Hi Dennis.

DUNE Wrote:
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> Hi Lee,
> In saying G3 was built over an Existing
> core, are you implying it predates the final build
> by a significant amount of years ?,

I subscribe to the idea the Sphinx and associated limestone temples predate the 4th Dynasty, which I would include the bedrock base of G2 and the core structure of G3, possibly others structures like some of the mastabas. And even then this may not mean they were all built at the same time.
Khufu Knew the Sphinx.
Giza Before the Fourth Dynasty

I am open to the possibility the Sphinx and temples may be even older than offered by Reader.

> or is it that
> what we are seeing is just a change of plan by the
> ongoing builders of that specific time, in a
> similar vein that one can see other changes of
> plans during the building of G2 ,

Is what we see at G2 "changes in plans" or just building a pyramid over the top of something that was already there? Saqqara and Meidum are notable known previous examples of such.


> So in conclusion i still hold to the master plan ,
> and that these build anomalies at Giza are the
> product of corrections .

Just because some of these structures may have already been there does not mean the "master plan" idea is invalid as this master plan is the end result. To argue for one is not to argue against the other.

> It does seem G3 marks the end of BIG pyramid
> building as all the remaining pyramids built from
> this time onwards never got much over 346 ft for
> their base, and there were at least 20 pyramids
> built after G3.

Indeed.