Overview: Were the pyramids built to provide a highly technical society with energy? Engineer Chris Dunn, author of Lost Secrets of Ancient Egypt, who studies the structural secrets of these ancient sites, says yes. Chris has studied and concluded that the pyramids must have originally been built to provide a highly technical society with energy — in short, it was a very large machine. Christopher Dunn has an extensive background as a craftsman, and has worked at every level of high-tech manufacturing. Chris's pyramid odyssey began in 1977, considering that these edifices may have had an original purpose that differed from conventional opinion. Chris concluded that they must have originally been built to provide a highly technical society with energy. Chris’s book, The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt, describes a holistic energy device that is harmonically coupled with earth and its inhabitants.