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Question: What is the Pharaoh's Pump Foundation?
Answer: The Pharaoh's Pump Foundation is an educational/research 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization dedicated to developing new and emerging energy efficient technologies. This includes the research and understanding of the construction and purpose of the Great Pyramid. Another goal of the Pharaoh's Pump Foundation is to create a working model of the Great Pyramid to the scale of 1/2 inch to the foot. (two stories high) It is our goal to distribute this revolutionary, cost effective pumping technology throughout the world. For more information on our organization, research and experimentation see our Mission Statement and Goals pages.
Question: How is the Pharaoh's Pump Foundation funded?
Answer: Like most worthwhile endeavors the Pharaoh's Pump Foundation is funded on a "shoe-string." Most funding is received from private sources and individuals. The Pharaoh's Pump Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization so donations of funds, services or materials are tax deductible. There have been a few donations in the form of money, office supplies and materials for the construction of the scale model of Pharaoh's Pump. Review our Donors page for more information on funding, our needs, and how you can contribute.
Currently we are primarily funded by small donations. For a donation of $25 Dollars or more we show our appreciation by sending the donor a copy of the book, Pharaoh's Pump. For more information about making this type of donation and receiving this book please go to our Pharaoh's Pump book page.
Our foundation has no formal funding source.One method we are using to help fund our nonprofit foundation is the GoodSearch search engine. This is an excellent method to help fund our foundation without cost to you! Please use GoodSearch for all of your searching needs or click HERE for more information about this fund raising method.
Question: What do the funds go for?
Answer: Funds are use to maintain the internet site, printing costs, long distance charges, postage and other assorted costs related to providing the information concerning Pharaoh's Pump. We are also establishing a library of books and other materials relating to the Great Pyramid, the Giza Plateau and to the high technology used by ancient mankind. The Pharaoh's Pump Foundation is also in the process of constructing a working model of the Great Pyramid Water Pump for demonstration purposes. The model will be 1/2 inch to the foot (two stories high) and will demonstrate the true purpose of the Great Pyramid in action! This will be an expensive undertaking, (as was the Great Pyramid) but it will demonstrate the purpose and function of the puzzling aspects of the Great Pyramid.
Question: Would a small inexpensive working model demonstrate the validity of your ideas?
Answer: As for building a "small" version there is a scaleable limitation. Most devices work best at a specific range of scales. Beyond an optimum range many devices do not operate well. This is better expressed by example. There are few "one" horsepower V8 engines which are built to scale, and there are few 250 horse power one cylinder engines. If a horse was scaled up to the size of an elephant, it's weight would crush it's legs. Just as with jet engines, hydroelectric dams, and other applications, this type of water pump works best in large scale. If the size is of the Great Pyramid water pump is reduced in scale by 1/2 the volume of the chambers and the compressive force is reduced by 4. This pumping system works best in a size larger than a toy. A table top model is not feasible.
Question: I would contribute to your cause only when you prove the validity of your ideas with a working prototype!
Answer: We appreciate your intent. We are researchers and evidently not slick financial fund raising experts. I have had people tell me that they would send huge sums of money when the pump is in production but at that point what would the money be for? I ask those same people, when we have the pump fully operational and in production what would be the purpose of their donation? Most reply they are not sure. At that time we won't need money to develop and distribute this pumping technology. We are reverse engineering the Great Pyramid to understand the building procedure and to develop the water pumping technology we feel was used by the ancients. All research and development costs both time and money. This has always been so.
Question: What can I do to help?
Answer: Obtain the book Pharaoh's Pump and read it. Re-read it and then share it with your friends, letting them read it. It will answer your questions much better than this FAQ page. Spread the word! Add a link to your site! Mention this site in newsgroups and Email the URL to your friends by sending this message. Recommend this site to others. Obtain the book, Pharaoh's Pump as gifts for you friends. It is a compelling read, loaded with historical facts and explanations of the Great Pyramid's construction and the reasoning for ever aspect of the interior of the most marvelous building on earth.
