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egypt the eternal mystery: an interview with wmf speaker dr.hans jelitto

The Secret Numerical World of the Pyramids

Patrick Grete
Physicist Dr. Hans Jelitto, formerly of the Karlsruhe Research Center and now with the Hamburg
University of Technology, hopes to unlock the secrets of the pyramids in Giza. In his book Pyr-
amiden und Planeten (Pyramids and Planets), he analyzes certain proportions of the lengths, vol-
umes, and positions of the three pyramids relative to one another and proposes a model that draws
a correlation between those proportions and the planets Mercury, Venus, and Earth. In his lecture at
the 2006 World Mystery Forum in Interlaken, he highlighted new discoveries regarding the ancient
Egyptians’ stone processing techniques and discussed the numerology of the pyramids. Patrick Grete
met with Dr. Jelitto for an interview.
LT: Dr. Jelitto, you’re actually a physicist. How did you get interested in pyramids?
Jelitto: “It was purely by chance. I have always been interested in ‘mystical’ matters, which is something my former co-
workers at the Karlsruhe Research Center were aware of. So when I left , they gave me a book called Mystische Stätten
(Mystical Sites) as a going-away present, which contained a chapter on the Great Pyramid of Giza. It included some in-
teresting number games regarding the pyramid, the number pi, and the golden ratio. But none of it made much sense
to me, so I started to think about it.”
LT: Where exactly did you start?
Jelitto: “With the shape of the Great Pyramid. Th e book suggested that the ancient Egyptians had en-crypted the
number pi in the Great Pyramid. And the ratio of two times the pyramid’s base—two times 230.37 meters—to its
height—146.6 meters—is exactly equal to pi. Together with the golden ratio, we have mathematical redundancy be-
cause only one of the numbers is needed to determine the shape of the pyramid. Th e theoretical gradients of the sides
calculated using these fi gures are essentially identical, except for minor deviations of up to 2 arc minutes. Th at didn’t
seem very logical.
Th at’s when I began to wonder whether the minor deviations in the shape of the pyramid might not have been a coin-
cidence and the Great Pyramid was built asymmetrically on purpose. Th is asymmetry would eff ectively allow multiple
numbers to be incorporated into the pyramid at the same time, which is how I ultimately arrived at the correlation
between the pyramid’s proportions and astronomy.”
LT: You wrote a book about this a few years ago ...
Jelitto: “Yes. Back then I came across a correlation that initially didn’t appear to make much sense. So I looked into
these inconsistencies and put forward a solution in my book Pyramiden und Planeten (Pyramids and Planets). My
assertions are essentially hypotheses. Th e main theories are: 1. Th e Great Pyramid was intentionally not built as an
exact square. Th e base lengths are off by 20 cen-timeters. I can’t believe the architects capable of creating such struc-
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