Episode Details

In this episode we do a deep-dive into German Engineer Rudolph Gantenbrink's exploration of the mysterious "air shafts" in the Great Pyramid, reading at length from his website where he meticulously records every detail of the project to use a robotic crawler to drive a camera up the shafts and inspect them up close, block by block, culminating in the discovery of the now infamous "secret door". So many interesting features were discovered by Gantenbrink and his "Upuaut" robot, most of which were so overshadowed by the "door" that these other details are rarely reported. We remedy that with this show. (All the pictures below come from Gantenbrink's website, www.cheops.org) Settling of the shaft blocks

"Dixon's Rod"

An illustration showing the partially completed shaft block, which the robot could not pass

Block assembly where one of the King's Chamber shaft ends on the exterior of the pyramid

Entering the "Mankiller" tunnel

Cleaning the access to exterior shaft point

The 100 year old wheeled "battering ram"

Installing the protective cover over an exterior shaft exit

Recessed niches in King's Chamber shaft. You can see the laser dots on the wall, inside the niches

Ventilator blower

Upuaut 2 entering a shaft

Lateral displacement of a shaft block

Static forces damaged the floor block of the s