The Great Pyramid.

A Theory by Lloyd and Brian Babineau

“The lake [Moeris] shows for itself; for almost in the middle of it
stand two pyramids” -Herodotus, 5th century BC. “Now the king in
excavating it [Lake Moeris] left a spot in the centre, where he built a
tomb and two pyramids, a stade in height” -Diodorus, 1st century BC.
Because Lake Moeris is over 50 miles away from the Great
Pyramid (GP), quotes like these have long been misinterpreted. As you
read our theory, you will see how these quotes, and many others, help
reveal the true meaning behind this ancient wonder. By using these
quotes, as well as physical evidence, we have been able to connect all
components in and around the Great Pyramid, including the rarely
mentioned granite slab lying in the grotto, to formulate a completely
logical, fact-based solution to this mystery.
Who are Herodotus and Diodorus?
Herodotus was a Greek historian born around 480 BC. He wrote
primarily about the history of the Persian Kingdom, which at this time
included Egypt. His second book dove into Egypt’s customs, and is also
where he touched on the Great Pyramid. When he wrote these books,
he relied heavily on his own personal observations, accounts of
eyewitnesses, and oral traditions.
Diodorus was another Greek historian, born roughly 400 years
after Herodotus. In his life he wrote 40 books, 20 of which are still here
today. His books are comprised partially of personal accounts and
interviews, and partially of summarized versions of Herodotus’ books.
Clarification of watertight
The majority of the blocks used to create the GP were not placed
watertight. There are gaps between them, some negligible, but others
have been measured at over a foot. Because of this, we have noted
each component that had blocks cut and placed with such precision that
they are considered to be watertight. When we say “watertight” we are
using the dictionary's definition to say that these blocks are “closely
sealed, fastened, or fitted so that no water leaks in or out.”

GP Components
(Every component in this list is actually in or near the GP)
● Pipeline - A 3 ft.² primitive underground water main built before the
GP. Described as spanning between the sub chamber and the
Nile. (considered a watertight component)
● Sub Chamber - A room created before the GP approximately 100
feet below it. (considered a watertight component)
● Descending passageway - A tunnel connecting the sub chamber to
the swivel door with dimensions close to those of the water main.
Half of this was built below ground before the GP. (considered a
watertight component)
● Ascending passageway - A tunnel in the GP connecting the
descending passageway to the grand gallery with dimensions
close to those of the water main. (considered a watertight
component)
● Moat (like you would find around a castle) - Built before the GP.
Approximately a 40-foot-wide area surrounding the pyramid
composed of very short walls. (considered a water tight
component)
● Lake Moeris (currently called Lake Qarun) - A lake more than 50
miles upriver, fed from the Nile.
● Causeway - A man-made channel approximately 25-feet-wide with
short walls on both sides and a smooth floor comprised of blocks
spanning between the moat and the Nile (considered a water tight
component)
● First Layer of casing stones - The first course of blocks seen
around the exterior of the GP (considered not only watertight, but
also amazingly level).
● Grotto - A room built in the middle of the GP (considered a water
tight component).
● Well Shaft Passageway - A passageway connecting the
descending passageway to the base of the grand gallery. In the
center of it is the Grotto (considered a water tight component).
● Swivel Door - An exterior stone that could be easily opened from
the inside. It hinged upward, and would close by gravity. It was so
well placed and balanced that it couldn’t be detected or opened
from the outside.
● Grand Gallery - A room approximately 7-feet-wide, 29-feet-high,
and over 150-feet-long (bottom half is considered water tight).
 ● Open 8-Inch Shaft Exiting the King's Chamber - An 8 inch x 8 inch
shaft that vents the GP above the king’s chamber (considered a
water tight component).
● King’s Chamber - A chamber between the grand gallery and the 8
inch shaft.
● Granite Block in the Ascending Passageway - A unique block that
obstructs access between the descending passageway below and
the grand gallery above.
● Granite Block in the Grotto - A unique block the pharaohs
intentionally laid to rest in the grotto. This block does not appear to
have a purpose. Its dimensions are the same as the well shaft
passageway above it.

