Page 553 - Atlas of Creation Volume 2

Harun Yahya

STRIKING FACTS ABOUT THE GIZA PYRAMIDS

Some of the research onto the pyramids at Giza has shown that the Ancient Egyptians possessed a
highly developed knowledge of mathematics and geometry. In addition to their knowledge of math-
ematics and geometry, the people who planned the pyramids must also have known the measure-
ments of the Earth, its circumference, and the angle of tilt of its axis. This information about the
pyramids, whose construction began around 2,500 BCE, is even more striking when one considers
that they were built some 2,000 years before the great Greek mathematicians Pythagoras, Archimedes
and Euclid:

- The angles of the Great Pyramid divide the Nile delta region into two equal halves.

- The three pyramids of Giza have been arranged so as to form a Pythagorean triangle, whose sides
have the proportions 3:4:5.

- The proportion between the height of the pyramid and its circumference is equal to that between the
radius of a circle and its circumference.

- The Great Pyramid is a giant sundial. The shadows it casts between mid-October and the beginning
of March reflect the seasons and the length of the year. The length of the stone slabs around the pyra-
mid is equivalent to the length of one day's shadow.

- The normal length of the square base of the pyramid is equal to 365.342 Egyptian yards (a unit of
measurement of the time). This is very close to the number of days in a solar year (which has been cal-

culated at 365.224 days).

- The distance between the Great Pyramid and the center of the Earth is equivalent to that between

the pyramid and the North Pole.

- In the pyramid,

the perimeter of
the base divided
by twice its height
is the number Pi.

The total surface
area of the pyra-
mid's four sides is
equal to the square
of its height. 56

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