Thee Great Pyramid of Egypt
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The definite purpose of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is unknown to any living person, but many scholars have speculated on the purpose and on the many other mysteries associated with the Egypt-ian pyramids. Thousands of articles and books, both scholarly and popular, have been written about the Egyptian pyramids. After all, "the Pyramids of Egypt are immensely large, immensely ancient, and by general consensus, extremely useless" (Mendelssohn 9). Towering above them all, the Great Pyramid of Khufu stands alone, unique in both size and proportion. Its base covers 13 acres, or 7 midtown blocks of the city of New York. Over this large area, over two-and-a-half million blocks of limestone and granite, some weighing as much as 70 tons, as high as a modern forty-five story building (Tompkins 1). The Pyramid continually captivates the minds of scholars and sparks the imagination of nearly everyone who dis-covers it.Many unanswered questions contribute to the intrigue of the Great Pyramid. How were the ancient Egyptians able to transport fifteen-ton slabs of granite across the Nile river? How did they happen to incorporate the transcendental mathematical figure, pi[1], into its dimensions, when historical data reveals they knew only a rough approximation of the value a millennium after the Pyramid's construction (Mendelssohn 64)? These and many other questions baffle pyramid scholars and laymen alike. Probably the most controversial topic among pyramid scholars today, however, is th
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, the Great Pyramid's height stands almost exactly in the same ratio to its circumference as the radius to the cir-cumference of a circle. This ratio is one to two pi (Mendelssohn 50). "Accurate measurements of [the Great Pyramid's] foundation has shown that this ratio is correctly represented to better than one part in a thousand" (Mendelssohn 50). The Egyptians definitely had some knowledge of the value of pi or else had utilized some construction technique which inadvertently created the pi proportion.
In addition to the belief that the pyramid embodied many significant numbers, many scholars believed that the inner passages of the Pyramid constituted a great observatory, used by the Egyptians during construction. Eugene Michel Antoniadi, a professional astronomer and Egyptologist, argues that the inner passages of the pyramid could have allowed Egyptian priests to observe about 80 of the sky, which would have enabled them to construct a complete star map and even the first world maps with longitude and latitude (Tompkins 158). Considering that the ancient Egyptians became very ardent in their worship of the sun and other heavenly bodies, this proposal suggests that the pyramid may represent the demands of a major cult group t
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Approximate Pages = 13 (250 words per page)
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