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Pyramidographia

The Geometry of the Great Pyramid

The Great Pyramid has been measured countless times and countless theories about the origin and meaning of its geometry have been proposed.

Detailed information about the geometry of the Great Pyramid can be found in many places on the internet. Flinders Petries The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh has been digitised by Ronald Birdsal and the Giza Plateau Maping Project has created an accurate model of the whole plateau. The Guardian’s Egypt website contains a great collection of detailed photographs and Rudolph Gantenbrink has provided detailed information about the channels in the pyramid.

Problem with this data is that the Petrie book is very hard to read because it does not contain many plans and sections and the data of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project is not available to the public. I thus decided to create my own drawings.

Drawings

These drawings have been prepared in QCAD and should to be printed on A3 paper. Only one drawing has been completed till date.

  1. Site plan
  2. General Layout
  3. Middle Chamber.
  4. Gallery
  5. Ante chamber
  6. Upper Chamber

Sources

  • Cole, J.H., Determination of the exact size and orientation of the Great Pyramid of Giza (Government Press: Cairo 1925), Published in Duat cd-rom magazine, issue 1, September 2002.
  • Feisal, Esmael A. (Ed.), The first international sympsium on the application of modern technology to archaeological explorations at the Giza necropolis (Egyptian Antiquities Organization Press: Cairo December 1987).
  • Gantenbrink, Rudolf, The Upanaut Project.
  • Lepre, J.P., The Egyptian pyramids (McFarlan & Company: Jefferson 1990).
  • Petrie, W.M. Flinders, The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh (History & Mysteries of Man: London 1990), Revised edition with an update by Zahi Hawass.
  • Smyth, Piazzi, The Great Pyramid (Granmercy Books: New York 1978). Orginally published as Our inheritance in the Great Pyramid (1880).
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  1. Michael

    4 February 2010 at 16:01

    The pyramid as we are given it reasons from a ground level view of the matter.
    The “pyramid is in a “box”. The “box” is hollowed out in such a way as to receive a “pyramid” (it is “pyramid shaped” inside when looking into it).
    There are “three pyramids” in the construction of the one we see above the surface at ground level. “Two” are set one on top of the other, forming a “diamond” shape (or bottom to bottom, giving up six points). The third is formed by “cutting” the “box” in such a way as to create for section, which when turned back to back, form the third pyramid. These “three collectively form the whole pyramid” (we only see what above ground level.
    The “summit” is not missing! It is down inside the collective pyramid.
    Seems pretty odd no shows us how the underground (retaining walls) of the pyramid exist. No one reasons from how it is set in place. It is in a box. The path way around the pyramid, the walkway, is the “lip of the box”. We always get cut away graphs or illustrations showing us the interior. Where are the walls or flooring?
    By the way, you cannot create a true pyramid unless you reason from a “rectangle” (refer to Egyptians veiwing the world as existing in a “rectangle” supported by for colunms (The “box” cut into four smaller pyramids, and when placed back to back create a pyramid of its own). In “mytholoy” it is found in stories dealing with the “sacred mountains”, like the one of “Moses” whom came down from the “mountain” and Broke the Tables” (tablets).
    When “moses’” two tablets are brought together they form a “square” from the two “rectangles”. Those were the rules (laws) written on those “tablets” for breaking the “tables”. If you do not know “tables” and “tablets” are used by the different sources in translations of the “Moses” tale. How many sides are formed by three pyramids? These are the “twelve tribes”! By saying that “Moses” came down off the moutain, it is reference for his having found the “missing summit” down inside the pyramid, and then broke the “tables”.
    Good luck, you will need it, more than you know.

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  2. Joseph Turbeville

    19 May 2010 at 01:20

    Lost design secrets of the Great pyramid are recovered by a mathematical “source of reasoning” developed by this author in an article titled “THE GREAT PYRAMID ARCHITECT HAD A SECRET” (see website)
    The findings revealed are amazingly in agreement with the Anglocentric measurements recorded by W.M.Flinders Petrie in his famous book, “The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh”.

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    • lambert krikke

      28 May 2010 at 22:06

      suggest you read The Giza Power Plant by Christopher Dunn and exchange ideas with the author.
      Many wonderful insights might result.

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      • Peter Prevos

        29 May 2010 at 08:25

        Hi Lambert,

        I’m afraid I am not to impressed with Dunn’s work. It is based on much speculation. Why can’t the pyramids simply are what they are – massive tombs.

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