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officials knew about it either as they let us go up there with no chaperone and our inspector was very surprised when I told him I thought there was new digging going on.
    "My guess would be that the officials were now simply removing the bags for safety and that's how the dust got down to the Grand hall."
    In an interview on the Art Bell radio show on July 25, 1997, Danley described the tortuous path one has to take to access the upper chambers above the King's Chamber. In 1836, over a period of several months, English aristocrat Colonel William Richard Howard-Vyse created access to these chambers by blasting upward through the limestone and granite. The hole he created is more like a chimney, with rough sides enabling footholds to climb up. With the new hole, however, it was obvious the tunnelers had hauled the burlap bags of limestone chips up to the chambers above as they dug, instead of removing them completely from the pyramid. This is obviously a more difficult task and surely must have been a conscious effort to keep the digging secret. Boris Said, a documentarian and producer of the television documentary "Mystery of the Sphinx" with Charlton Heston, was being interviewed along with Danley, and he speculated that the purpose for the digging was the Egyptians' clandestine attempt to reach behind the "door" at the end of the southern shaft in the Queen's Chamber, discovered by robotics engineer Rudolph Gantenbrink in 1993. For now the issue rests, for officials are not admitting any knowledge of the new tunneling and probably will not until such time as they make a remarkable discovery.
    As much as the Great Pyramid has deteriorated over the passing millennia, one would think that another hole bored into the heart of this structure would not matter much. But it seems to be creating quite an emotionalstir among those who revere this edifice and who view it as an inheritance for the world rather than the personal property of the Egyptians. Even with this deterioration, though, the quality of the workmanship that went into building the pyramid is still evident, and its tremendous significance has prompted many alternative theories as to its function. What scholars and laypeople must remember is that
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theory that purports to explain the purpose of the Great Pyramid should be mindful of each aspect of its physical existence. The material evidence found within the Great Pyramid did not just spring into existence, but was the result of a physical event, whether the event was planned or not. Thus, every single discovery, observation, and peculiarity—carelessly noted or closely scrutinized by researchers—was the result of some planned action by the pyramid builders or was the effect of a definite cause. Everything about the Great Pyramid has an answer.
    The Great Pyramid is the largest, most precisely built, and most accurately aligned building ever constructed in the world. To my mind it represents the "state of the art" of the civilization that built it. (State of the art describes a condition of excellence, wherein the pursuit of any occupation and the product of that occupation is the best example of it, using the most up-to-date methods available for its completion.) There is no evidence to support the speculation that a civilization, for one brief period of time, could produce work that is so advanced it would be considered supernatural to the members of that society. We will get further in our understanding of the Great Pyramid if we follow the premise that it is an accurate reflection of the technology that was developed and used by the society that built it.
    Many technologists concur that the state of the art evident in the Great Pyramid is, by modern standards, very advanced. As the technological achievements of a society advance with time, the state of the art in any particular field continually improves as new methods are implemented. The technology we enjoy today has progressed gradually over the