The Great Pyramid is the oldest structure on earth. The
masonry is so great, you could build a highway from San Francisco
to manhattan, new york which would be 8 feet wide and 4 inches
thick. In order to gain some mental picture of The Great
Pyramids size, let's compare it to the world trade center which
is 1368 feet tall. The world trade center took 11 years to build
using 5,000 workers. It is mostly open space with nearly 1 acre
of office space per floor. If you removed all the empty space in
the trade center towers, and then shape the remaining material
into the general shape of The Great Pyramid, placing it along
side, the World Trade Center would be just 4 feet 10 inches tall.
The Great Pyramid is 454 feet tall by 756 feet per side and is
nearly a solid structure. The Great Pyramid is built on top of a
granite mountain whose top just happens to peak at the level of
the Egyptian desert.
* Section 2 The Great Pyramids Location *
If you draw intersecting polar lines north to south and east
to west on a globe which pass through the greatest amount of land
mass, those lines cross exactly where the pyramid sits. There is
only two places on earth where these intersecting lines can
cross. One is in the middle of the pacific ocean and the other
is exactly where the pyramid was built. Note. This was done
before any scientific knowledge of the earth was known and before
any maps of the world were drawn. Columbus, set sail for India
and hit south america. 100 years later, they were still arguing
whether the earth revolved around the sun or the sun revolved
around the earth. Question. At this time, over 4,600 years ago,
who, on earth, could have possibly known where the exact
geographic center of the earth was. Question. Who could have
known of the existence of an underground granite mountain which
would be required to support the millions of pounds displaced by
the giant structure of the Great Pyramid.
* Section 4 The General Structure Of The Great Pyramid *
Originally, The Great Pyramid was covered with 144,000
casing stones. Does the number 144,000 ring a bell? These
casing stones were 20 tons each, 40,000 pounds, in weight. An
earthquake, in about 1400, loosened some of the casing stones and
the Arabs began removing them to take to other locations to build
their mosques; a Moslem house of worship. The casing stones
measured about 5 by 5 by 20 feet and the outer side was highly
polished to a degree greater than your reading glasses are today.
They were, on the outside, as smooth as a mirror. Keep in mind
that such technology did not exist 4,600 years ago. Each sloping
side of The Great Pyramid was 13 acres of polished stone which
reflected the sun like a mirror. It is likely The Great Pyramid
could be visible from the moon. It could literally be seen as a
shinning beacon from the hills of israel before the casing stones
were removed. There still remain a few casing stones at the
ground level which were not removed and can be viewed yet today.
The stones are 5000th of an inch apart even today. They are so
close together, you cannot see the cracks between the stones.
The cracks between stones were deliberate because it allowed
moisture to drain away from the pyramid to keep the stones from
cracking and breaking due to the extreme desert day time and
night time temperatures. compare this to your driveway out in
front of your house or to a common city sidewalk today and think
about what was just described.
The builders of The Great Pyramid used a specially made glue
to cement the casing stones together and to attached them to the
sides of the pyramid's sandstone walls. It was a white substance
made to bond the polished granite stones over 4,600 years ago.
It is as strong as granite itself but has some elasticity to
allow the stones some movement over the centuries without causing
cracking or breaking. Though it has been tried, no one has been
able to replicate this glue today.
* Section 5 The Great Pyramid's Exact Measurements *
Isaac Newton, father of higher mathematics and physics, gave
us so much in the field of science and mathematics and physics,
that a portion of physics to this day is called Newtonian
physics. He accomplished all his mathematical achievements
before the age of 27 years. When trying to prove his theory of
gravity, he needed to know the size of the earth in order to
confirm his theoretical equations. He'd heard about The Great
Pyramid and decided to go to Egypt and attempt to make his own
measurements of the Pyramid in order to determine the earth's
size. He began by using the British inch for his measurements
and discovered his measurements of the pyramid returned
inaccurate data in relation to the earth's mass. He then used
what is called the Sacrad Inch, or the Jewish Inch, or the
Hebraic Inch. Note. That inch is slightly different than the
british and american inch. Once he changed to this form of
measurement, all his calculations began to match perfectly.
The Great Pyramid is a square circle. Pi is twice the
radius of a circle divided by its circumference or periphery. It
took mathematicians centuries to calculate pi and they could only
take pi to 6 decimal places in the 17 hundreds. If you take the
height of The Great Pyramid and double it, then divide that by
it's periphery, which is a square base, you have pi to six
decimal places. Hence, the pyramid is a square circle. Note.
Pi was not calculated by anyone to six decimal places until
hundreds of years after the completion of The Great Pyramid.
Yet, somebody not only knew how to calculate pi back then, they
built a massive structure which calculated pi to six decimal
places.
The periphery of the pyramid, measured by Sir Isaac Newton,
is 36,524 sacrad Jewish inches. Write the number 36,524 on a
piece of paper and look at it. Does anything about the number 3
"6 5 2 4" seem familiar? It just so happens to be the exact
number of days in one year. Leap year is every four years. Thus
some people think we have 365.25 days in one year and the leap
day is added every four years to compensate. This is untrue.
Leap year is skipped every 400 years or when the year ends with a
double zero. For example, there was no leap year in the year
1600 but there will be a leap day in the year 2000 to make the
calendar correct. Hence, the length of one year is 365.24 days
which is exactly what the base measurements of The Great pYramid
revealed over 4,600 years ago. The height of The Great Pyramid
is 454 feet which is also the exact average height of all the
land mass on earth.
Note. Following Isaac Newton's study of the pyramid,
including its measurements and more we are about to discuss, he
gave up science at the age of 27 and dedicated the rest of his
life to the study of the Bible and he wrote books on The Bible,
God, and theology because of what he discovered about The Great
Pyramid. In short, Isaac Newton was converted to Christ because
of his discoveries made at The Great Pyramid.
