The Egyptian cunundrum
Jun 29th, 2008 by Ken Klein
Whatever mystical, occult or science-fiction tales may be associated with the Great Pyramid, it is still an extraordinary piece of masonry, and its designers must have been extraordinary beings. Who they were and when they built their Pyramid remains a mystery. So the quest continues.
The history of Egypt is a long trek across the waterless expanse over the Sahara desert. Once you get started there is no turning back. Who for the life of them would dare to revise what has long been held true. But certain views are held as facts and must be confronted and the textbooks amended.
Whoever built the Great Pyramid knew the dimensions of this planet as they were not to be know again till the seventeenth century of our era. They could measure the day, the year, and the Great Year of the Precession. They knew how to compute latitude and longitude and the transit of the stars.
The designer was able to make maps with minimum distortions and had insight into the knowledge of the diameter of the earth, which was calculated at 500,000,000 inches. From this knowledge using an inch for a year the builder with his knowledge of the procession of the Equinox calculated the sacred Egyptain cubit.
The Fibonacci series In mathematics they discovered, the function of pi, and golden ratio. Who knows what more they knew? But as more is discovered it may open the gate to a whole new civilization of the ancient world, and a much longer history of man than has been credited.
