MJ Thomas Wrote:
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> 3) Multiplication and division by 3 1/7 or 22/7
> were used extensively in the planning of Khufu's
> pyramid and its passages and chambers.
>
> 4) Khufu's architect chose Seked 5 1/2 for the
> Pyramid's slope because he was aware that the
> diameter-to-circumference ratio he knew as 3 1/7
> or 22/7 was inherent in it.

I would agree with one and two, but not three and four.

They didn't build anything else (or any other pyramids) with those constraints. When civilizations build to a formula (as the Greeks did with the Parthenon and other temples), then we see it adopted and carried forth in everything since then.

I would agree that they used a model of the pyramid and that they measured angles to get the thing just right. But this set of proportions only works with certain building materials and is an utter failure with others.

In engineering problems, the materials constrain the possibilities. If it had been possible to build completely out of granite, you may well have seen a more steeply sided pyramid similar to the ones built in Nubia by the pharaohs -- pyramids which very closely resemble the written symbol for "Pyramid."

> Now, I see this as consistent with the views
> expressed by Petrie, Edwards,Verner and no doubt
> other authorities on the Egyptian pyramids.

Remember that it was Petrie himself who called people who tried to find some sort of mathematical schema in pyramids, "Pyramidiots." I think he would be very scornful of this last bit of reasoning.