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Houdin published his theory in the books Khufu: The Secrets Behind the Building of the Great Pyramid in 2006 [6] and The Secret of the Great Pyramid, co-written in 2008 with Egyptologist Bob Brier. [7] In Houdin's method, each ramp inside the pyramid ended at an open space, a notch temporarily left open in the edge of the construction.
Houdin's father was an architect who, in 1999, thought of a construction method that, it seemed to him, made more sense than any existing method proposed for building pyramids. To develop this hypothesis, Jean-Pierre Houdin, also an architect, gave up his job and set about drawing the first fully functional CAD architectural model of the Great ...
Jean-Pierre Houdin theorized that they held a timber frame that was used in combination with a trolley to pull the heavy granite blocks up the pyramid. At the top of the gallery, there is a step onto a small horizontal platform where a tunnel leads through the Antechamber, once blocked by portcullis stones, into the King's Chamber.
The History of Ancient Egypt (2001, lectures published by The Teaching Company) Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (2004, lectures published by The Teaching Company) "The Secret of the Great Pyramid" (with Jean-Pierre Houdin) (October 6, 2008)
French specialists in the history of Ancient Egypt ... Pierre Louis Jean Casimir de Blacas; ... Jean-Pierre Houdin; J.
'The Great Pyramids: Chronicle of a Myth') is a 2006 illustrated monograph by French Egyptologist Jean-Pierre Corteggiani. The book was published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of ' Découvertes Gallimard ', together with Néron : Le mal-aimé de l'Histoire , L'affaire Qumrân : Les découvertes de la mer Morte and a new edition of À ...
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I've added a small section, "Jean-Pierre Houdin's "internal ramp" theory", to the Egyptian pyramid construction techniques article. --RenniePet 13:04, 18 August 2007 (UTC) I've added a paragraph which someone previously deleted, about pyramidologists, a serious branch of study of the Pyramid with an intellectual history and wide following.