Question: Does the Pharaoh's Pump Foundation take credit cards?
Answer: Yes! Credit Card donations online are made through the Network for Good as well as Amazon Honor System Also PERSONAL CHECKS are gladly accepted as well as PayPal! With a donation of 25 Dollars or more you will receive a complementary copy of the book, Pharaoh's Pump.
Question: Describe the book Pharaoh's Pump.
Answer: The book Pharaoh's Pump is a book that is the culmination of Edward J. Kunkel's life long research into the mysteries and function of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Through exhaustive study and without preconceived notions he was able to solve the riddle of the ages; how the Great Pyramid was built. In his book, he describes in great detail the reason and purpose of every aspect of the odd interior of the Great Pyramid including features to the pyramid that were not described before he published his work. Many who read the book and think about what it says come to the conclusion that the Great Pyramid was built using water locks and that it was built to be a water pump.
Question: The information on your web page is interesting but creates more questions than it answers!
Answer: There is a lot of information to cover. There is not room to put all the information and discoveries on this site. There is so much information that a whole book was written on the subject. Please examine this site and become familiar with the information concerning the Great Pyramid. The book, Pharaoh's Pump is available from this site only. It is privately published and not available from Amazon.com or Barns & Noble. So if you seek the complete information on this subject, please read the book.
Also, our founder, Steven Myers is finishing his manuscript describing in detail how and why the Great Pyramid was built. His manuscripts describes the most up to date information regarding the assembly process and how this structure opperated as intended. For more information about this upcoming book as go to the official web site of StevenMyers.org
Question: Who built the Great Pyramid?
Answer: Who built the Great Pyramid is beyond the scope of our research. Our focus is on researching and understanding the intent of the Original Builders for building this wonder of the world. The Great Pyramid is a massive public works project and our foundation 's focus is understanding the technology of this fascinating construction project.
Question: When was the Great Pyramid built?
Answer: When the Great Pyramid was built is beyond the focus of our research. We are researching how the stones were moved and set in place and why. Our research focuses on the technology involved in the creation of this structure.
Question: How was the Great Pyramid built?
Answer: It is our contention that the subterranean passages and chambers were designed and created to pump water. This water was used to float barges with stones to the building site and to each stone's final resting place.
Question: Why was the Great Pyramid built?
Answer: To pump water. The Grand Coulee Dam pumps water. The Aswan High Dam creates electricity to run electric motors used to pump water. The Great Pyramid was designed and built to pump water. The Great Pyramid pumps water but in a much different manner than hydroelectric dams.
Question: How can the Great Pyramid be a water pump when there is no water near it?
Answer: If a pump is a pump, it doesn't matter where the water is; it is still a pump! There is no water near the Great Pyramid, NOW, to be sure. But that has not always been the case. Perring himself, found "Nile Earth" (which is understood to be dried mud) in the Great Pyramid and Herodotus describes the Great Pyramid as being surrounded by water. There is much evidence of water on the Giza Plateau. The Pharaoh's Pump did have a readily available source of water. Herodotus wrote about an artificial duct connecting to the Great Pyramid..
Question: Surely the Great Pyramid is much more that just a Water Pump?!?!?!?
Answer: Water has a very high value in the center of a desert. It is the source of life and prosperity. Egypt in ancient times was the granary for the ancient world. Food was plentiful and cheap. The Great Pyramid was and is many many things. But first and foremost it is a great machine. It is a machine that can transform the barren desert into a bountiful harvest. It is a machine that changed wasteland into land that groaned with crops or blossomed with roses. The Pyramid Pump meant freedom from want, abundant food, a glorious conquest of environment, and social security. The Great Pyramid was the Ancient's high water mark in mind over matter! The largest structure now in the Nile valley was built and is used to pump water. This structure is called the Aswan High Dam and it generates electricity used to pump water. In 1947 the largest structure on earth built by man was a self contained, self powered water pump. That structure is called the Grand Coulee Dam.
