Page 329 - Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

hard to imagine more systematic and mathematically minded people.
I’d had quite enough of their mathematical games for one day. As I left
the King’s Chamber, however, I could not forget that it was located in line
with the 50th course of the Great Pyramid’s masonry at a height of
almost 150 feet above the ground. This meant, as Flinders Petrie
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pointed out with some astonishment, that the builders had managed to
place it ‘at the level where the vertical section of the Pyramid was halved,
where the area of the horizontal section was half that of the base, where
the diagonal from corner to corner was equal to the length of the base,
and where the width of the face was equal to half the diagonal of the
base’.
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Confidently and efficiently fooling around with more than six million
tons of stone, creating galleries and chambers and shafts and corridors
more or less at will, achieving near-perfect symmetry, near-perfect right
angles, and near-perfect alignments to the cardinal points, the mysterious
builders of the Great Pyramid had found the time to play a great many
other tricks as well with the dimensions of the vast monument.
Why did their minds work this way? What had they been trying to say or
do? And why, so many thousands of years after it was built, did the
monument still exert a magnetic influence upon so many people, from so
many different walks of life, who came into contact with it?
There was a Sphinx in the neighbourhood, so I decided that I would put
these riddles to It ...

The Great Pyramid: Your Personal Guide, p. 64.
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32 The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh, p. 93.

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