Overview
- Dr Simon Andreas Scheuring of Weill Cornell Medicine outlines an internal counterweight and pulley-like system to lift stones within Khufu’s pyramid.
- His calculations estimate placement rates up to one block per minute and capacity for blocks approaching 60 tonnes.
- The Grand Gallery and Ascending Passage are reinterpreted as sloped internal ramps for sliding counterweights based on wear and polish marks.
- The Antechamber is cast as a pulley-like lifting station, with grooves and stone supports cited as evidence of a functional mechanism.
- The model aligns with recent muon-scanning surveys that have not revealed large voids and predicts only smaller corridors or remnants might remain higher in the structure.