Other Components

● Why the Pharaohs became powerful and wealthy.

● Writings of Herodotus and other historians who interviewed the
ancestors of the Pharaohs.
● A never before considered method of transporting the blocks uphill
across three miles of desert between the Nile and the foot of the
GP for construction.
 Applying our Method to the Pyramid
The Pharaohs were known for manipulating and controlling water.
1

This theory reveals how the Pharaohs built the GP and used it to obtain
wealth and power. They understood that if they could encapsulate water
in a pipeline, it could travel uphill as long as no point of the system
reached or exceeded the height of the inlet.

Garden Hose Example

To understand the basis of our theory, consider this simple
concept using a garden hose.

Imagine a 100-foot garden hose and an endless pitcher of water.

One end (5-feet off the ground) has water being poured in. The other
end (2-feet off the ground) has water flowing out. With the absence of
technology, such as a gate or ball valve, there would still be two ways to
stop water from flowing (one method from each end of the system):
Beginning/inlet
● (This would symbolize Lake Moeris) Stop pouring water in the
hose. Water would continue flowing out of the hose until a 3 foot
section at the inlet filled with air. At this point, water in the hose
would balance out and stop moving. When you begin pouring
water again, you would force this 3 foot plume of air through the
hose.
End/Exit
● (This would symbolize the GP) Raise the exit end of the hose 3-
feet higher to make both ends the same elevation. With this
method, no air would enter the system.

Building the Pyramid

1
http://www.waterhistory.org/histories/nile/t1.html#photo1
 Herodotus and other historians wrote about a connection between
Lake Moeris and the GP. 2 By accepting this as fact, all components link
become relevant and useful. Our theory asserts that the known pipeline
under the GP heading to the Nile extends up-river towards Lake Moeris.
By doing this the pipeline would react exactly like the garden hose
example. Constructing this would have been simple compared to
building the moat or GP. The majority of it would have been placed
below the sand in the outskirts of the Nile in the sandy river bed that was
softened by the Akhet season,3 finally pass through the mountains
above Memphis, and end somewhere near Lake Moeris. 4

Transporting the blocks for building

Prior to the GP, the only things that had been created were the
causeway, the moat, (including the sub chamber and the below ground
portion of the descending passageway) and the pipeline documented to
span between the sub chamber and the Nile. If the historians are correct,
and there is a connection between the GP and Lake Moeris, when they
allowed water to flow through it, water entering this pipeline would
eventually exit the GP, fill the moat and flow down the causeway back to
the Nile. This would create a new river that enabled the building of the
GP. They would leave the blocks on barges and use ropes to pull them
up the causeway to the moat. This explains why the moat and causeway
were created before the GP, and why the ceremonial barge buried
alongside the GP didn’t have a rudder or sail on it, but simply a large
number of ropes.

Finding Elevations
Even without technology, they were able to determine certain
elevations helping them construct and operate the GP. They did this by
temporarily removing blocks at different locations/elevations of the
pipeline. This would essentially alter the height of water flowing through
the system, much like raising and lowering the garden hose.

2
For almost in the middle of it [Lake Moeris] stand two pyramids, so built that fifty fathoms of each
are below and fifty above the water; atop each is a colossal stone figure seated on a throne.
3
Akhet - the inundation (June-September): The Flooding Season.
4
Furthermore, the natives said that this lake drains underground into the Libyan Syrtis, and extends
under the mountains that are above Memphis, having the inland country on its west
 One of the first benefits of doing this would have been leveling off
the casing stones. The amazing precision in level and accuracy of the
casing stones is probably the one area that gives alien and advance
technology theorists the most room to point out their theories plausibility,
there is another explanation. If the pipeline was opened at a location
slightly higher in elevation than that of the tops of these stones. It would
cause water that filled the area inside the casing stones to gently flow
over the tops of them. Doing this would give the workers the ability to
Realize and shave off high areas to level the stones close to perfection.
If researched, we believe any anomalies in the casing stones precision
of level would have been isolated areas that were low, none that were
high. Since high ones would be easier to spot and correct.

