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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Foundation crew: “The framers will compensate for that.”
Framers: “The drywallers will cover that up.”
Drywallers: “The finish guy will hide that.”
Finish guy: “*&*@, *^^@ @#*&s!!”
Jefe and his crew can have it done by Friday, Monday at the latest as long as your paying cash.
Damn those pesky earthquakes. Always changing the altitudes.
The other large pyramids were built within a couple of centuries of the great one. I have also read the there was a slight indentation on all 4 sides so that a surface had a faint path for water on each smooth side. Eventually, people started stealing the smooth covering for building other things.
Drivel
The pyramid as it is now can not be considered as out of alignment.
Any out of square or dimensional problem was most certainly remedied in the sheathing. What’s there now is but a rough cut
That’s what I was thinking, as well. The architect in charge left himself an ‘out’ by covering the outside with smooth limestone and covered up any inconsistencies, just so he could live to build another one...........................
I pay by the job, not by the hour, Jefe, so make it quick before ‘The Man’ shows up............................
It must have been built by illegal aliens.......................;^)
Exactly so. The architect wanted to live another day.....................
Maybe there were trees there then. That's why it's a desert there now........................
...some settling of contents may happen during shipment and 4000 years of use.......................
Not quite, but in building it one discovered the intricacies of building one. The one my daughter had was about ten inches square on the bottom level. ......................
I can't believe they were out that much over 755 feet. Simple geometry which they had plus a single master string could put it much closer than that. They had water levels, we know that, it just really surprises me at 5" someone didn't lose their head over it.
Then again, maybe they did after QC did the final inspection...
Years ago National Geographic had an article about hieroglyphics which mentioned wooden rollers being imported from Lebanon.
The limestone casing blocks were plundered by the muzzies to build medieval Cairo. Some of the original casing blocks remain on the upper fourth or so of Khafre, the number two pyramid at Giza. One of the moron caliphs decided to destroy the Giza pyramids, and had his workmen start with Menkaure (the smallest of the large ones); after six months, they had accomplished the damage still visible today, but it obviously going to take a really long time to tear down that one, and the other two are about an order of magnitude greater, each (from the wiki-wacky — 91,227,778 cf, 78,084,118 cf, 8,305,409 cf).
OMG and Oh, noes! If that’s just the spore think how big
the fully developed organism is going to be. Think, man, think!
We’re doomed!
The statues at Aswan were carved out of the living rock, not quarried somewhere else and moved there.
Cedar from Lebanon was used in Egypt, it’s known thanks to some of it having survived.
Acacia was used for statues and such, along with some other wood of trees that either still grow in Egypt, or used to in ancient times.
I'd never heard the Romans snagged a pyramid. They did nab a bunch of obelisks, I believe more Egyptian obelisks stand in Rome today (thanks to the Empire's shipping) than stand in Egypt. There's a 350 ton one that was moved by ship for Caligula; the ship was such a spectacle, it was kept around for years just as a tourist attraction. His successor Claudius had the ship sunk nose down into the water for use as a form to pour the concrete mole they used to 'anchor' the end of the pier when he built the all-season harbor. Kids out there who want a subject for their dissertation, or a research project to suck down some grants, could do worse than to study that ship -- either it is still there, partially preserved, or an exact negative impression of the *interior* still exists, underground, in concrete.
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