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- Subject: The Great Pyramid of Giza
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:15:00 GMT
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- "The natural tendency of a traditionally trained archeologist is to fit
- his finds into the fashionable preconcieved matrix of ideas regarding the shape
- of prehistory that it is a long, slow, upward gradient leading inexorably from
- primitive man to the summit of modern society's achievements. It is his very
- ability to do so that has gained him his qualifications as an archeologist.
- Consequently, had earlier civilizations left behind aircraft runways, say, then
- it is likely that they would be classified as 'ritual causeways'; an
- earth-and-stone-built chamber for screening off radioactive waste or machinery
- would of course take on an unintended role as a 'tomb'; an astronomical
- observatory-cum-computer would immediately start a new life as a temple; and
- skyward-facing navigational markings for airships would become 'magic designs
- for the appeasement of the gods'." -unknown author
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- I believe that this is precisely the case with regards to the Great
- Pyramid of Giza. Lets consider the facts, shall we?
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- The pyramid stones, some of which weighed up to 70 tons, were so finely
- cut and positioned as to give joints of less than a fiftieth of an inch in
- thickness. Not to mention that the tools employed by the Egyptians, at the
- time, were not of sufficient hardness to even dent some of the types of stone
- used in the construction. Next, a fine cement was then run into these joints
- so expertly as to give an even coverage of areas as big as five feet by seven.
- The pyramid's now almost totally despoiled original outer casing of polished
- limestone (all twenty-one acres of it) was levelled and honed to the standard
- of accuracy normal in modern optical work. As a geodetic marker and an orbital
- observatory, the Great Pyramid is so perfectly oriented with the cardinal
- directions that modern compasses are adjusted to it. Furthermore, this
- spectacular pyramid is sited at the exact center of the geometrical quadrant
- formed by the Nile Delta. Using the Sacred Cubit, nearly every one of the
- Pyramid's basic external and internal measurements can be expressed as a
- function of the quantity pi and 365.242. The quantity pi, by the way, had
- supposedly not been discovered yet, and 365.242 is the number of days in the
- solar tropical year. And lastly, though archeologists all consider the pyramid
- to be a tomb, not one corpse has ever been found within the structure, nor is
- there any evidence to indicate that their ever were.
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