1.The length of the King's Chamber minus
half the length of the antechamber equals 354
in., which is the number of days in a lunar
year.
2.A circle with the length of the antechamber
(116.25 in.) for its diameter has a total
circumference equaling 365.24 in., which are
the number of days in a solar year.
3.The width of the King's Chamber (206.066
in.) multiplied by the square root of pi
equals 365.24 in.
4.The length of a base side (9,131 in.)
divided by 25 in. (the "Sacred Cubit") equals
365.24 in.
5.Twice the length of the King’s Chamber
(2x412.12 in.), measured along the Grand
Gallery’s floor, contains a vertical rise in
that distance of 365.24 in.
6.The total inch value of the base perimeter
equals the number of days in a century.
7.The total inch value at the 35th-level
perimeter equals the number of days in 80
solar years.
8.Twice the length of the base diagonal
(2x12,913.26 in.) equals the number of years
in the precession of the equinoxes and the
total inch value at the 50th-level perimeter.
9.Adding the length and height of the King's
Chamber and dividing this value by its width
equals pi.
10.Adding the length and width of the
sarcophagus and dividing this value by its
height also equals pi.
11.One face of the pyramid represents one
curved quadrant of the Northern Hemisphere.
12.The apex of the Great Pyramid corresponds
to the North Pole, while the perimeter of its
base correlates to the circumference of the
equator.
13.The Great Pyramid is a perfect almanac,
registering the seasons of the year by
functioning as a huge sundial, whose shadow
indicates, among other things, the solstices
and duration of the year.
In 1978, apparently after having let their own technological prowess intoxicate them with delusions of grandeur, the Japanese Nisson Corporation, with permission of the government of Egypt, embarked upon a project that would prove to be extremely humbling
Their mission was to build a pyramid of lesser proportions on the Gizeh desert just southeast of the 3rd pyramid of king Mekaure. Their focus was not to build for size but to build for technique, following the method expounded upon by Herodotus. They were to quarry the stone out of the nearby hills, float it down the rive, hire Arab workmen as haulers using ropes and pulleys to drag the blocks onto and up the ramps, putting them in place manually without the aid of levers.
Upon beginning construction the Japanese found that they were faced with insurmountable problems. First an foremost, the duplicated hand tools the men were provided with could not cut the stone, so the workers had to resort to the use of air jackhammers. Secondly when the boulders were placed on the rafts another problem arose. They could not prevent the barges from capsizing, since they were soon overrun with water and could not be handled properly. They became unsafe for the men, due to the instability crated by the weight of the steamboat. Upon reaching the shore they ran into a third problem: the limestone boulders began to sink into the river silt and the sand of the desert, and those that did not sink were of no consequence for the men could not budge them. Once again modern technology was called upon in the way of trucks and land rovers to move the stone to the designated site. Finally, adding insult to injury, the great numbers of men that they had amassed, could not lift the blocks by pulley, levers, nor ropes, and as result power cranes plus helicopters were contracted to do the job. Even then, employing the use of today' most powerful lifting machine, those blocks set in place were greatly out alignment, and many (if not most) were broken, chipped and badly scratched, due to improper handling.
Finally, the Government of Egypt interceded and put and end to their agony. The unauthorized use of the heavy land equipment had torn asunder large stretches of desert land which had become quite an eye sore. The project was terminated and the pyramid, what little was intact, was dismantled. What the world learned from this endeavor was two things-one; that the simple methods conservative scholars have for so long said were utilized were totally inadequate, falling way short of the mark-and two; even with aid of modern technology in regards to transportation, lifting, quarrying, and placing these two ton blocks the job left much to be desired.
In comparison, the ingenious masonry work exhibited in the construction of the pyramids, especially the Great Pyramid, far surpassed the meager attempts made by the Japanese. When archaeologists removed one of the few remaining casing stones, (the stones that at one time covered the entire pyramid) on the north side of the pyramid at its base they were shocked at what they discovered. None of the underlying blocks examined had chipped edges, cracks, or even scratches: they were perfect! In reference to the casing stones, one of the world's greatest Egyptologists, Flinders Petrie, found that the faces and butting surfaces of these 16 tone blocks were cut to 1/100 of an inch of mathematical perfection. He reported, "the mean variation of the cutting of the stone from a straight line and from a true square is .01 inch in a length of 75 inches up the face, and amount of accuracy equal to most modern opticians' straight edges of such a length. These joint with an area of some 35 square feet each, were not only worked as finely as this, but were cemented throughout. Though the stones were brought as close 1/500 of an inch, or, in fact, into contact, and the mean opening of the join was 1/50 of an inch, yet builders managed to fill the join with cement, despite the great area of it, and the weight of the stones to be moved-some 16 tons. To merely place such in stones in exact contact at the sides would be careful work, but to do so with cement in the joints seems almost impossible." Thus the builders of these great monoliths quarried and cut approximately 80 acres of casing stone within 1/100 of an inch of perfection, and raised a man-made mountain 4000 years ago as meticulously as we cut gems.
There are approximately 2,300,000 blocks of stone which comprise the Great Pyramid each weighing from 2.5 tons to 70 tons (as much as a railroad locomotive) which originally covered an area of 13.11 acres.
The Great Pyramid contains more stone than all the churches, chapels an cathedrals built in England since the time of Christ. If all the stone in the pyramid were sawed into blocks one foot on a edge and these were laid end-to-end, they would stretch two-thirds of the way around the earth at the Equator.
The Great Pyramid contains enough stone to construct thirty Empire State Buildings.