Swivel Door
Strabo, a Greek historian, wrote about “a stone that may be taken
out, which being raised up, there is a sloping passage to the
foundations”. This stone/door blended in to the pyramids exterior so well
that even the Governor of Cairo, Caliph Al Ma’mun, and his men couldn’t
find it. This lead him to burrow into the GP 40-feet below this swivel door
to arrive at the descending passageway, explaining why for thousands of
years no one could find a way into the GP. The swivel door was
designed as an exit for water, not an entrance. Water would enter the
pipeline near Lake Moeris, eventually make its way up the descending
passageway, push the swivel door open, and then flow out the GP.
Taxes
 By keeping the swivel door undetectable, people would be lead to
believe water was pouring out of a solid formation, giving the Pharaohs
the opportunity to create an incredible ceremony. 5000 years ago, the
Egyptians could have been gathered each year along the causeway to
behold a spectacular sight coming out of the GP 40-feet above where
they stood. This was presented by the Pharaohs as water creation. With
this impressive edifice and miraculous water creation, the Pharaohs
were able to take advantage of the citizens by creating a tax base to
generate wealth and power. 5
How the Pyramid Worked

Stopping Water Flow at Lake Moeris

This would have caused miles of water main to fill with air as it continue
to drain out. This would continue until water at both ends was the same
level, just like the garden hose example. This elevation would have been
the bottom of the swivel door and the pipeline somewhere halfway to
Lake Moeris.

When water was again released from Lake Moeris to enter the
pipeline, it caused a miles long plume of air to travel towards the swivel
door, being pushed by the force of rushing water. If air (now mixed with
water) hit the swivel door, it would cause the swivel door to repeatedly
open and slam shut. The Swivel Door wouldn’t survive this abuse for any
length of time. To overcome this problem, the Pharaohs incorporated an

5
Herodotus- “The daily take of fish brings a silver talent into the royal treasury, and twenty minae for
each day of the flow into the lake”
air bypass, today known as the Well Shaft Passageway, 6 which allowed
air to escape off the top of the descending passageway before water
pushed the swivel door open. This air would pass through the Grand
Gallery and exit out of the 8-inch shaft above the King’s Chamber.

Stopping water flow using the GP

In order to use the GP to stop water flow, a few anticipated
changes would be necessary. During the time of year water was not
flowing through the pipeline, they would remove a block at a key
elevation which would cause water to drain to a pre-established
workable elevation. Next, remove the granite block restricting water from
accessing the Grand Gallery. Then use the granite block laying in the
grotto to seal the well shaft passageway. 7 Once all of this was complete,
they could reseal the pipeline and let water flow like normal.
The following season when they needed to stop water from
flowing, the swivel door would need to be forced shut. Instead of
stopping water from flowing, which would have been impossible without
modern technology, it would reroute the water up the GP until the
elevation matched that of the inlet near Lake Moeris, balancing it out just
like raising the garden hose. This elevation would have been
approximately the middle of the Grand Gallery. 8 Once water had

6
The bottom section of the well shaft was created with a chiseled appearance. This is because it was
not in the original design, but incorporated after the problem was realized.
7
Since no air would enter the system, the well shaft would become unnecessary.
8
stopped flowing, they would block off the inlet to remove the chance of
water leaking into the system.

Although components were incorporated to change the method of

stopping water flow, they were never used. The block in the ascending
passageway that obstructed water from entering the grand gallery was
clearly built into the original construction of the GP, not placed
afterwards. It is still there today. Also, the granite block the Pharaohs laid
in the grotto is exactly how it was when the GP was built 5000 years
ago. 9
The Real Purpose
Giza and Cairo are close to the edge of the lower Nile which had
plenty of water flow. What is less known is the unpredictability of the
Nile. There were three seasons that the Egyptians used for farming, one
of which was a flood season. During this season, it was quite uncertain
as to how much the river would flood, which caused chaos. Lake Moeris
was the answer to this problem.10 They built a canal that would reroute

