The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient Egypt
by Christopher Dunn
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Author: Christopher DunnEdition: Paperback
Published: 1998-08-01
ISBN: 1879181509
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Bear & Company
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Book Review: The one and only theory that explains every feature of the Great Pyramid
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been researching the Great Pyramid for almost 40 years. I spent two trips there myself to try to figure out what it was all about, and came away wise enough to say, "I don't know." I didn't agree with any of the existing theories. All of them had holes in them - usually big enough to drive a Mack truck through. Most of them are something out of silly season.
For those of you who have never been there, the Great Pyramid - and the others of its dynasty - is a very technological construction. Yes, the blocks were fitted better than what we today do with our buildings. Yes, they cut 2-tom limestone blocks with some technology far better than copper chisels. Yes, they cut diorite and red granite, and polished it to flatnesses as well or better than we do today - to less than .002" per foot in all directions - something that today is VERY expensive to do. But we don't do it with blocks that weigh up to 70 tons - and then use them as plugs in passages.
Something was happening back then that archeology wants us to think was done with round stone balls and a bunch of people barely out of the bronze age. And we are told that it was all done to assuage the ego of some guy who wanted to 'go to heaven' in style.
Archaeologists simply don't give ancient peoples enough credit, in categorizing them all as incapable of technology beyond ropes and rolling logs. The Egyptians, as Dunn points out, were able to cut fragile STONE (not clay) into VERY thin-walled ROUND vessels - obviously machined on the INSIDE as well as the outside - that needed fabulous control over the cutting tools that made them. The thinness of these vessels is something to behold. But they did it with copper tools and dropping round stone balls, ha ha. And how does one make ROUND anything, without the wheel and axle?
Dunn's theory covers not just the WHAT, but the WHY, of building the Great Pyramid. He addresses WHY the subterranean chamber is the way it is, WHY there were salts found piled high in the Queen's Chamber, WHY there are notches in the ramped floor of the Grand Gallery, WHY the floor of the Ante-Chambers to the King's Chamber are acoustically designed, WHY the tops of the Roof beams in the King's Chamber are rough-cut, yet definitely machined, WHY the walls of the King's Chamber are shifted outward in all directions, WHY the 'Air Shafts' are the way they are and the SIZE they are, and many, many MORE specific parts of the Great Pyramid are the way they are.
And he rolls it all into ONE explanation. It is not one that Egyptologists agree with, but it certainly holds a lot more water than their silly theories.
Dunn gives the Egyptians credit for having a high level of intelligence. He does so, because as an engineer and before that a master machinist, he recognizes technology when he sees it. Egyptologists are not trained in anything technological, so when they see something that IS, they literally blind to the importance of it. They know dynasty lists, and how to read hieroglyphs, and how to excavate sites carefully, but when they come up against evidence of high intelligence, they have to fall back on mumbo-jumbo, "It is for religious ceremony" explanations. Dunn sees exacting cutting having been done, and he gets impressed with anyone who can accomplish it. And well he should.
I am a Mechanical Engineer myself, and am completely impressed with the evidence Dunn has collected into one complete theory. Let me tell you that Mechanical Engineers are not easily convinced. Can my judgment be wrong? Certainly. On each and every point, Dunn explains what he sees, what could possibly explain what it could be doing, and how it all came to be. It all fits.
Be aware that that last 3-word sentence is in itself an amazing statement. Why do I say that? Because NO ONE else has ever had an explanation for EVERY feature in the Great Pyramid.
In the years since this book came out, Dunn has been working on showing how amazing the machining capabilities of the Egyptians was. He has not gone out and published a lot of books on alternate history or alternate science. He has continued down the path of building a foundation that will tie into his Power Plant theory. The precision they exhibit all over the place is phenomenal, and WAS NECESSARY to making the Great Pyramid the WAY it was made.
If any of you get a chance, go to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and see the OTHER examples of their precision. For over 3900 years (maybe much more), the Great Pyramid was the tallest building on Earth. Yet it was fitted together with the precision of a large Swiss watch. It was not an accident. They did it on purpose. But what purpose? That we were not capable of matching its features until the 20th century (and then, only barely - and only in theory) tells us something about the Egyptians.
Dunn has come up with the only theory about the Great Pyramid that I can sign on to. It has been 8 years since I read it, and no other theory since then is anything more than silly season. (Including pouring the blocks: the proponents of this focus only on the limestone, while completely ignoring the GRANITE and DIORITE - two of the hardest stones; those were certainly not poured! I laughed till my abdomen hurt, on hearing that one.)
One more thing: Almost 30 years ago I worked on designing tunnel kilns and had the occasion to go into some that were temporarily shut down, after they had been in use for years. When I heard about Dunn's assertions about the Great Pyramid (29 years after entering the Pyramid myself), that it was an industrial plant, I immediately thought of those kilns and I realized that, YES! the inside of the Great Pyramid was certainly industrial. Like anything industrial, to the casual observer most of what we see is over our heads - why this feature is thus and so, and that feature is made of a particular material, and why things are arranged the way they are. I realized that when I'd gone into the Pyramid, in 1971, I'd not had the experience to recognize what I was seeing. I was amazed that when I was in the kilns I'd missed the connection. I still may not really understand all of what I saw. But if Dunn is not exactly correct, I can assure you he is very close.
I give credit where credit is due, and Christopher Dunn has my admiration for his thoroughness, his intelligent analysis, and his imagination, not to mention his logic. I could never have come up with this one. My hat is off to him.
Everyone should read this book. It makes mockery of the silly fables the Egyptologists tell us about their ancient civilization, that the priests ran the country and it was all about funerary gobbledegook. Dunn paints a picture of a civilization that in many ways rivals our own. Instead of priests, he tells us they had engineers, practical people applying their minds and infrastructure to building an industrial civilization - different from our own, but just as amazing. And Dunn has only scratched the surface. Stay tuned to his further efforts.
Steve Garcia
Cary, IL
Summary of The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient Egypt
Suspicion naturally arises when you read a promo line on a back cover that says, "This is the most important book concerning the Great Pyramid written in the last 20 years." In this case, however, it may be fact. In writing The Giza Power Plant, mechanical engineer Christopher Dunn reverse-engineered the Great Pyramid at Giza to discover its use. His startling conclusions blow the heck out of traditional Egyptology's rather silly notions that it was built with copper tools by a society that lacked the wheel. While revisionist pyramid studies are rife with ridiculous theories that give the topic a bad name, The Giza Power Plant takes into account existing fact and artifact without having to rely on unprovable assertions. A must-read for truth seekers who aren't afraid to consider the idea that Western culture of the 21st century may not be the pinnacle of human evolution and achievement. --P. Randall CohanThis master engineer shows how the Great Pyramid possibly created a harmonic resonance with the Earth, allowing this crystal edifice to convert the Earth's vibrational energies into an unlimited supply of electricity.
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