Dave L Wrote:
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> Yes, Petrie was right.

About the flat earthers.

> The circle square relationship is seen in
> monumental architecture right through history.

Is it ? I hadn't noticed, it certainly ain't in Egypt !

> The
> basic idea is that the circle represented the
> heavens,

They saw the heavens as circular ? Surely shome mishtake....

> the square represented man on earth, and
> his control of the earth.

Crap.

> This is an absolutely
> fundemental concept of the Neolithic Revolution,
> where architecture moved from circular to square
> building - it was an ideological shift as well as
> a functional one.

Rubbish. You're making this up as you go along....

> So uniting these two symbols was seen as
> creating a place where heaven and earth could
> meet, obviously important if you want your dead
> pharaoh to ascend into the heavens.

Crap.

> This is seen
> in early christian churches such as at Hagia
> Sophia, and in Mosques, and in many modern
> buildings as well.

Is it ?

> As for the Red, there are so many different survey
> results quoted that its impossible to be certain
> of anything:
>
> Dave L
>
> 43*36' I. E. S. Edwards, The Pyramids of Egypt,
> Penguin, 1979.

Who never surveyed a pyramid in his life.

> 43*22' Mark Lehner The Complete Pyramids. WW
> Norton and Co Inc, 1997

Who never surveyed Dahshur.

> 43*40'. Leslie Grinsell John Bellows. Egyptian
> Pyramids 1947.

Who also never surveyed a pyramid in his life.

> 43*36'-11" George Johnson The Red Pyramid of
> Snefru: Inside and Out, KMT, V8, No3, 1997.

Who also never surveyed a pyramid in his life.

> 44*44' Dorner, Josef: Neue Messungen an der
> Roten Pyramide. Stationen, 1998

Who surveyed it, and dug out the base.

> 44*36' W. M. Flinders Petrie, 1887.

Who didn't dig out the base.

> 45* Stadelmann (1998), Verner (2001) and Arnold
> (2003) all quote

Which is the most up to date result.

John - rubbing his hands at the thought of numerological blood on the carpet, again