Also, water power can be used, and historically has been used to run a wide variety of machinery. The northeastern states of the USA developed manufacturing because of the availability of water power. Factories were located near fast moving streams and rivers to harness water power. Even electricity is in reality, a form of water power. Most electricity in the Pacific northwest is hydroelectric. (Electricity from water power!) I do not know every use the Ancients used water power for, but I do know that they used water to power their civilization in the center of a desert.
Question: If the Great Pyramid is a pump, then are you saying all pyramids are pumps?
Answer: Each of the ancient pyramids are unique in their size and construction. They are made with sides of different angles of assent. No two pyramids have the same chambers or passages although there are similarities and great differences. Some pyramids were built of differing materials and with wide variances in precision. Some are of exquisite cut stone while others are of sun baked mud brick. The Great Pyramid has many unique features that set it apart from the other pyramids.
Question: Is this Pharaoh's Pump stuff hallucinations of a raving maniac?
Answer: No, not at all. The findings by Edward Kunkel in the book, Pharaoh's Pump are acknowledged to be true and correct by a wide number of people. Even George Washington Carver said, "This explanation is the solution to one of the greatest mystery of the ages!" Also Kunkel's work is confirmed by the research of Viktor Schauberger who is generally unheard of in the USA but is well known in Germany and Europe. He is the father of implosion technology and the use of vortex power. Below are some book titles to familiarize you on his work.
Question: What do Vortex Phenomena and whirlpool properties have to do with the Great Pyramid?
Answer: These properties are used in the subterranean chamber and the passage leading up to the Grotto and into the lower part of the Grand Gallery. To become more familiar with the force created by a vortex a number of book titles have been provided in the box above. Check them out and you will see how this is related to the Great Pyramid as a functional water pump. Viktor Schauberger research confirms Edward Kunkel's research relating to the functioning of the subterranean chamber!
Question: If the Great Pyramid is a Water Pump why is there no water erosion inside the passages and chambers?
Answer: The Great Pyramid has suffered much damage by barbarians of all ages there is no damage by erosion. In researching this matter I contacted the chief engineer (now retired) at the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state and asked him about erosion at that dam. He indicated that after 50 years of continues operation with many tons of water passing through the dam every second that there is no water erosion. Similar findings were reached at the Panama Canal. Seventy five years of continuous operation has resulted in no erosion by water. To be sure those examples are of concrete structures. Granite which lines much of the chambers is more impervious to erosion than concrete. That is why granite is used in this application.
Question: What about water erosion in the subterranean limestone passages?
Answer: There is no water erosion in those passages either. Passages that were cut into the limestone during the time of the ancients on the Giza Plateau have been submerged in water for "eons" of time. Recently the water in some of these passages have been pumped out and the passages have been explored. There is no damage from water erosion. There is damage from the effluent and other contaminants in the rising water table on the Giza plateau which is an entirely different matter. One possible reason for the extreme smooth surfaces of the lower diagonal and the "unfinished" area of the subterranean chamber is the flow of water during pumping. The surfaces of the "unfinished" area of the subterranean chamber were at one time very smooth.
Question: There is evidence of substantial water erosion on the Sphinx but not inside the Great Pyramid where you say there was water pumped.
Answer: The exterior of the Sphinx shows extreme erosion from many sources. These sources of erosion include sandstorms, the baking sun, harsh air pollution, extreme temperature variations, and water containing unknown amounts of abrasive materials. The interior of the Great Pyramid has suffered none of these forms of erosion. The source of this pump was not the muddy Nile but the cool clear water of the "ancient Lake Moeris." .
Question: Your diagrams show an "unknown" passage from the floor of the Queen's chamber to the floor of King's chamber. Surely you are not basing your theory on a tunnel which is not even known to exist.
