which continues upward at the same steep rate of incline all the way to the entrance of the King's Chamber. The gallery is not perfectly rectangular—the ceiling narrows to a corbelled (roughly ...

Although it is called the 'Queen's Chamber,' Egyptologists ... place for King Khufu, until he changed his mind yet again and opted for a burial chamber even higher. The roof of the chamber is ...

I became a master stone mover. It was my job to guide into position the great granite blocks to make the roof of the king's burial chamber. This holy chamber was the centre of the pyramid - its ...

Five rooms atop the king's burial chamber in another part of the pyramid ... an underground rectangular tomb with a flat roof typically constructed of limestone or mudbricks.