Great Pyramid May Hold Secret Rooms | Amazing Egyptian Discoveries | LiveScience

Architect: Great Pyramid May Hold Secret Rooms | Amazing Egyptian Discoveries | LiveScience: "A French architect known for his theories on how the Great Pyramid of Giza was built now believes the 4,500-year-old structure houses two secret rooms at its heart.

Jean-Pierre Houdin told reporters Thursday (Jan. 27) that 3-D simulations and data from American Egyptologist Bob Brier backs up his theory, Physorg.com reported. The rooms would have held furniture meant to be taken into the afterlife by the Pharaoh Khufu, Houdin said.

Houdin has argued for decades that the Great Pyramid was not built using ramps around the outside, but from the inside out. The idea is that Egyptians would have built the foundation of the pyramid using an outside ramp to pull blocks up from the ground. Then, about a third of the way up, they would have dismantled the ramp and used an inner corkscrew ramp to finish the structure. The original outside ramp would have been dismantled and the stones used to top off the pyramid."