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Hi Ahatmose,
At the intersection of your two blue lines (in the first link), and using the green line of 440 rc as the radius, does an arc/circle pass through any structural points of interest of G3?
Also, where your red 30° begins, do you have any idea what the the internal angle of the corner of the temenos walls may be?
By the way, a happy festive season and New Year to all readers!
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Chiginn
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Ancient Egypt
A prospective article which hints at the potential for further discoveries within the Great Pyramid:
Biondi & Malanga (?2022?), SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR DOPPLER TOMOGRAPHY REVEALS DETAILS OF UNDISCOVERED HIGH-RESOLUTION
INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA.
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Chiginn
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Kanga
The article (in German) starts on p. 285:
If you can post an English translation that would be very much appreciated.
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Chiginn
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Ancient Egypt
It seems that the initial design of the King’s chamber was to represent the base of G1 in its North and South walls and the axial height dimensions of G1 in the floor and ceiling.
There is a reversal (or perhaps chiraling) of the geometric planes in that the horizontalness of the base is represented vertically (and meridionally) in the King’s chamber and the verticalness of the body of the pyra
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Chiginn
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Ancient Egypt
When Petrie states that Gill’s side length average for the base of the Great Pyramid is longer by 1/4500, can you please explain further what he means?
Because it could imply several things:
— 9068.8” + (9068.8/4500) = 9070.815” (which seems to large given that he specified the excess 2+ inches in the RE survey);
— 9068.8” + 1/4500 = 9068.800222 (which doesn’t really make sense if he i
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Chiginn
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Ancient Egypt
Thank you, Hermione.
So it appears that they were never published aside from Petrie’s basic commentary on Gill’s results that his side length average for the base of the Great Pyramid was longer by 1/4500.
Gill’s claim on page 77 that he also measured the height to ±1mm is enticing — it’s a shame that they were never published.
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Chiginn
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Ancient Egypt
Were Gill’s survey results ever published?
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Chiginn
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Ancient Egypt
Kanga Wrote:
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> It has also been missed that the signs for the
> remen and the cubit are very similar. The remen is
> 5 palms. The sign for the cubit is the forearm
> plus a part of the upper arm pointing straight up
> (perhaps meaning "add on one palm to make 7
> palms"), while the sign for the remen is the
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Chiginn
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Ancient Egypt
There is mainstream acceptance for the length of the royal cubit being the distance between the point of the elbow to the tip of the outstretched middle finger.
However, in ‘Wisdom of the Egyptians’ (1940) Petrie writes:
“The name of the cubit, meh, is also that of a binding, or girdle, or diadem; as it is just the length of a head-band for a smallish head (size 6 5/8), and it cannot agr
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Chiginn
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Ancient Egypt
Petrie makes the following statement in ‘Wisdom of the Egyptians’ (1940), p. 71:
“The result of this system was that the royal cubit was 28·28 digits, commonly reckoned as 28 digits, and on one cubit rod the digit value is exactly retained, and the last digit lengthened, to make up 1·28 with the fraction.”
Can someone please enlighten me as to which cubit rod it is that Petrie is referri
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Chiginn
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Ancient Egypt
Thanks Hermione. (I did consider placing the topic in this subboard but I thought for sure it would get moved…D’oh!).
That calculator is a Godsend.
As it turns out, there are several alternative renderings, three of which are:
— 1/4 + 1/50 + 1/100;
— 1/5 + 1/25 + 1/30 + 1/150 (all denominators are multiples of 5); and,
— 1/4 + 1/44 + 1/198 + 1/450.
Your time and help is g
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Chiginn
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Ancient Egypt
The fraction of 7/25 (or 0.28) represented as an Egyptian fraction is:
7/25 = 1/4 + 1/34 + 1/1700
Are there multiple ways to represent 7/25 as an Egyptian fraction, or is this the only configuration?
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Chiginn
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Ancient Egypt