand gallery,

497
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,360
just to raise the blocks up to the top. But it couldn't be.

498
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:36,920
For the time being, the onsite investigation is over. But Jean Pierre hopes to go further now.

499
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:44,840
Back in Paris, he's contacted by an engineer who tells him about a sponsorship program called

500
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:50,840
Passion for Innovation. The obsessional genius is about to strike again.

501
00:42:55,080 --> 00:43:21,320
The

502
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,320
home here, don't you? Hello, how are you?

503
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:28,040
Maybe this is Jean Pierre will down the architect I was telling you about with a new theory on Kufel.

504
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:32,600
All right, great. Richard told me all about it. Maybe it's that you'll be nice to meet you.

505
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:38,040
What are you doing here? Well, it's actually a simulator that lets you walk

506
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:44,520
in virtual reality. It was summer 2005 at the time I admitted I didn't know the construction

507
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,720
of Kufel was still a mystery. Then he got me all caught up in it.

508
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:54,840
What I liked about Jean Pierre was mainly his enthusiasm and the fact he was an outsider

509
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:59,240
who decided to tackle one of humanity's oldest mysteries and wasn't afraid to do it.

510
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:11,800
Don't you think we could simulate on that? Sure we could.

511
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:19,320
Well, yes, well, I did this by myself. Right, we'll shift in high gear. The starters we can make a

512
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:23,560
3D model, no problem. No reason we can do it for a plane or a car not for a pyramid.

513
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:31,800
DASO systems develop scientific 3D software to design and visualize the finest industrial projects

514
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:38,520
of the future. With these innovative tools, an industrial project can be entirely simulated

515
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:44,360
before making it happen in the real world and designed to engineering to the most unusual

516
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:51,240
architectural project. The software applications are like virtual labs where the coherence and

517
00:44:51,240 --> 00:44:54,840
feasibility of what inventors have come up with get tested out.

518
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,880
Hi guys, how's it going, Jean Pierre?

519
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:13,000
So, after several years of working alone, suddenly Jean Pierre finds himself surrounded by an

520
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:18,760
enthusiastic team of engineers. For two years, they worked on modeling the pyramid

521
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:25,320
and how it was built using their own 3D scientific tools. There were several stages first,

522
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,680
we muddled the wall with the extent of ramp and then part of the pyramid.

523
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:35,400
The engineers entered all the geometry and physical characteristics into the computer

524
00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:37,640
and they put jumpy eyes ideas to the test.

525
00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:48,760
To a simulation, we can show everything works correctly.

526
00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:02,440
Their expertise has even allowed them to explain why the granite beams in the King's chamber

527
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:08,120
cracked, a mystery which in terms of Egyptology has caused much speculation,

528
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:14,440
up until the present scientific analysis. Step by step, they calculated the combined weight on the

529
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:22,360
beams, limestone rafters, then the 83 meters of stonework above that. No cracks appeared. Finally,

530
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:28,680
they added one last factor, a 3 centimeter shift of the southern wall of the King's chamber.

531
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:40,040
With the pyramid completed, look, we lower the southern side, the rafters open up and look here,

532
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:45,960
on the first three ceilings, red, red, red, red, red means worth the granite's breaking point.

533
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:56,120
The engineers also studied the system of counterweight.

534
00:46:56,120 --> 00:47:05,320
To control those down, the beam goes up and the little arrow, what is it?

535
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:10,360
That's the force to apply by manpower. So the force is the number of men.

536
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:15,640
We didn't find anything impossible about John P. S. theory. We're not saying that's how it happened

537
00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:20,200
because we weren't there to see it, but we can't say that it very well could have happened like that.

538
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,240
Mechanically speaking, it's realistic, it holds up.

539
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:35,800
Could Jean Pieloudan have proven his hypothesis? In any case, his theory is the first and only to be confirmed by

540
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:43,800
scientific 3D methods. It is now possible to rebuild Kufu step by step. Nobody has ever gotten this far before.

541
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:56,200
Jean Piel also manages to explain the photos Bob took of the notch.

542
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:03,960
Jean Piel, why don't you send us the pictures Bob took there and Jack will get the simulation going?

543
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:09,000
To see if the reality matches the virtual.

544
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:14,360
Okay? We will get a better idea of what we are seeing.

545
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:20,200
You recreated all the stones. Based on the video image, shot by shot, we recreated all the blocks.

546
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:27,400
Bob got special permission to climb up into the notch. I thought him to take measurements and to look into the holes.

547
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:32,440
He wasn't expecting to find the room? No, and he found a 9-meter square room.

548
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:36,600
And you're saying until now no one's ever described this room, there's no data?

549
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:41,000
No, after that we even did research, but we didn't find anything.

550
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:57,720
So no, you see, we cut the pyramid in slices like a ham and we go down layer by layer.

551
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:04,200
Stop! See? There are ramps that's the top of the cobbling.

552
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:11,960
For them, the internal ramp is behind the walls of this room.

553
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:17,800
See, Medi?

554
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:22,200
Behind this stone, Jack, can you remove that stone? What do we have?

555
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:23,480
Jean Tarnar Womp.

556
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,400
You didn't have an endoscopy camera to go in?

557
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:32,200
We didn't expect that. It's a kind of thing. You feel bad about it.

558
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:34,200
It's just right there.

559
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:37,640
But you know, there should be leaks.

560
00:49:37,640 --> 00:49:41,320
With the thermal camera, we could see the leaks between the stones.

561
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:45,000
The air coming out would be cooler than the air in the room.

562
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:49,000
So you're saying all you need is permission to go back into the room with a thermal camera

563
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,160
and put it right in for those two blocks and then we'd see there's an internal ramp behind them.

564
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:59,000
If we have the green light to go back, we will prove that Jean Tarnar Womp is there.

565
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:06,760
To solve the mystery, all they need now is an authorization.

566
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,640
If Jean Pierre is right, as everything seems to indicate,

567
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,040
the discovery will cause a huge stir.

568
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,560
How much longer will he have to wait? Nobody knows.

569
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:22,440
But he's already been working on this project for 10 years.

570
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,840
He's not afraid of waiting a little longer.

571
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:29,000
When it comes to pyramids, the notion of time is all relative.

572
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:33,560
Meanwhile, he decided to share his theory with the world.

573
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:46,920
The news has circled the entire globe.

574
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:00,520
The news is on one more.

575
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,640
The news is on the other side of the planet, the French Empire,

576
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:05,640
and the same as the other one of the Soviet-German countries.

577
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,040
The Earth is the world's largest pyramids.

578
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:35,320
Rain-Action builders, before one day, climbing the pyramid himself along the internal ramp.