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molder Wrote:
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> Encyclopedia Britannica gives us 3 examples of
> different lengths for the foot found at a well
> known and quite famous Greek site.
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> OLYMPIA
>
> First the Stadium 600 Greek feet a foot = to 1.05
> imperial feet 12.6 inches the Olympic foot
>
> Second The temple of Hera which they give in
> metres 0.297m 11.696 inches
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> Third The temple of Zeus a foot = 1.08 imp feet
> 12.96 inches, The Attic foot.
Okay...but those are from an entirely different civilization than ancient Egypt, and from 2400 years after the Giza pyramids. What we are asking about is measurements used by the Egyptians at the time of Khufu's reign
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> This last is of interest as it can be connected to
> the Great Pyramid.
>
> The Greek historian Diodorus Siculus travelled to
> Egypt during the 1st century B. C.. and while
> there measured the pyramid base.
>
> Many people today use 756 imperial feet for a base
> of the Great pyramid. Diodorus tells us he
> measured 7 plethra or 700 Greek feet and a nice
> even number.
>
> If Diodorus used the Attic foot of 12.96 inches or
> 1.08 imperial feet then then it converts to 756
> imp feet the very same measure many use today.
We could measure it in rods or in meters or centimeters or even wavelengths of orange light... but that doesn't mean the Egyptians knew about it or that they set up something so that an unknown measurement was going to be significant in some way. That's why we ask what measure the Egyptians themselves used during the time of Khufu.
Whatcha got that's Egyptian (not some other civilization) and from the time of Khufu/
-- Byrd
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