Answer: Many ask about the "passage" from the floor of the Queen's chamber to the floor of the King's chamber. People say that it doesn't exist or is not known to exist. Evidently it is not well known. Caviglia and no doubt others knew that there is some connection between the floors of those two chambers. Water poured down the excavated hole in the floor of the King's chamber ended up in the excavation or hole in the floor of the Queen's chamber. Smoke from a fire in the excavation or hole in the floor of the Queen's chamber migrated up into the hole in the floor of the King's chamber. Up until now no great significance was given to this information about the Great Pyramid so it is relatively unknown. Guides as late as the early 1970's were still providing this information about the Great Pyramid as part of their presentation. Although this relatively small "passage" or connection has not been fully explored, it is none the less part of the original structure and still is. Both excavations or holes in the floors of the King's and Queens chambers have been repaired or covered over for cosmetic purposes in restoration processes. It is interesting that someone in antiquity had a reason to tear up the floors in both chambers. Our research indicates that there was a relatively small opening in both floors. This prompted early grave robbers to enlarged the openings in each floor looking or treasure. This small passage could have been explored by Gantenbrink's Robot, UPUAUT 2 or similar device.
Question: Where is the machinery that this water power was used for? Are those machines in the Great Pyramid?
Answer: The machines that are powered by the Aswan Dam are not at the dam. Historically the machines of production are lost to the sands of time. But the artifacts they produce (much more of them) are what remain. If those artifacts could be made by hand then they were probably made by hand. If artifacts from antiquity can not be demonstrated to be made by hand then they were probably not made by hand. We are offering a $50,000 Scholarship to to anyone who can demonstrate the casing stones were made and moved by hand. If it can be demonstrated the stones were made and moved by hand then they probably were. If it can not be demonstrated then there must be another solution.
Question: The problem is that the whole Nile valley is fertile cropland irrigated by the river's flood (or it was before the Aswan High Dam) with little human effort, so there's no reason to build a massive pump to water a fairly small patch of land. "
Answer: The Great Pyramid would pump water to land above the flood plain just as the Aswan Dam creates electricity to power pumps to pump water above the flood plain. This, then and now would increase usable land production. Also there is evidence of machinery in antiquity such as large scale lathes which would need a power source. Water power is an excellent source of power for this application.
Question: There are much easier and simpler ways to irrigate. Why go to the time and expense of building a pyramid pump to water some ground when shadufs are still being used in that part of the world?
Answer: There are what some think to be easier ways to pump or move water. Why not use that same tried and true easy way to pump water now? The shadufs still work great! Why then was the Aswan Dam on the Nile built? Why did they go to the time and effort to build the Aswan Dam when they could have used shadufs, rely of the yearly flood, or use a few canals to irrigate. The Aswan Dam was built as a keystone of (among other things) a huge irrigation project. It supplies the electricity to power water pumps that irrigate much of the Nile valley that is never flooded. The power of the dam is used to irrigate land above the flood plain. The water of the Pyramid Pump was used to (among other things) irrigate land above the flood plain.
The Aswan Dam was a large, very expensive project but it is easier to build and use use the dam and it's electricity to move water than using shadufs. The Aswan dam as the Great Pyramid was an investment. Also the electricity is very versatile and can be used for many applications. Water power is very versatile too. The industrial revolution started on water power. Factories were run on water. I run my computer on water power. That type of power is called Hydro-electricity.
Question: Where do you think all this water came from which would enable the Pyramid to act as a "huge water pump?"
Answer: The water source was from the large ancient lake of Moeris through an "artificial duct" as described by Herodotus.
Question: Would the "plug or door" in the Queen's chamber "vent" seen by the Gantenbrink's Robot, UPUAUT 2 kill your theory?
