Horrible News

Woe is me! I have received the worst possible news that any king could receive. My architects just sent word to me that they couldn't fix the underlying problems with the structure of the pyramid at Dahshur without changing the angle of incline! If they change the angle of incline, then it will no longer be a true, perfect pyramid! It will be...bent.

Is such a pyramid worthy of your supreme ruler?

Perhaps so. Do the gods hate me and this is just their way of showing their disdain?  Although I was completely raged when I found this news out, I went to the site to try to understand what went wrong with my pyramid. As they were adding on to the pyramid, cracks began to grow in the three chambers and corridors. When my architects came to me last time, they said that they had it under control. They tried to fix these cracks by by using fillings.

Despite their best attempts, there was too much damage that couldn't be fixed. My builders even tried giving up the lower chamber of the pyramid. But to no avail. Years of work are on the verge of self-destruction!

My architects believe that the only way they can try to save the project is to reduce the angle of incline of the pyramid. The damage probably came from the high angle of the inside layers,  which slope at 60 degrees at the bottom, and thus created an unstable structure. Now, my architects plan to change the building method to building by horizontally laying courses of the blocks of stone, at a less steep angle of 44 degrees.

I appreciate that my architects are going to try to salvage this project for me, but I can never have a deformed, not true pyramid, as my final resting place. This pyramid was meant to be an innovative and ground breaking design. Instead, it literally broke the ground... chambers. Okay failed attempt of a joke, but hey I'm the king, being funny isn't a requirement. I want to see how the project ends up, but I'm thinking maybe the third time is the charm...

King out -- Snefru