[Palter]

[Palter]

Giza, ping.

[silverleaf]

kewl stuff

Anyone out there climbed this puppy?

I have!

[beebuster2000]

the mind boggles at the % of the Egypt nations GDP went into the pyramid, and for what? stimulus? hmmm.....

[frogjerk]

I was there a long time ago. An incredible sight!

[the invisib1e hand]

now that's stimulus.

[RWGinger]

Great great article

and thank you
those pictures are the cloest I will ever get to being inside.

As I told my friends at caves in KY I will wait for you in the gift shop.

thanks for posting
and the pic of the WWII plane flying over the pyramids is spectacular!

[winodog]

Nice pic!! Got anymore?

[ETL]

Here's an enlargement of the diagram:

[Red_Devil 232]

C-46 over the Pyramids! neat!

[Inyo-Mono]

Very interesting article bump!

[JoeProBono]

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

But this means they do not realize that the Arab chronicles they cite are collections of legends and traditions needing interpretation

That is the politest way of saying that Arabs lie like rugs that I have ever read.

[Daffynition]

[P.O.E.]

Under the Pyramids By H. P. Lovecraft (with Harry Houdini) tells Houdini's tale of being abducted, dropped into the Great Pyramid, and eventually finding his way to a temple underneath the Sphinx.

[SunkenCiv]

Hate to pick nits, but that photo with the plane is mirror image. :’)

[tarheelswamprat]

“All men fear Time, but Time fears the pyramids” - ancient Egyptian saying

[Bellflower]

Not everyone believes the status quo theories as to why the pyramid was built or even when it was built.

[Lancey Howard]

The Mayan pyramids were more stylish.

[bert]

Given the extreme mathematical precision of the structure, I think such effort would not be wasted on a mere tomb. I follow thw thoughts of Peter Tompkins that the pyramids are multipurpose structures.

They are geodesic in nature and can be used to survey land by plotting and measuring angular distances from afar. The so calledthe royal sarcophagus is a standard for volume and weight. The content of the vessel stored under the standard temperature and pressure becomes the standard for a weight and measure of volume.

The structure had astronomical uses as well when specific stars were viewed in specific dates. The alignment provided a calendar by measuring or marking shadows as they progressed across the shadow plane.

and on and on..... As an engineer who has lived and died by measuring and constructing buildings to those measurements, I am awed by the precision of such an effort. We don’t waste such effort on a mere tomb. Those are in the Vally of the KIngs.