9
http://www.gizapyramid.com/newtour3.htm
10
Diodorus: “For since the Nile did not rise to a fixed height every year and yet the fruitfulness of the country
depended on the constancy of the flood-level, he excavated the lake to receive the excess water, in order that the
river might not, by an excessive volume of flow, immoderately flood the land and form marshes and pools, nor,
by failing to rise to the proper height, ruin the harvests by the lack of water.”
excess water into the lake, For Storage. Rather than down the Nile,
which allowed for a more predictable height of flood. During the drought
seasons of the Nile, water was routed through the system for personal
consumption. Because there would have still been water in the Nile
during the drought season, we suspect water pollution was another huge
factor.
The Egyptians farmed above Giza along the Nile taking advantage
of the three seasons. They farmed during the low water flow seasons,
then allowed the flood season to wash away old soil bringing fresh soil
for the following year. Farming and ranching practices, coupled with
everyday life choices resulted in the river becoming oxygen-depleted
and nutrient-polluted. As the population grew, so would the amount of
farming. Towards the end of each year, a reduction of seasonal water
would have exacerbated this pollution problem. Downriver, the effect
would worsen. Lake Moeris was filled with water from the Nile up river
before passing through these farming and ranching areas. Additionally,
debris and sediment entering the lake would be given time to settle to
the bottom before being routed through the GP. This was probably the
greatest public works project on the planet, not just then, but for
centuries to come!

Other Unexplained Items Now Explained

1. The fin-like walls carved in the floor of the sub chamber were
formed to cause a vortex-like motion aiding water flow.
2. The massive amount of erosion in the sub chamber was caused by
water in it year-round and flowing through it approximately six
months every year.

Herodotus and other historians’ Quotes Illustrate Theory

“The stones in the Arabian mountains . . . were ferried across the river
on boats.”
“The water of the lake [Moeris] is not natural (for the country here is
exceedingly arid) but brought by a channel from the Nile; six months it
flows into the lake, and six back into the river.”

“Furthermore, the egyptians said this lake drains underground into the
Libyan Syrtis, and extends under the mountains above Memphis, having
an inland country on its west”

“The daily take of fish brings a silver talent into the royal treasury, and
twenty minae for each day of the flow into the lake”

“The river comes in through a built passage and encircles an island, in

which, they say, Kheops himself lies.”

“The lake [Moeris] shows for itself; for almost in the middle of it stand
two pyramids”
 Why did historians say the Pyramid was in the Middle of Lake
Moeris?
The Pharaohs that Herodotus and Diodorus interviewed were not
the creators of the GP. In fact, they were alive hundreds of years after it
was built. Because of this, coupled with translational issues, these
quotes have long been misinterpreted. As water flowed out of the GP
and filled the moat, it would surround the pyramid, it could only be
described as an island. This island was caused by water of Lake Moeris.
Because of this, we speculate that the historians were likely told that the
GP was in the middle of “water of Lake Moeris”, not Lake Moeris itself.

Stolen Items?
By applying this theory, we concluded 5000 years ago at the time
of construction, the Pharaoh placed items in the sarcophagus located in
the King's Chamber. We know what these items were and who took
them. We will divulge this at a later date in part 2.

Conclusion
The GP was a crude mechanical structure enabling the Pharaohs
the ability to control the flow of water from either the source (Lake
Moeris) or the distribution point (GP). Overcoming their lack of
technology through ingenuity. There are several items we have not yet
addressed, but are nevertheless significant. These include the girdle
stones, the queen’s chamber and why it was necessary to completely
block this chamber off from the rest of the GP, the relieving chambers
above the king's chamber, the method used to raise the blocks once
they were brought to the base of the GP, the only inscription found
etched by one of the builders inside the GP, why only one 8-inch shaft
exits the GP, and more writings of Herodotus and other historians.

A special thanks to our friend Jane Nobbs for helping us write this.

Email: Greatpyramidbabineautheory@gmail.com
 References

Strabo’s description:
http://www.ancient-wisdom.com/Ghizaarchitecture.htm
Herodotus:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A199
9.01.0126%3Abook%3D2&force=y
Caliph Al Ma’mun:
https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-africa/tunnel-vision-
mysterious-forced-entry-caliph-great-pyramid-giza-001812