One of the numbers seemingly recorded at Giza through measurement that doesn’t seem to get discussed often enough it the Great Pyramid’s diagonal length, particularly that derived from Carl Munck’s model of the Great Pyramid. I know I make passing reference to it often enough, but I can’t remember the last time I wrote somethingContinue reading “On The Great Pyramid’s Diagonal Length”
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Another Megalithic Yard?
For a long time now, I’ve been familiar with a figure of 2.718208958, which I’ve thought of as a mathematical constant rather than a metrological unit although it is indeed close to Alexander Thom’s Megalithic Yard of about 2.72 feet – so close that it may be up to mathematics and not measurement to sortContinue reading “Another Megalithic Yard?”
A Few Musings on Petrie and the Orientation of the Giza Pyramids
Twelve years ago after long having to take matters into my own hands with missing details from Munck’s model of Giza, I decided that once and for all I was going to take all of Giza apart piece by piece and leave no uncertainty about their being details that Munck’s ideas couldn’t account for. ThatContinue reading “A Few Musings on Petrie and the Orientation of the Giza Pyramids”
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