Dear Chris

I know you have indicated that you are not particularly keen to enter into further discussions with me, but your recent posting on your website (at http://www.gizapower.com/articles/door.html) about the Queen's Chamber shafts forces me to emerge to haunt you once again. We have not discussed your Giza Power Plant theory before, although you suggested initially that you would be keen to take me on over the purpose of the Great Pyramid, and then became progressively more reticent.

Although there are a great many points of detail in your theory with which I could take issue, since you suggest you are too busy to enter into long debates with me let me ask you a very simple set of questions which rise above the detail:

On p. 95 of GPP you discuss the quality of the sarcophagus in the Second Pyramid. The implication of this analysis, and that in other parts of your book, is that none of these early pyramids were funerary edifices. Yet it is quite clear that neither the Second Pyramid, nor any of the others, has the same detailed features as the Great Pyramid (e.g. the shafts, grand gallery, chambers high up in the superstructure etc.) which allow you to postulate that it is a power plant. So what do you think the purpose of these other pyramids was, since presumably you cannot stretch them into being power plants as well?

Of course it may be that you think that the Great Pyramid is much older and can be taken out of the context of all the others, so you do not have to worry about their function. If this is the case, and my apologies because I cannot remember whether or not you make this clear in your book or elsewhere, then your discussion of, for example, the Second Pyramid is merely distracting and confusing to the logic of your main argument. However perhaps you would then like to indicate how you support the suggestion that the Great Pyramid is significantly older, in the face of, for example, the evidence presented in Chapter 2 of G:TT, and especially pp. 94-113?

As usual I will be posting this on my web site as well as sending it to you.

Best wishes

Ian Lawton