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Great Pyramid of Giza Is Slightly Lopsided
www.livescience.com ^ | June 20, 2016 07:30am ET | By Owen Jarus

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]

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Education; History
KEYWORDS: 4thdynasty; egypt; ggg; giza; glendash; godsgravesglyphs; greatpyramid; khufu; marklehner; oldkingdom; pyramid
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To: Red Badger
Apparently, this has been known long before now.

My old high school shop teacher used this fact way back in l964 or thereabouts, to illustrate the "measure twice, cut once" thingy.

He related that when he went to college (Georgia Tech, as I recall) it was a known and discussed fact that the measurements were just a wee bit off.

Actually, he initially was discussing the concrete footings for one of the NYC bridges, in that quite a few mistakes were made by the guys that built the wooden forms.

I suspect that if one were do extensive research, one would find quite a few of the iconic structures we all know of were measured wrong somewhere or somehow.

41 posted on 06/21/2016 1:55:26 PM PDT by OldSmaj (Voting for Hillary because she is a woman is like eating a turd because it looks like a Baby Ruth.)
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To: OldSmaj

Heck, every few years they tell us that Mt. Everest is either taller or shorter than it was the last time they measured it!....................


42 posted on 06/21/2016 1:57:42 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Paladin2

Nah, pyramids are flat out when it comes to HUD standards. They’re not handicapped accessible!


43 posted on 06/21/2016 2:01:46 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: rigelkentaurus

BINGO!


44 posted on 06/21/2016 2:04:06 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....eI aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Tax-chick
Because the pyramid was originally covered in angled casing stones, providing a smooth exterior surface, the original base dimensions were slightly larger than what’s observable today. (info from the article)

Apparently, originally and for thousands of years, it looked like this (before the other pyramids were built):


45 posted on 06/21/2016 2:04:14 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Red Badger

Have to tear it down and rebuild it.


46 posted on 06/21/2016 2:05:31 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: OldSmaj

Measure twice, pour once.....


47 posted on 06/21/2016 2:05:42 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....eI aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Larry Lucido

ISIS will tear it down.
That will keep them busy for a while...................


48 posted on 06/21/2016 2:06:44 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Talisker

Nice. Quality is not always well received....


49 posted on 06/21/2016 2:07:40 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....eI aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: butlerweave

They used Alien aliens.


50 posted on 06/21/2016 2:08:03 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Red Badger
Come on, people, it's a government project. We're lucky it doesn't have five sides.

Geesh.

51 posted on 06/21/2016 2:08:55 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Red Badger

Dang rulers weren’t invented yet...


52 posted on 06/21/2016 2:10:42 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Talisker
for thousands of years

Maybe ... depends on whether they started cannibalizing it in the First Intermediate Period or the Second.

53 posted on 06/21/2016 2:12:25 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Estos sufrimientos pasaran, y la esperanza una salida marcara." ~ Abp. Romero)
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To: broken_arrow1

Pharaoh was a ruler................


54 posted on 06/21/2016 2:15:08 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Tax-chick

what is that in cubits?


55 posted on 06/21/2016 2:24:13 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (JFK Wanted To Send Man To Moon - Obama Wants To Send Man To Ladies Room)
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To: Red Badger
This means that, at most, the west side was only 5.55 inches (14.1 centimeters) longer than the east side. Though that would leave the pyramid not quite square, it's a remarkable level of precision for a monument constructed more than 4,500 years ago, the researchers noted.

"The data show that the Egyptians possessed quite remarkable skills for their time," Dash wrote in the report. "We can only speculate as to how the Egyptians could have laid out these lines with such precision using only the tools they had." [

56 posted on 06/21/2016 2:37:22 PM PDT by kabar
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To: NonValueAdded; Tax-chick
what is that in cubits?

0.241 Royal cubits.

57 posted on 06/21/2016 2:42:04 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Red Badger
"ISIS will tear it down."

The pyramids were used by the arabs as quarries to build Cairo.

58 posted on 06/21/2016 2:46:30 PM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: Flag_This

The Romans toted off one pyramid.................I guess that was enough for them....................


59 posted on 06/21/2016 2:52:04 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Red Badger

Maybe they didn’t want a perfect pyramid.


60 posted on 06/21/2016 2:55:59 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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