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3D Technology Solves the Mystery of the Great Pyramid

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01_ Editorial: Understanding and

Communicating in 3D

02_ Khufu - a Giant in the Desert

03_ The Mystery of the Great Pyramid

04_ The Birth of a Theory : One Man’s Intuition

05_ Jean-Pierre Houdin and Dassault Systèmes :

How They Joined Forces

06_ 3D Simulation at the Service of Theory

07_ The 21st Century Medium: 3D

08_ The 3D Revolution

09_ Appendix 1: Biographies

10_ Appendix 2: The Theory in Images

11_ Appendix 3: Glossary

01_ Editorial

Understand and Communicate

in 3 Dimensions!

This is the story of an encounter. An encounter of the

past and the future. Of history and high technology.

Above all, an encounter of men not expecting to em-

bark on such an adventure. One of them was seeking

to solve an age-old enigma; the others, glued to their

computer screens, were striving to link the future with

the present. For their paths to cross there had to be a

crossroads. And not just one crossroads in fact but two:

the Pyramid of Khufu and 3D technology.

Dassault Systèmes’ 3D tools are used to design and vi-

sualise the finest industrial projects of our age. Many of

these projects were unachievable yesterday, and even

today they defy reason and breach traditional boun-

daries. By enabling giant aircrafts, futuristic buildings

or even just automobiles, for example, to be designed

in record time, industrial 3D tools allow us to think

differently and thus innovate. But does the notion of

innovation necessarily have to be linked to the future?

Couldn’t it also help us revisit the past in the light of

new ideas? Won over by Jean-Pierre Houdin’s passion

and stimulated by the challenge, Dassault Systèmes

have for the past two years been using advanced scien-

tific 3D tools to examine every detail of his theory.

It all began 4,500 years ago, when a civilisation that

knew nothing of iron tools, the wheel or pulleys built

one of the most mysterious monuments in the entire

history of humankind: the Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt.

How did they do it? Nobody alive today knows with any

certainty. But it was exactly this unresolved riddle that

led several teams at Dassault Systèmes, the world lea-

der in real-time 3D technology, to provide backing for

an architect and author of a revolutionary theory about

the Great Pyramid, Jean-Pierre Houdin.

Because we also think that 3D will be one of the pre-

mier mediums of the 21st century, we wanted to share

this extraordinary human adventure with the widest

possible audience. Thus was born the first virtual

reality installation that will allow spectators to travel

back in time and visit the amazing construction site of

the Pyramid of Khufu in real-time. On the giant screen

of the Géode or on a computer screen connected to

the World Wide Web, we welcome you on board for this

fabulous voyage through time - connecting the future to

the past.

History has often shown us that scientific theories stem

initially from intuition. Jean-Pierre Houdin’s hunch

changed the course of his life. For the last eight years,

he has devoted himself to developing the first scientific

theory capable of fully explaining the construction of

the Pyramid of Khufu.

Mehdi Tayoubi

Dassault Systèmes

02_ Khufu - a Giant in the Desert

The Last of the

Seven Wonders

of the World

By definition a pyramid is a solid figure on a rectangular

base, having four triangular faces meeting at an apex.

For historians, it is a royal tomb from ancient Egypt. For

the whole of humankind, the three pyramids standing

on the Giza plateau at the gates of Cairo, Egypt, Khufu,

Chephren and Mykerinos, represent both a treasure

and mystery.

The Great Pyramid is said to be the last of the Seven

Wonders of the World still standing, the only one to

have resisted the madness of men and the fury of the

elements through time. It was known as the tallest

structure in History with a height of 146 metres, until

the Eiffel Tower was built. And yet we know neither how

it was built nor how long it took to build, by men who

had no knowledge of iron tools, wheels or pulleys. We

have no idea what astonishing finds still lie concealed

behind its stone walls.

What we know about these pyramids is that they were

built nearly three thousand years before Christ to

contain the remains of three pharaohs. Although the

most impressive of these stone structures, the Pyramid

of Khufu, has been studied and photographed countless

times, its heart remains a mystery, evoking images of

incredible riches and powerful curses.

As a witness to 4,500 years of history, the Pyramid of

Khufu has seen the world’s greatest men come and go.

Men who admired the excessiveness of its symbolism,

who dreamt of infinite conquests or even of immorta-

lity. Passing rulers and anonymous travellers, over the

centuries so many have come to walk on its stones.

Some, intoxicated by the extraordinary feeling of the

place, told themselves that such excess could have no

human origin and that only an alien civilisation from far

away could have produced such a marvel.

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