My endeavor has been to understand something of the mind of the ancient builder as expressed in his works. The best builders used a remarkable communication system to encode their knowledge. The system is specific. It is readable. The medium is stone and the key to its decipherment is measure.
Measure articulates form.
Even though form is silent, if the mind can move, stone can be the instrument of communication. Ancient metrologies emerged from the observation of natural forms and events. Measures had meaningful correspondences to natural phenomena. For example, a pendulum is a simple swinging weight on a string until the string is defined by its length and the beats of its swing are counted as frequencies. Immediately the elements of a system of time and timing are initiated.