In another thread, there was discussion about the use of CAD software to determine the exact positions of the Giza plateau features.

I have compiled a quick list of those who took or may have taken measurements of the Great Pyramid and the plateau. Would anyone care to review, revise, expand the list?


John Greaves, Pyramidographia: Or A Description of the Pyramids In Egypt 1638(?)

Tito Livio Burattini, ?, ?

Nathaniel Dividson, , 1765

Edme-Fracois Jamard, ?, 1798(?)

Napoleon Le Grand. Description De L'Egypte, ?

Gratien Le Pere & Colonel Coutelle, ? ?

Colonel Howard-Vyse, Operations Carried On At The Pyramids Of Gizeh In 1837

John Shae Perring, The Pyramids of Gizeh From Actual Survey and Measurement On The Spot, 1837(?)

C. Piazzi Smyth, Our Inheritance In The Great Pyramid, 1880

C. Piazzi Smyth, Life And Work At The Great Pyramid Of Jeezeh During The Months of January, February, March and April, A.D. 1865

Inglis and Aiton, ?, 1865

William Flinders Petrie, The Pyramids And Temples Of Gizeh, ?

Morton Edgar, The Great Pyramid - Its Scientific Features, 1914 (?)

Moses B. Cotsworth, ?, 1900(?)

Ludwig Borchardt, ?, 1925(?)

J. H. Cole, Determination Of The Exact Size And Orientation Of The Great Pyramid Of Giza, 1925

Vito Maragioglio & C. Rinaldi, L'Architetturra delle Piramidi Menfite Part IV, 1965

Joseph Dorner, Absteckung und astronomische Orientierung Ägyptischer Pyramiden, 1981

Gilles Dormion, ?, ? (Restricted to professional users. ?)

The Giza Plateau Mapping Project (Public access to be determined. ?)

J. P. Lauer ?


Thank you,

C. Wayne Taylor
Richmond, Virginia USA