This corridor connects the low end of the Great Gallery to the Great Descending shaft, appreciably near the underground Chamber, its length being approximately 60 meters.

It seems that everyone agrees for saying that this corridor would have been carried out to allow the evacuation of the workmen after closing the harrows. This asks me a question and I will explain why after the design which follows.

The problem which was in theory consisted in walking from the point A to the point E.

Workmen digging between A and B is very probable because the shaft is simply vertical with correction at middle race.

On the other hand between B and C, each one will be able to notice that the slope ratio is exactly 1/1 corresponding with the grids what would be extremely difficult to realize in terms of positioning for somebody confined to an underground dig!

This part thus existed beforehand or "originally ".

Moreover the distance between B and C represents approximately 30 meters and C from D is nearly 60 meters whereas B and D are distant only from about ten meters.

If you had had to dig, it is certainly the kind of question which you would have asked yourselves.

This distance between A and E is thus apparently a nonsense and we have to consider that section B to C existed since the origin and corresponds to another architectural reality.

Do we have the certitude that the workmen evacuated by the Great Descending shaft? or on the contrary by the underground Chamber which, although research in this direction was not carried out, could be outside connected and I refer you to the texts of Hérodote which never had the reputation of being a merry joker!

You'll find below the French version of what Herodote said

"... Le temps pendant lequel le peuple fut soumis à d'exténuants labeurs aurait été de dix ans pour l'établissement de la chaussée par où l'on traînait les pierres, ouvrage qui à mon avis n'est guère moindre que la pyramide (sa longueur, en effet, est de cinq stades; sa largeur, de dix orgyies, sa hauteur, à l'endroit où la chaussée est la plus élevée, huit orgyies (*)), fait de pierre polie où sont gravées des figures. Les dix ans auraient donc été consacrés à cette chaussée et aux chambres souterraines de la colline sur laquelle se dressent les pyramides, chambres que Chéops fit aménager pour servir à sa sépulture, dans une île, un canal introduisant là l'eau du fleuve. Pour la construction de la pyramide même, le temps employé aurait été de vingt ans; elle est carrée; elle a de tous les côtés un front de huit plèthres, et une égale hauteur; elle est de pierre polie, exactement jointe; aucun bloc n'y a moins de trente pieds".(* 1 stade = 600 pieds grecs, environ 177,40 mètres). Hérodote, II, 124-125, 127-128.

and particularly:

"...to the underground chambers of the hill on which the pyramids are erected, chambers that Cheops made arrange to be used for its burial, in an island, a channel introducing there the water of the river..."

If the Cheops' sepulchral chamber is according to Herodote's statements about the level of the river, it could not be the "King Chamber" which will be the good one because it is located at nearly 40 meters upper than the level of the base of the pyramid, itself more than 20 meters up of the level of the river!

On March 2002 the discovery of the tomb of Osiris 25 meters under the Chephren's causeway corresponds and confirms well this design of underground chambers connected by water sheaths to the river!, water which was one of the biggest problems during several months to reach it.

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