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  1. Ancient History Index
  2. How to cut stone
  3. How to - as told by Rekmara
  4. How to lift a monolith
  5. How to measure and mark out true North
  6. How to move and lift stone
  7. How many people needed to build pyramid?
  8. A possible origin for the pyramid
  9. Coral Castle - a modern example
  10. Serious Anomalies
  11. Unexplained flying vehicles
  12. Ancient writings
  13. The ice age ends - wrong time, wrong place
  14. Terraforming Mars
  15. Secret Science, Hidden History
  16. Introduction
  17. A secret human history
  18. Ending the ice age - overturn
  21. Anomalies 15000 BP to 5000BP Conference/ Discussion board

 

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Setting Out: Building Pyramids

Many claims are made for the 'unusual accuracy' of the construction of the great pyramid.

Many of those who make the claims seem to ignore simple maths and surveying techniques.

Flat leather measuring tape is fairly inelastic, and can be used to draw a circle with a radius of the corners of the pyramid. You can measure distances extremely accurately with a long pole with a sharp pin fixed at right angles at each end, to confirm the important corners of the pyramid.

The obvious way to find true North South is to use the shadow of the sun from a tall pole. I tried this and it doesn't work. The tip of the shadow is too fuzzy because the sun is not a point, and you get slightly different shadows from each side of the sun.

The trick is to use a star at night. Select a star low enough in the sky so that its shadow( if it cast one) crosses your circle that encloses the base a couple of hours each side of its highest point. Now a star wont cast a shadow, but if you place a mirror (shallow bowl of mercury or water) flat on the ground, you can easily sight the star against the sharp top point of the center pole, and mark the ground as its shadow moves.

You should be able to mark the point of the shadow to an accuracy of 1mm. These marks will trace a parabola on the ground that will cut the outer circle.

Draw a straight line that joins these two points. This line runs true east west.

From each of these two points use the long measuring rod to draw two more circles that overlap. These new circles cross each other exactly on the north south line, accurate to within a few milimetres.

Once you have marked out the corners of the pyramid, you can confirm that these are exact by sighting another, lower star that gives a parabola that crosses the exact point of the corner on the circle. The NW and NE corners should be exact. Any discrepancy is probably due to movement from earthquakes.

This information is copyright Peter Thomson 2001-2004

 ancients measurepyramid  Posted by (message id=4157 )
I would imagine that the real trick to this is looking at the star from the same height, in other words if you are kneeling for one measurement and standing in the next the angles will not be the same and the whole thing will be off.

so a mirror or bowl on a stick would provide the best evidence for this method being used. An item like this would allow the user to stand straight up while doing the measurement

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