{"id":510,"date":"2008-10-24T00:22:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T05:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2008-10-24T00:36:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T05:36:20","slug":"secret-of-egypts-great-pyramid-bob-brier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/secret-of-egypts-great-pyramid-bob-brier\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret of Egypt&#8217;s Great Pyramid &#8211; Bob Brier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/1h0462.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[510]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style='float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0 0;' src=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/1h0462.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1h0462\" width=\"184\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-511\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThursday evening Dylan and I went to see Prof. Bob Brier give a talk on the Secret of Egypt&#8217;s Great Pyramid.  He presented evidence that supports French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin&#8217;s theory that an *interior* ramp was built and used to raise the huge blocks to the top of the 480-ft. high Great Pyramid of Giza.  A few *million* such blocks (averaging about 2.5 tons each) were used to construct the pyramid.  Fascinating talk\/slide show.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/006165552X\/104-0553807-9763937\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 10px;' src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41%2BUvdJESrL._SL210_.jpg\" alt=\"Secret of the Great Pyramid\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the talk Prof. Brier was signing copies of his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/006165552X\/104-0553807-9763937\"><em>The Secret of the Great Pyramid<\/em><\/a>.  He inscribed my copy with the neatest inscription I have yet to get from an author.  He wrote an Egyptian prayer &#8211; in hieroglyphs.  It reads, &#8220;<em><strong>May you be given life, stability, and prosperity like Ra, forever.<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.  Beat that!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/brierinscription800.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[510]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/brierinscription800-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"brierinscription800\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/brierinscription800-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/brierinscription800.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/bigphotos\/images\/070402-great-pyramid_big.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[510]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/bigphotos\/images\/070402-great-pyramid_big.jpg\" alt=\"Interior pyramid\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday evening Dylan and I went to see Prof. Bob Brier give a talk on the Secret of Egypt&#8217;s Great Pyramid. He presented evidence that supports French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin&#8217;s theory that an *interior* ramp was built and used to raise the huge blocks to the top of the 480-ft. high Great Pyramid of Giza. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}