Back in 2000 or so, Mr Goerlitz and Mr Erdmann paid off some Egyption authorities for a plan they had. Many people don't realise The Great Pyramid has NO hieroglyphs in it, and NO bodies. Yet officials say it's a 2 to 4 thousand year old burial chamber. Many smaller pyramids are covered inside with hieroglyphs, and sarcophagi. The Great Pyramid is a unique mystery in that regard.
In 1837, Colonel Howard Vyse went poking around and "found" a couple of scribbles in the pyramids structure in red pigment. Mentioning an Egyptian king... and therefore dating the pyramids. Until then it was impossible to date them because bare stone can't be dated.
Some people think the Great Pyramid is ANCIENT, many more thousands of years earlier than thought, but for that to remain a possibility the red cartouche would need to be found to be a forgery - written by Vyse himself. This is possible - there's only a bit of scribbled ink in the whole pyramid! No hieroglyphs... So Mr Goerlitz and Mr Erdmann made off with some pigment, got in lots of trouble, but were able to get it to Dresden University in order to date the cartouche.
If it was found to be dated around 1800's... that would mean NO writing from the time of the pyramid being built exists in the entire multi million tonne building, and as stone cannot be carbon dated - the building of the Great Pyramid itself then becomes wide open to discussion again, and can possibly be 10,000 years older than thought. There is NO mention of the Great Pyramid in any Egyptian hieroglyphs to help out with dating it.
If the pigment dates to around 2500 BC... it would confirm the text was written when the official build date said it was, confirming official sources.
The only issue?
Dresden University has been silent since 2005 on anything to do with the dating.
They may be sitting on the most upsetting Egyptian finding since the actual Egyptian tombs were raided - that the Great Pyramid is in fact much more ancient than any of the surrounding pyramids in all of Egypt. This would bring who the builders were into question. The timeline of many Egyptian events... It would be huge. A much more ancient building than thought would explain why there are no Egyptian hieroglyphs inside - the Pyramid wasn't opened until long past the Old Kingdom's passing, and so there were no Egyptians with access who would decorate the Pyramid internally.
Try a search for yourself, I still haven't found any results: "Goerlitz and Erdmann Dresden University dating cartouche"
another thing I'm always bothered by is the hidden chambers. We know there's a chamber underneath one of the sphinx's paws, and another big void in the great pyramid, and we're supposed to believe that these are just unexplored and no one knows what's there. in the case of the void under the sphinx they give one of their well-worn excuses about how the water level prevents them from accessing it, but even if that is true, we're supposed to believe that nobody has at least sent in a robot to look around? it's not even that far underground. I'm pretty even-keel in general but I get so infuriated when I think about this stuff. The ancient monuments should be considered global human heritage, open access. That those in charge believe only they have the right to know what is in these hidden areas, and to know the truth of these ancient monuments, is an unforgivable sin.
one of the narrow little 'air vent' passageways from the grand gallery supposedly leads directly towards where this unexplored void is as well.
this is the one I'm talking about. it is in fact the biggest chamber in the entire pyramid. https://physicsworld.com/a/muons-reveal-hidden-void-in-egyptian-pyramid/#:~:text=In%20the%201960s%20the%20American%20physicist%20and%20future,are%20no%20other%20large%20chambers%20in%20that%20pyramid. in the past they've sent little robots into unexplored, hard to reach areas, and this has been in the news now for over 3 years. so it's very likely that somebody knows what's in that chamber and we won't hear about it until everything of interest has been removed. either that or it'll get memory holed in the case that it would reveal too much about the pyramid's function.
Oh, the water pump theory predicts there would be another void there? That's very interesting.