Pyramid Construction Theory
In 1999 Houdin's father, a retired civil engineer, started to develop the idea that the pyramids had been built from the inside. He asked his son, who had experience both in architecture and in three-dimensional graphics, to assist him in his research. During 2000, they met with members of the team who, in 1986, had worked on the mystery of the Pyramid of Khufu under the aegis of the Fondation EDF. Professor Huy Duong Bui showed them plans on which they discovered what they saw as a construction anomaly which earlier hypotheses could not account for. This anomaly, baptised “the spiral structure”, looked exactly like a ramp built inside the pyramid which could have played a part in its construction. In 2003, his father created the Association of the Construction of the Great Pyramid (ACGP) in order to promote the project. This association enabled him to meet a number of experts.
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