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The experimental archeologist Dr. Dominique Görlitz and private researcher Stefan Erdmann discovered significant traces of wrought iron in the Cheops Pyramid. This result would be an archaeological sensation as Egyptologists believe that in the ear of Cheops (middle of 3. Century BC) wrought iron did not exist. However, the research results of Görlitz and Erdmann meanwhile have been confirmed by materials scientists of the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology.

Dr. Görlitz organized a multimedia exhibition “The Iron of the Pharaohs” in regards of those results in the Galileo Park in Lennestadt, Germany. The exhibition also shows how the 60 tons massive granite blocks could have been transported onto the stub of the pyramids without ramps. Görlitzs’ idea is that the granite blocks of the Weight relieving chambers were elevated onto the pyramids with wedge and hoisting technology for every level.

For anyone interested in this hoisting technology and the consequences for the modern Egyptology, there are books and films (see links below). This technology challenges the standard paradigm of the Egyptology that the old Egyptians were only able to pull and not lift heavy stocks. Furthermore, the finding of iron and their experimental archaeological utilization confirms the records of the creek historian Herodotus (approx. 500 BC). Herodotus is the only antique author who was engaged extensively in the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The book (2015) and film (2016) also show the still unexplained super exact hard rock processing. Visible traces of those cutting techniques which were impossible with unhardened wrought iron, can be found all over the plateau of Giza. For archaeologists and engineering scientists it is still a mystery how the Egyptians were able to cut the hard granite rocks precisely with their assumed “soft” tools and put them back together.

Fortunately, the Cheops scandal is solved which has been initiated by the former Minister of Antiques Zahi Hawass. The six formerly arrested and involved Egyptians were released. A commission of Interpol determined beginning of October 2016 that Görlitz and Erdmann definitely did not damage the famous Cheops cartouche.

The case was also solved in Germany in an extrajudicial action. A legal survey by the Thuringian superior judge aD Wolf-Philipp Müller confirmed that this private research team were neither thieving nor damaging a cultural sacred site and therefore the excursion wasn’t a criminal act

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The exhibition in the Galileo Park Lennestadt is open until November 16, 2018. Replicas of the interior of the pyramids, e.g. the ascending corridor or the King’s Chamber, can be visited on a scale of 1:2.