From: v064lnev@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Avatar)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
Subject: The Great Pyramid of Giza
Date: 19 Nov 92 12:15:00 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo
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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

	I believe that this is precisely the case with regards to the Great
Pyramid of Giza.  Lets consider the facts, shall we?

	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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