King’s Chamber Coffer Observations (1 reply)

I haven’t come across anyone else making the following deductions concerning the coffer in the King’s Chamber:

It was constructed, by some unknown means, as a perfect hollow cuboid (with cuboid interior - empty).

There was no seam, crack, or hole between interior and exterior.

Upon discovery, it was presumed to contain treasure, and finding no lid, but presuming it to be hollow (perhaps by sounding), the logical course of action (with minimal work) was to attack a corner of the coffer until the interior cavity was reached. Finding the interior to be empty, the coffer was abandoned (with damaged corner).

Later on, realising that a lidless coffer would cause stupefied consternation, the entire upper ‘lid’ of the coffer was chiselled away, to leave an empty coffer (with completely damaged wall tops) – and a missing ‘lid’ (relocated to some museum).

If one calculates the density of the original coffer, it approaches that of sea-water. Thus it is semi-bouyant.

One can observe that the coffer would perfectly fit a shaft that enters the King’s Chamber.

Let us consider that this was the original situation for the coffer, and it was placed there, precisely for it to end up well within the chamber (in its current position – if not since moved slightly).

I suggest it was intended to demonstrate that the pyramid was expected to suffer cataclysmic inundation (by mega-tsunami), and that the internal pressures/seawater flows thereby generated would be easily sufficient to pop the cork out of the bottleneck.

It was intended to demonstrate this in as obvious a way as possible.

Evidently, it is not at all obvious...