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A FACTFILE: THE PYRAMID OF GIZA The great pyramids-a work of art and scientific marvel created many many years ago that cannot be reproduced today even by the latest technological advancements.Well, join me on brief tour for a dazzling look at the world's oldest, largest, and most mysterious structure, the Great Pyramid of Giza. Let me start right from the start and give you a lowdown on some of the most exhilirating and perhaps mind-blowing facts on the great pyramid. According to common perception they were built, with the begrudging help of great armies of slaves, by the ancient pharaohs of Egypt as tombs for preserving their royal bodies. Pyramids were meant to be monuments to the pharaoh's greatness, filled with great treasures for the afterlife. To construct these massive shrines, the pharaoh's copied the oldest and largest pyramid of all, the Great Pyramid of Giza. But the Great Pyramid itself contains no pharaoh's body, no treasure chamber, and no treasures. Who, then, designed it and built it? What was its purpose? We do not know. But what we do know is this: 1.Thirty times larger than the Empire State Building (one of the tallest buildings in the world) the Pyramid's features are so large they can be seen from the Moon. Its base covers 13.6 acres, each side being greater than five acres in area. 2. A highway lane eight feet wide and four inches thick could be built from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and put inside the Great Pyramid. 3. The oldest structure in existence, having been started 4,617 years ago, it is the sole remnant of the Seven Wonders of the World. 4. A flat solid granite mountain happens to be located just beneath the surface of the ground directly under the Pyramid. 5.The Pyramid is built to face true North and is located at the exact center of the Earth's land mass, whats more, the odds of it's having been built where it is are 1 in 3 billion. 6. The Great Pyramid did not always look as "rough" as it does today. Originally it was encased with a layer of tight-fitting, highly polished casing stones, 144,000 in all, were so brilliant that they could literally be seen from the mountains of Israel hundreds of miles away. 7. Amazingly, the outside surface stones are cut within 0.01" and at nearly perfect right angles for all six sides. And they were placed together with an intentional gap between them of 0.02". Modern technology cannot place such 20-ton stones with greater accuracy than those in the Pyramid. Even more amazing is that the 0.02" gap was designed to allow space for glue to seal and hold the stones together. A white cement that connected the casing stones and made them watertight is still intact and stronger than the blocks that it joins. Let's pause from our tour for a moment's rest and reflection. Whoever built the Pyramid used a technologly that we still do not possess today to cut, move, and cement stones. Whoever built it also had some knowledge of the Earth, because it was built in the right spot-one of the few places that would support such a great weight. The builder also knew where the greatest land mass of the Earth was in both the North-South and East-West directions. And it gets even better.... The builder was also an expert in geometry!!!! For instance: 8. We know from geometry that there is a universal relationship between the diameter of a circle and its circumference. Consider this: The height of the Pyramid's apex is 5,812.98 inches, and each side is 9,131 inches from corner to corner (in a straight line). If the circumference of the Pyramid is divided by twice its height the result is 3.14159, which just happens to be pi. Incredibly, this calculation is accurate to six digits. Thus pi was designed into it 4,600 years ago! 9. Other numbers are also repeated throughout. Each of the Pyramids four walls, when measured as a straight line, are 9,131 inches, for a total of 36,524 inches. At first glance, this number may not seem significant, but move the decimal point over and you get 365.24. Modern science has shown us that the exact length of the solar year is 365.24 days. All of the evidence in the Great Pyramid shows that 4,600 years ago somebody knew a great deal about the Earth. But it gets better, much better: 10. The average height of land above sea level (Miami being low and the Himalayas being high), as can be measured only by modern-day satellites and computers, happens to be 5,449 inches. That is the exact height of the Pyramid. And now readers, if you aren`t stunned yet, read on...This one is a body-blow.....a definite knockout. Clearly, whoever built the Pyramid had access to information beyond that which earthlings possessed at the time, at least earthlings as we know them. Now, one can argue that we were visited by scientifically advanced beings from outer space who taught us their technology!! Who were these `people`? Supernatural, Extraterrestrial, Alien life forms ....?? While that may seem likely from the evidence provided, we stiil cannot debate that there were people who, at that point of time possesed a much superior intelligence and skill level. And that is a fact !!! Kudos to them !!scientific marvel created many many years ago that cannot be reproduced today even by the latest technological advancem brief tour for a dazzling look at the world's oldest, largest, and most mysterious INPUTS FROM NISHANT NAYAK -Mayur Venkateswaran |
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