Hans Wrote:
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> But didn't the recent remeasuring of Giza by Dash
> point to Petrie being wrong on a number of
> measurements?

Not really. I wrote to Dash before he died to get his best estimates of pyramid base heights above sea level (which caused me to abandon Butler's 'sea level' hypothesis). Dash indeed found some very small discrepancies in the sides of Khufu base (see various articles in AERAGRAM and on his own site). In addition he admitted the GPMP map was inaccurate (a development discussed on this board some years ago) and, in the absence of a new survey, accepted Petrie's original figures for the positions of the pyramids and the dimensions of Menkaure. So Petrie remains the definitive authority on Giza measures until they are superseded by a new authoritative survey. None has yet appeared.