Answer: No. The purpose and nature of that plug in the "vent" of the Queen's chamber is unknown. Both ends of the Queen's chamber vents were blocked by the original builders. The Queen's chamber vents were used during construction of the Great Pyramid and are not part of the output of the pump after construction. Based on this theory, the door at the upper end is most likely a "door on pivots." Or to put it another way, it is a check valve. No one seems to talk about the round ball found in the "vent." Round balls are used extensively in check valves!!! More than likely the round ball found in that vent was part of a check valve in the lower end.
Question: What about the large granite plugs in the lower end of the ascending passage. How could the pump work when that passage has always been plugged!?!?
Answer: The flow of pumped water does not go through that passage with the large granite plugs. Those plugs were placed in that passage during construction. Water flows down the descending passage then up through the Grotto into the Grand Gallery. Then it moves up the Grand Gallery and back down, directed into the Queen's chamber. Compressed air pushes water from the Queen's chamber up to the King's chamber where compressed air in that chamber pushes water out the "vents" in the King's chamber. The output of this pump would be similar to two 10 inch fire hoses discharging water full blast!
Question: If the Great Pyramid was an irrigation pump, what area was irrigated?
Answer: The Great Pyramid is more than just a water pump to be sure, but the rocky knoll the Great Pyramid is built on is not higher than the surrounding landscape. The site of the Great Pyramid is on gradual hillside. The Libyan desert directly to the west is about 100 feet higher than the base of the building. Also water power is an excellent and efficient source of power to run lathes and other machinery. The pumped water has many uses, now as well as in the past.
Question: Why aren't Ed Kunkel's ideas accepted by most Egyptologists?
Answer: Yes there is controversy about the book Pharaoh's Pump among Egyptologists. The best way to explain this conflict is to point out another one. Currently there is great controversy as to the age of the Sphinx. Many Geologists around the world have ascertained that the Sphinx is much older than the Egyptologists say it is. A TV program broadcast across the nation demonstrated that the geologic aspects of the Sphinx proves it was made farther back in antiquity than any Egyptologist will admit. Egyptologists have a vested interest and are promoting their own agenda that coincides with the volumes of books written and number of college classes taught. If they ever admit that the Sphinx is over twice as old as they previously thought, then their books and classes become obsolete. It is for the same reasons that they haven't acknowledged the truth about Pharaoh's Pump.
Question: What about the Archeology evidence that the area around the Great Pyramid is riddled with burial sites and tombs. Why build a water pump in the middle of a grave yard?
Answer: To be sure there is water pump surrounded by graves. Were the graves there first or was the Great Pyramid there first? It is the contention of many researchers (except traditional Egyptologists) that the Great Pyramid predates Dynastic Egypt. Almost all sites considered special for whatever reason have graves near them. The sites of battles, churches, cathedrals, and landmarks have graves.
Question: What was the pumped water used for? What was it's purpose?
Answer: The Ancients used the pumped water for many things. Herodotus described water fountains and canals up on the high ground of the Giza plateau. The Great Pyramid is not located on the highest ground in the area. The Great Pyramid is on a gradual slope that rises up to the Libyan dessert. After the Great Pyramid's construction, Egypt and the dessert around it was the bread basket of the ancient world. Food was plentiful and cheap! Who knows what other purposes the ancients utilized this tremendous water power. Artifacts from antiquity have been made by large lathes. In the Industrial Revolution, factories were powered using water power, and electricity is primarily made using water power. The truth of what the ancients did is probably more fantastic than our wildest dreams. The Great Pyramid is the Ancients high-water mark in mind over mater, for with the water it pumped they were able to transform the barren desert into farmland, groaning with crops or gardens blooming with roses.
Question: What good is this technology in this day and age?
Answer: Although this research is interesting subject matter it is not just of historical significance. This is the most important aspect of our research!! It is the application of this lost ancient technology in OUR world that matters most. We live in a world that is starving for cheap energy sources. Our fossil fuel based economy has caused severe problems in energy costs, pollution and supply problems just to name a few. The money used to buy overseas oil often helps to fund destabilizing forces in our troubled world. This type of pump does not use electricity or fossil fuel to operate. This type of pump could be used in third world agrarian cultures to reduce famine and also in dry countries like Australia to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and to reduce irrigation costs for the production of farm products. Environmentalists would embrace this technology because it reduces the consumption of electricity and thereby reduces the need for hydroelectric dams.
