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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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.
Heck, every few years they tell us that Mt. Everest is either taller or shorter than it was the last time they measured it!....................
Nah, pyramids are flat out when it comes to HUD standards. They’re not handicapped accessible!
BINGO!
Apparently, originally and for thousands of years, it looked like this (before the other pyramids were built):
Have to tear it down and rebuild it.
Measure twice, pour once.....
ISIS will tear it down.
That will keep them busy for a while...................
Nice. Quality is not always well received....
They used Alien aliens.
Geesh.
Dang rulers weren’t invented yet...
Maybe ... depends on whether they started cannibalizing it in the First Intermediate Period or the Second.
Pharaoh was a ruler................
what is that in cubits?
"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." [
0.241 Royal cubits.
The pyramids were used by the arabs as quarries to build Cairo.
The Romans toted off one pyramid.................I guess that was enough for them....................
Maybe they didn’t want a perfect pyramid.
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