hello everybody and welcome to ancient architects please subscribe now to get the latest ancient history news and independent research from around the world in ancient architecture large chevron blocks are not added to a structure for mere decoration but they have a very specific practical purpose they are added to protect chambers and corridors to prevent the roof from collapsing with the weight of the stone above the great pyramid of egypt has three known sets of chevron blocks we find them directly above the queen's chamber we find them above the relieving chambers of the king's chamber we find them set back and above the opening of the descending passageway on the north face of the pyramid the queen's chamber chevron blocks directly overlay the queen's chamber and this means they are only there to protect this chamber unless of course there is an undiscovered level beneath the floor which does seem unlikely because the floor was dug up by giovanni cavillia in the NUMBER_TOKENth century and nothing was found the chevron blocks above the king's chamber are different though being elevated above a number of relieving chambers this isn't just a design to mimic a jed pillar as many believe it is constructional planned by the architects and can only be to protect something more than the king's chamber this whole area is being protected giving credence to the hypothesis that there are in fact more chambers to be found inside the great pyramid the evidence for this in my opinion is now overwhelming structurally speaking there is without doubt another opening into the king's chamber access through this block marked here the evidence for which i've discussed many times over the past few years including the fact that this one block is not load-bearing microgravimetry surveys back up the claims that there are voids behind the northern wall of the king's chamber and this can be the only reason for the elevated chevron blocks if these blocks were just to protect the king's chamber they would be positioned directly above it just as we see with the queen's chamber and the burial chamber in caffrey's pyramid but here we can see they are raised higher and this is to protect a much larger area and that leads us to the final set of chevron blocks on the north face we see two sets of chevrons one directly above the other but the fact we can see oblique stops in front of the entrance chevrons situated on the left and the right marked here is a clear indication that in the past more chevron blocks were installed and they clearly are missing today when you put the chevrons back into position it's clear there was something like a chamber or lobby on the northern face there could have been a visible opening or these chevrons and the lobby could have been completely covered over with casing stones maybe with a hinged stone opening this little room almost like a lobby contain the entrance into the descending passageway but structurally speaking there is something that really doesn't make sense in reality there are too many chevrons to protect the small lobby and the early part of the descending passageway they're not necessary and i don't think the pyramid builders would go to the trouble of adding these large chevron blocks without good reason the reason has already been discovered thanks to cosmic muon scans by the scan pyramids project in NUMBER_TOKEN and there is an undiscovered void behind them if there is no void
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