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The Great Pyramid of Giza

Everyone has heard about the Great Pyramid of Giza, also called the Khufu’s Pyramid, the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops. But only some of you may have heard about the mysterious dependencies between the structure of the building and, for instance, the astronomical unit.

First, a handful of facts concerning the Pyramid
It is the largest of three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis – located near Cairo in Egypt. The pyramid is 146m high and each side of its square base is 230m long. The pyramid is made of 2.5 million cubic meters of limestone in 2.3 million blocks. Each block is of a weight from 2.5 to 15 tons. The Great Pyramid is thought to have been erected around 2600 BC as a tomb for the Fourth Dynasty Egyptian king Khufu (Cheops in Greek).

The Great Pyramid of Giza had spoken.
In 1880, a Scottish astronomer – Piazzi Smyth – in his book Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid tells the world that Egyptians must have known the Pi number. Smyth had calculated that the perimeter of the base divided by a doubled height of the Great Pyramid equals 3.14159. Is that a coincidence or a proof of great knowledge of the constructors?
Smyth was convinced that it was not a coincidence. Furthermore, in 1867 in his book Life and Work at the Great Pyramid he states that the astronomical unit (the distance between the Earth and the Sun) is also enclosed in the construction of the pyramid. The height of the building measured by Smyth is 147,65m and the ratio between the width of the base and the height of the construction is 10:9. Now, the height multiplied by 109 is equal to the astronomical unit (with an error not bigger than 1%).

An English colonel – Weis – wanted to study the foundations of the pyramid. He did not find them, however he discovered some casing stones of white, polished limestone and measured the angle of slope – exactly 51°51’. Smyth calculated again and it turned out that at midday at march equinox the Sun’s rays strike at the same angle. As a result, once a year (at Egyptian New Year), at 12 pm, the shadow is not cast on the north slope of the Great Pyramid.
In 1900, M. Cotsword organized an expedition which cleaned the terrain around the north slope of the Great Pyramid. Stone plates of width 1,356m were found. Further calculations led them to the conclusion that it must have been a calendar, because every day the shadow of the pyramid was 1,356m shorter. The calendar measured the year time with a precision of 0.23219 day.
Some Egyptologists came to a conclusion that the pyramidal ell (653,66mm), used at the construction of pyramids, is 10 000 000 times shorter than the radius of the Earth measured to one of the Poles.
The perimeter of the base of the pyramid divided by the length of the pyramidal ell equals 365,23 – very close to the length of a year in days. In fact one year is equal to 365,242 days, but we may assume that the error is caused by inaccurate measurement. A 6mm longer perimeter would give the exact result.

Polish senior lecturer A. Wierciński claims that all pyramids on Earth were built using the same proportions, yet different metric units were used.

In XIX century, John Taylor claimed that the dimensions of the Great Pyramid were based on the English inch (2.54cm) and the volume of the sarcophagus was equal to 4 English quarts.

So, what do you think? Are the above-mentioned facts just coincidences or might there be something to it? If there was a chance would you like to explor pyramids?

If you wish to find out some more secrets on your own you may try. Here is the website with measurements

http://www.gizapyramid.com/measurements.htm