The many many unsolved mysteries impossible fetes, and mystical tales are all part of the mystique surrounding the Great Pyramid, yet there stands the most remarkable piece of masonry in history. The incredible design features alone suggests an intelligence far beyond what one would assume normal for that day.
But certain facts must be confronted, and the textbooks amended to conform with them. Eratosthenes was obviously not the first to measure the circumference of the earth. Hipparchus was not the inventor of trigonometry. Pythagoras did not originate his famous theorem. Mercator did not invent his projection.
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.
He or they knew how to map the earth into degrees of latitude and longitude from different locations on the earth. Without airplanes or satellites, maps could be made with minimum distortions. They knew the diameter of the earth wherein the were able to calculate and establish the universal measurement of the inch.
Mathematics so advanced, they were not invented or re-discovered till millenia later: Pi, the Fibonacci series, and the golden ratio. We have just scratched the surface of what this past civilization knew, and the more we find a much longer history of man than before was credited.
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Author: Ken Klein is a independent film producer and investigator. His research has illuminated mysteries surrounding the Great Pyramid. For a free tour of the Great Pyramid get his free Great Pyramid walk though video.
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