Beforehand the distinction between the blocks made of limestone (2.5
tonnes average) which constitute the body of the pyramid, and the 52
monoliths made of granite (30 tonnes average) which cover the King's room
must be stressed. Logically enough, these two types of blocks cannot be
brought into play according to the same lifting and transportation
technique:
- the first ones are hauled up from one foundation to the next with the
help of a simple piece of machinery made out of wood: a lever on a tripod,
generating a "stairs'" system,
- the second ones must be hauled up by sliding on slopes that will be
built at the right time by anticipation of the construction of the North
face, following the same ("stair's") system,
- at last, a third kind of stone - limestone or granite - forming the
last layer, will be laid according to the same above system and then
cleaned.
The method of construction is a true "constructive system" known as "the
process of pyramidal growth" which is based on :
- to then lay the block on two other preliminary blocks
- and this without forgetting to shift the block in a corbelled way, on
the inner side, corresponding to an entablature on the exterior side of the
edifice. This lay out is typical of the intersecting joints equipment (in
both axis) that secures the optimal coherence of the edifice. It however
necessitates an adjustment of the foundation of each block that, as we will
see later, are not regular.
- the repetition of this recurring
movement, block after block like stairs, side by side
- generating coats or successive layers which fit into each other,
starting from a little pyramid in the centre of the basis allowing to
increase the pyramid through simple homothetic transformation, through
simple additional repetition.

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Figure : modelling at scale 1/10
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and at scale 1/3
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This process is easy to model, in the old days just as nowadays, with
more or less standardised elements: bricks, pieces of sugar - actually
derived from modelling -, the elementary movement representing an algorithm.
This model that "can only generates pyramids" is moreover interactive and
predicative.

Figure : modelling
of the "pyramidal growth" process, by successive envelopes, rom an
elementary [4+1] little pyramid at the centre of the base, side by side,
block by block according to the algorithm
The model is interactive :
- the process allows to build, in time of the erection of the body of the
pyramid, the entire inside devices of Cheops' pyramid: rooms, corridors
(horizontal, ascending and descending), Great Gallery and ventilation
shafts, the shapes and locations of which are corollary to the system
- by anticipation of the construction of the North face, a inclined plane is
built, along with a number of other parallel and supperposed inclined
planes, in which, at the right time, a corridor and/or Gallery can be
arranged
- monoliths made of granite ( and of limestone ) of the King's room, will
then be slide up, in the open, by way of those inclined planes, which the
ascending corridor and Great Gallery are the archaeological proof of.

Figure :
by anticipation of the construction on one side,
inclined plans can be built and a corridor, a room that will end up inside
the pyramid, after the building of the four sides is complete

Figure : the
inclined plans allow the positioning, through sliding, of the monoliths
(average of 30 tonnes each) constituting the King's room, the raising
devices and the arch of discharge which corresponds to the last
possible inclined
plan from the foot of the pyramid
1- entrance
2- descending corridor
3- underground room
4- ascending corridor
5- shaft view
6- Queen's room
7- Great Gallery
8- portcullis' anteroom
9- King's room
10- raising and dump)
- the Great Gallery in profile : central slide and lateral
benches/mortises regularly placed all along as a "trammel" , and the 5 or 6
future pad-blocks(10) made of granite which, put together ( 5 of 6 tonnes
each of them), will serve as counterweight, must be understood as an
"extraordinary oblique lift", allowing to haul up - by the balance of forces
- all the.

Figure : an
"extraordinary oblique lift", with rack, counter-weight (pad-blocks)
- these monoliths made of granite are used to support and raise the arch of
discharge made of limestone (strained by the compression ) to the exact
height so that the descending charge will not push into the vacuum of the
Great Gallery, which would put its balance and the perenniality(12) at risk.
- all these devices will then be contained in the pyramid by the
continuation of the building on the four faces.
The model is predicative and can be tested; it imposes that :
- the monoliths of this arch of discharge must be the last to be placed
through the set of slopes and the elevator. They actually correspond to the
last possible inclined plane to be included inside the pyramid, the line,
parallel to the ascending corridor, drawn from the bottom of the pyramid
verifies it.
- The angle of the pyramid being given, the angle of the ascending
corridor is corollary to it, imposed by the covering (1/3 and 2/3) of the
blocks. For an angle of tg a=1.25, which is the case for Cheops(13), the
angle b of the ascending corridor is then such as tg b=1/2, which already
seems to be verified.
- The blocks of the stratums (of an average proportion of two cubits by
three) must be laid perpendicular to the side of the pyramid on each side.
The fact that each edge belongs to one of the sides and that the angle
blocks cannot be crossed(1) comes as a result. These blocks are then easy to
remove by pushing them to fall down. This imposed disposition is verified.

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Figure : layout of the blocks on
the S.W. edge
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and on the top (notice the notches)
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- The juxtaposition and the superposition of blocks of different
heights impose, for each block placed for good - when its name changes - to
be restored, by notching the inferior block, to a flat and horizontal
foundation, in order to achieve the right sequencing and the right dropping
of the weight forces and, ultimately, the perenniality of the edifice. These
notches are visible on the stratums of the pyramid, and particularly easy to
locate on the edges and the top of the pyramid. They even constitute a
famous Pelagsian device made of stone named "horizontal recess device" by
A.Choisy that he qualified as "the most sparing device".
- The perpendicular layout of the blocks on each side of the pyramid and the
recovery of the blocks on the levelled top of the Pyramid of Cheops seem to
also be verified by the optical restitution "camera lucida" provided by
E.W.Lane in 1827. It becomes then possible to know exactly to which side and
layer each block of the top belongs.

Figure : optical
restitution of the leveled top of Cheops and interpretation a color for each
side by the author
Finally the pyramid will be covered by a last coat brought into play in the
same way -made of fine limestone, of granite, or of stone coming from the
same origin- that will be then cleaned by knocking down the nosing of the
stratums, "the pyramid will be completed starting from the top" - dixit
Herodotus - because this cleaning executed backwards, from top to bottom,
eliminated all the entablatures on which to rest the tripod. It is then
impossible to add any other block to the edifice.
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