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Ancient Builders Ancient Builders world. The point is almost exactly on latitude 30 of the reign of Christ, should have begun in Continued from Page 21 degrees N and close to longitude 31 degrees E; 1979. [] the two lines that cross more dry land than any others. The search for an answer Of all the pyramids, the Great Pyramid Some authorities suggest that the monuments is the only one to have a network of are connected with ancient humanity’s deep- passageways built high into its structure. This rooted interest in the stars and the planets, that has been taken to suggest that it may have been they are astronomical observatories built to more than just a burial chamber and monument. calculate the seasonal movements of the sun and One 19th century astronomer, Richard Proctor, the moon. Other researchers performing claimed that the structure had originally been complex calculations based on the dimensions built as an observatory or viewing platform, of these elaborate structures, have concluded being completed as a pyramid later on. He that they are coded messages in stone, recording explained the presence of the passages as being mathematical and astrological knowledge for both part of the observatory apparatus and the posterity. Yet others claim that the sacred sites system used to align the pyramid. are powerhouses of mystery forces, that they Proctor’s calculations were mark the chakras, or energy points, of the astonishingly convoluted. He claimed that the planet, on a global grid system only the ancient entrance passage aligned on the star Alpha peoples were sensitive enough to perceive. Draconis, which at 3 degrees 42’ away, was very close to the celestial pole (the point in the sky The Great Pyramid around which all the stars appear to revolve) in No single building has provoked as much 3440 B.C. and again in 2160 B.C. By aligning speculation or wild fantasy as the Great the building around this passage, and reflecting Pyramid at Giza. The term “pyramidiocy” has the starlight up into a further passage above the even been coined to refer to this outpouring of first, the builders were able to ensure the correct unlikely theories. Yet there is no question that orientation of the pyramid. The Gods That Walked - The ancient stone the Great Pyramid truly is one of the world’s statues that litter the barren, rocky landscape of most remarkable and mysterious structures. Microcosm of world history Easter Island, in the South Pacific, pose an The largest and most important of the Many other authorities have tried to explain unsolved problem. They stand between 12 and pyramids of Egypt, its construction was a why the ancient Egyptians went to so much 15 feet high and the largest of them weighs 80 considerable feat of engineering. Built the reign trouble in building the pyramids. One approach tones. They were carved from rock from the of the pharaoh Khufu (also known as Cheops) holds that the dimensions of the pyramid are a dormant crater of a volcano, and we know that around 2500 B.C., it si made of about 2.5 mathematical code, expressing the hidden some were moved up to 10 miles away from million sandstone blocks, each weighing about knowledge of the ancient Egyptians. The fact their present position. But how? 2.5 tons. Even at 450 feet high, it is not as that the dilapidation of the structure makes it impressive today as when it was first built, since difficult to come up with exact figures for the Manpower - In 1956 the explorer and the top has eroded away, and the smooth height and length of the sides of the pyramid archeologist Thor Heyerdahl tested a theory that limestone that once faced the steps have long only fuels the fires of speculation. the great statues were moved using ropes and ago been removed. Perhaps the strangest of all pyramid muscle power. Even using modern ropes, which Many of the interesting features of the theories was proposed by Adam Rutherford, are stronger than vine ropes, Heyerdahl’s team pyramid have led to sweeping claims about the president of the British Institute of was able to move a statue only 100 yards, not 10 knowledge of the ancient Egyptians. Fir Pyramidology. He claimed that the layout of the miles. Even so, the head was damaged in the instance, the site of the building is said to reveal Great Pyramid was a microcosm of world process. Nor could the statues have been rolled an extraordinary grasp of geography in a culture history, past and future, with certain points in along on tree trunks, as were the stones that that, according to accepted history, is not even the structure referring to specific important formed the Great Pyramid. Trees big enough to supposed to have known that the earth was dates. By analyzing the pyramid he calculated bear the weight simply cannot grow on the round. The pyramid, it is claimed, was that the “millennium,” the final thousand years island’s poor soil. [] deliberately placed in the center of the inhabited