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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

designed as a gigantic challenge or learning machine—or, better still, as
an interactive three-dimensional puzzle set down in the desert for
humanity to solve.

Antechamber

Just over 3 feet 6 inches high, the entry passage to the lung’s Chamber
required all humans of normal stature to stoop. About four feet farther
on, however, I reached the ‘Antechamber’, where the roof level rose
suddenly to 12 feet above the floor. The east and west walls of the
Antechamber were composed of red granite, into which were cut four
opposing pairs of wide parallel slots, assumed by Egyptologists to have
held thick portcullis slabs. Three of these pairs of slots extended all the
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way to the floor, and were empty. The fourth (the northernmost) had
been cut down only as far as the roof level of the entry passage (that is, 3
feet 6 inches above floor level) and still contained a hulking sheet of
granite, perhaps nine inches thick and six feet high. There was a
horizontal space of only 21 inches between this suspended stone
portcullis and the northern end of the entry passage from which I had
just emerged. There was also a gap of a little over 4 feet deep between
the top of the portcullis and the ceiling. Whatever function it was
designed to serve it was hard to agree with the Egyptologists that this
peculiar structure could have been intended to deny access to tomb
robbers.

2 The Pyramids of Egypt, p. 94.

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