Posted on 06/21/2016 12:59:52 PM PDT by Red Badger
Built for the pharaoh Khufu about 4,500 years ago, the Great Pyramid at Giza is considered a wonder of the ancient world. Credit: Nina Aldin Thune, CC Attribution 2.5 Generic ==================================================================================================
The Great Pyramid of Giza may be a Wonder of the Ancient World, but it's not perfect: Its base is a little lopsided because its builders made a teensy mistake when constructing it, new research reveals.
The west side of the pyramid is slightly longer than the east side, scientists have found. Although the difference is very slight, it's enough that a modern-day research team, led by engineer Glen Dash and Egyptologist Mark Lehner, was able to detect the small flaw in a new measuring project.
"The base is not quite square," Dash said. The project is being carried out by the Glen Dash Research Foundation, led by Dash, and Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), led by Lehner. AERA has been mapping and excavating the Giza plateau for about 30 years. [Photos: Amazing Discoveries at Egypt's Giza Pyramids]
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Close enough for gub'mint work!
As a painter once told me; “Spackle covers a multitude of sins.”
Don’t worry, that’ll buff right out (30 Photos)
http://thechive.com/2013/02/19/dont-worry-thatll-buff-right-out-30-photos/
Doomed indeed—but what a great Sci-fi epic it would make! Only the Japanese could do it justice.
If you average all four sides = 755.8088 ft the variance of each side vs the average is respectively, 0.0032%, 0.0285%, 0.0328%, 0.0011%Well said!
Mecha Godzilla vs. The Egyptian Spore Monster!
They’d need to screen it in one of those theaters that vibrates in synch with the action. When the Pyramid Monsters were walking, it would rattle the patrons’ teeth out.
channeling Backhoe?
(FR indexer extraordinaire)
That’s the ticket! Popcorn flying right out of the buckets.
BOL!
The leaning tower of Giza?
That disclaimer has got to be somewhere on the pyramid. It just has not been found yet.
Clay seal inscribed with the name of Khufu from the great pyramid of Gizah. On display at the Louvre. [Wikimedia Commons]
Already pinged it last year, this is just a little bump. We got the bump. Gotta use that bump.
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