Question: Why was there a need for a water pump in the lush Nile valley? Isn't it naturally irrigated by the annual flood of the Nile?
Answer: Among other things, the Great Pyramid Pump greatly extended the irrigated area around the Giza area and above and beyond the flood plain. It allowed the area uphill and beyond the Great Pyramid to be irrigated. Many other uses of the water were possible, including waterpower to run machinery or generate electricity but one of the main purposes was: With this pump it was possible to irrigate areas above and beyond the flood plain!
The area near the Columbia River (in Washington State) is lush and green. But once one gets just a little ways away from the river the area is very dry and relatively unproductive. The Grand Coulee Dam greatly extends the area of irrigation by pumping water UP to a much higher level, making a much greater area very productive. The Great Pyramid pumped that water up to the area higher in elevation making what was desert into productive farmland
Question: Why would the ancient Egyptians need to build such a monumental "pump" when they had more than enough fertile irrigated land in the Nile river flood plain? It makes no sense.
Answer: I am not sure what the ancients thought was enough irrigated farm land. They wanted to irrigate enough land to go to the trouble to create an artificial lake nearly as large as lake Erie. That lake called Lake Moeris was used to irrigate when the flood plain was not flooded. It takes a lot of water throughout the year to irrigate farmland in a very hot dry area with no rainfall even though there is a yearly one time flood. The Great Pyramid water pump moved water from that lake up to higher ground. Also water power can be used for many things. It was water power that powered machinery at the beginning of the Industrial Age. The water from this pump could have been used to power lathes, or other machines. Water power is used to make electricity to this day, and the ancients could have used the water from their pump to do the same.
Question: I have always been told about the slaves (or taxpayers) pulling blocks up the ramp.
Answer: Read the book Pharaoh's Pump and you will come to understand the great abilities and intelligence of the Ancients! The book is interesting and compelling. It is the only volume on the Great Pyramid that actually makes sense. Sure, people can stack a few rocks into a pile and say that is how it was made. It is odd that they never demonstrate how the magnificent 70 ton megalithic stones were set in place. The measure in how the stones were moved is with the largest ones, not the littlest! If you can prove that traditional Egyptologists are correct in their assessment of how the ancient Egyptians made and moved casing stones you will receive our $50,000 Scholarship. See our $50,000 Scholarship Page for details.
Question: The Great Pyramid was built as a tomb for a dead Pharaoh.
Answer: There is little if any evidence that any Pharaoh was laid to rest in the Great Pyramid. What others believe to be very ineffective obstacles to tomb robbers were actually various types of valves. Most of these so-called obstacles (in truth, valves) in the passages of the Great Pyramid have been destroyed but some of the valve seats are still there as are the eight inch round sockets that the valves pivoted in. In the anti-chamber there is still a part of a valve that moves up in a slot. Early explorers write of the precision of these movable parts. These pivoting and moving working parts of the pump were not made to stop tomb robbers.
Question: The Great Pyramid was built using simple tools and superb organization.
Answer: The above statement is incorrect. People who tell you the above is how the Great Pyramid was built are wrong. To be sure, any major task requires great organization, but it took much more than organization to make the Great Pyramid. Case in point: with 100,000 slaves, simple tools and all the organization in the world it has not been demonstrated the creation of the optical precision, and moving of even one full size casing stone!! In fact, since the construction of the pyramids not one full size casing stone like those that remain on the Great Pyramid has been made with simple tools. Egyptologists have access to simple tools and are organized yet they can not make one casing stone. The book Pharaoh's Pump talks about some of the mechanization used in the construction of the Great Pyramid.
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