Giza plateau part 3

The first plan الخطة الأولى 
The enterance leads to the descending corridor measure 120 M long .
Runs first through the core of the pyramid and then through the natural rock ,it leads to the first burial chamber , this chamber was cut in the natural rock and never finished .
  • Its walls and floor are rough condition.
3- There is a blind passage cut in the south wall in this chamber .
The purpose of this blind passage would have been connect this chamber with another one .
Similar to the 2 chambers under the northern pyramid at Dahshur.
But this plan was changed. 
The second plan الخطة التانية 
  • was to build the burial chamber inside the pyramid itself.
  • A hole was cut in the roof of the descending corridor to distance of 18 m from the enterance.
  • An descending corridor was upwards through the core of the pyramid measure 36 m long leads to a horizontal corridor measure 35 m long and 1.75 m high .
Queens chamber 
4- which leads to a chamber in correctly called the queens chamber .
Because there is no evidence that the queens were ever buried within the pyramids of the kings during the old kingdom.
5- It is built entirely limestone and measures 5.2 m * 5.1 m 
            The roof        6.13 m     High 
6- The pavement of the chamber seems never to have been laid .
7- on East side of the chamber is a large recess the purpose which is uncertain and may be intended to contain a statue of the king.
8- Blind shafts were cut in the north and the south walls of the chamber.
They runs for a distance 6.6 feet through the core of the pyramid.
9- Some Egyptologists think that these 2 shafts were ventilation shafts , but  had some religious significance. 
The development of the royal tomb from The predynastic period to the Middle Kingdom تطور المقبرة الملكية من قبل الأسرات إلى الدولة الوسطى
The Great pyramid of king Cheops part 4
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