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THE BUILDING THE GREAT GIZEH PYRAMID According to this fascinating theory, the Great Pyramid incorporated a pump design that utilised water and chemical power to raise the massive stone blocks to higher levels. ichard Noone seriously embarked on his quest to unravel some of the secrets of the ancient world when, in 1975, he started research for his book, 5/5/2000 Ice: The Ultimate Disaster. Seven years later, he found a publisher (Crown Publishing in New York) willing to publish his findings on ancient civilisations and the role of massive Earth changes in their demise. In 1997, Crown released a revised edition of his book with an exciting new epilogue which presents additional evidence that the Egyptians did not build the Great Pyramid with grunt slave labour dragging 20-ton, 90-ton and 200-ton blocks around the country on wooden sleds. To quote Peter Tompkins, author of Secrets of the Great Pyramid: "Richard Noone's painstaking investigation into the lost technology of the sophisticated builders of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh helps to unravel the mystery of this geodetic and astronomic wonder, answering questions as to who constructed it, when, how and why. Just the manner in which the casing stones were cut to optometric precision and accurately placed and fitted without damage could not be accomplished today with the advanced engineering of our space age. Research by Noone also highlights the continued struggle of scholars against the pitted obscurantism of the local authorities who continue to block research into what must be considered the patrimony not only of Egypt but of humanity." Noone commences with what his research reveals about how the construction of the Great Pyramid began. "When the builders arrived, they saw a rocky knoll and a plateau that the pyramids sit on today. The first thing they had to do was level-off the construction site. The Great Pyramid is still level to within a half-inch over its thirteen-and-a-half-acre base. That is quite extraordinary; far better than we do on our buildings today. The obvious way for them to have done this would have been for them to cut channels or ditches into the rock of the site, then fill those ditches with water and drill away the rock between each ditch, using the water in each trench as a levelling mechanism. "However, the one thing that most TV shows do not show is that the builders left a large rocky hill at the centre of the construction site. The reason for that was so that the well shaft which was dug through the rock hill to the bottom of the Grand Gallery and joins the Descending Passage underground to the Grand Gallery. What they had done was cut the one passageway straight down to the subterranean pit [referred to in Noone's book as the Chamber of Chaos or upside-downedness]. This pit has a smooth ceiling, a rough floor and a hole in it, and a saucer-shaped bowl. "In any event, we all know that water will seek its own level. So when you have your construction site to the stage where you have a tunnel which follows a tortuous path and you have a shaft going down that joins up in an 'L-shaped' connection with the Descending Passage, you can utilise water which would be poured down that shaft, filling up the subterranean pit, and at the same time the air that was in the pit would be com- pressed against the ceiling. Once the water compresses the air against the ceiling of the lower compression chamber or pit, it would force water back up the lower diagonal. At one time there was a hinged granite door that only opened inward and downward, as I show in my book. Water rushing down there would go back up only until it hit this door or check valve, slamming it shut. Then, water would be forced to rise up the well shaft, the purpose being to bring water to the centre of the construction site above. "At least one of the blocks in the Great Pyramid weighed 300 tons. Today, we don't have a crane on Earth that can lift 300 tons. The maximum lift for cranes I think is around 200 tons. Not only would a lift like that be difficult by today's standards, but positioning An interview with Richard W. Noone by Alexander Horvat First published in World Explorer (vol. 1, no. 10, 1997) © Revised 1998 An interview with Richard W. Noone by Alexander Horvat First published in World Explorer (vol. 1, no. 10, 1997) © Revised 1998 NEXUS 41 DECEMBER 1998 - JANUARY 1999