The Great pyramid has a total volume of 90,000,000 sq.ft. I haven't found the total volume of the interior chambers yet but they look comparatively miniscule compared to the whole. Nobody's accused the Egyptians of being retarded which they would of have to have been to build such giant structures to store a minor amount of grain.
If you have more patience than I it probably wouldn't take long to get an accurate enough volume of the interior chambers volumes by these measurements to blow Carson's theory out of the water. I might give it a try tomorrow.
Dimensions of Interior Chambers
From measurements taken by Petrie and Rutherford
Ascending Passage
Height: 3.94 ft
Length: 97.6 ft
Width: 3.4 ft
Slope: 26°
Descending Passage:
Height: 3.94 ft
Length: 344.3 ft
Width: 3.4 ft
Slope: 26° 30’
Subterranean Chamber:
Length: 46.1 ft
Width: 26.9 ft
Dead End Passage Length: 53.8 ft
Grand Gallery
Height: 28.2 ft.
Width: 3.4 ft
Length: 156.9 ft
Slope: 26°
King’s Chamber
Length: 34.38 ft
Width: 17.19 ft
Height (to floor surface): 17.1 ft
Height (to true base): 19.2 ft
Queen’s Chamber
Passage (first portion)
Height: 3.9 ft
Width: 3.4 ft.
Passage (second protion)
Height: 5.6
Width: 3.4 ft
Length (E to W): 18.9 ft
Width (N to S): 17.19 ft
Height: 15.3 ft
Height to Apex: 20.3
Slope of ceiling: 30° 26’
Angle of “Air Shafts”
Queen’s Chamber
North: 39°
South: 39° 30’
King’s Chamber
North: 32° 28’
South: 45°
Lets figure it out.
The ascending passage is approximately 1400 cubic feet.
The descending passage is about 6300 cubic feet.
The subterranean chamber is 16100 cubic feet (*)
Dead end pasasge is about 750 cubic feet (**)
Grand Gallery is about 15,000 cubic feet.
Kings Chamber is about 11,500 cubic feet
The Relieving chambers are 32,000 cubic feet (***)
Queens Chamber (passages) 2400 cubic feet (****)
Queens chamber: about 5000 cubic feet
Airshafts (x4): about 2700 cubic feet *****
Total: 93, 150 cubic feet. And for any odds and ends we might have missed, lets round up to
100,000 cubic feet for all interior passageways, chambers, airshafts, etc.
With the total volume of the Great Giza pyramid being 90,000,000 cubic feet that means that the interior chambers, passageways, airshafts, galleries, deadends, everything....
....accounted for 0.11% of the internal volume.
What granary in history allocated only 1/10th of 1% of its volume to storage?
* (
Measurements of the Great Pyramid puts the maximum height of the subterranean chamber at 3.94 meters or 13 feet.)
** using the width and height of other passages at 4' by 3.5'
*** Reveiling chambers above kings chamber are mostly filled with a series of nested stone rooves.
**** Using gizapyramid.com/measurements length of 125 feet with maximum height for full passage.
***** using longest length of 59 meters (194 ft), and dimensions of 0.7' x 0.7 feet. Four in total, northern and southern for king, another set for queen.