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Hi Hermoine,
Thanks for linking my thread above, but it is really just talking about the Akhentaten boundary stelae, where the proposed length of the itr has been based on the distance between the farthest apart known boundary stelae, and even since my thread from 2003, additional boundary stelae have been discovered at Akhentaten that are farther away from each other.
More recently I spent
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
I like that last diagram. Another diagonal segment going up from 154 cubits above the south edge of the pyramid with the same slope of 7 rise on 11 run intersects the height of the top of the pyramid at the vertical line of the convergent point.
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Robin,
I am still wondering about 'when were the Hyksos'
Petrie published a book called Historical Studies in 1911, and on pp 8-22 he makes what I think is a good argument for his long chronology. It is available online here:
I have a copy of Wisdom of the Egyptians (Petrie - 1940), where he gives 4300 BC for the start of the 1st dynasty.
One of the things that he do
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
I added a table of contents to my article and a section about some of the proportions of the great pyramid, that is shorter and hopefully clearer than some of my earlier articles; a section updating my old article about the global alignment of ancient sites; a section about ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman metrology; a section about the possible cartographic implications of the heb-sed court; an
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
Here is the link to an article I recently finished and posted:
Here are a few excerpts and comments:
The title of the article is: The Measure of the Remen and the Royal Cubit and the Meridian of Egypt and the Earth
‘The area of one square royal cubit is double the area of one square remen. The linear measure of one royal cubit is equal to the linear measure of the remen times the squ
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Robin,
Thanks for the kind words and thanks for the diagram. The connections with the circle on the height and the square inscribed on the circle and the square on the base are very nice and they do dovetail nicely with the phi proportions of the passages. Given 55 RC below ground level for the end of the DP, your diagram gives 560 run over 275 rise from side to side of the large square f
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Robin,
In a couple of threads a while back Graham Chase suggested that the correct alignment of Orion with Giza around 2500 bc was when Orion was rising - east of due south - rather than directly overhead. Here was one of them:
I posted a diagram about his idea that is not coming through on the old thread any more so here is a test of my image posting: Image post failed so here is t
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
The February 2010 issue of Smithsonian has a long article about the sphinx, based mostly on observations and findings of Mark Lehner. I thought the most interesting part of the article was the followsing:
"The Sahara has not always been a wilderness of sand dunes. German climatologists Rudolph Kuper and Stefan Kröpelin, analyzing the radiocarbon dates of archaeological sites, recently c
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
Below is the cover of the 1975 edition of Fagan's book. On the cover is a copy of a watercolor illustration of Abu Simbel from Giovanni Belzoni. From this illustration, it looks like the temple close to the water on the right is cut into the chest of a big sphinx:
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
The height of the KC in G1 is 11.18 cubits (sq. rt. 5 x 5)
The volume of the KC is 2236 cubic cubits (11.18 x 20 x 10)
The total volume of G1 is very nearly if not exactly 18 million cubic cubits.
With a baselength of 440 cubits and a height of 280 cubits the volume is 18,069,333 cubic cubits.
If the height was intended to be sq rt 5 x 5 cubed (2.236 x 5 x 5 x 5 = 279.51) then a basel
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Jim Alison
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Hi Jon,
On page 65, Petrie gives the horizontal distance from the north base of the pyramid to the end of the ascending passage/north doorway of the grand gallery as 2907.3 inches.
On page 66, Petrie gives the horizontal distance from the north doorway of the grand gallery to the north wall of the queen's chamber at the side of the door as 1524.8 inches.
2907.3 plus 1524.8 = 4432.1
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Jim Alison
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
The ceiling of the antechamber in the great pyramid is approximately 65 inches wide and the floor is approximately 41 inches wide. The diagram by Smyth suggests that the width of the wainscots are the same (approximately 12 inches each), but he does not give the actual measures of the widths of the wainscots in his book that I have. Petrie also does not give the respective widths of the wainsco
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
For those who do not prefer converting to AE cubits, here is the calculation in inches:
Petrie's measures:
Inside length: 78.06 inches
Inside width: 26.81 inches
Inside height: 34.42 inches
78.06 x 26.81 = 2092.7886 (area of inside base of coffer in square inches)
2092.7886 divided by pi = 666.1553
The square root of 666.1553 is 25.8099 inches (radius of a circle with an
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Jim Alison
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Petrie gives the following measures for the coffer:
Outside length: 89.62 inches
Outside width: 38.5 inches
Outside height: 41.31 inches
Inside length: 78.06 inches
Inside width: 26.81 inches
Inside height: 34.42 inches
These measures convert to AE cubits as follows:
Outside length: 4.345 cubits
Outside width: 1.867 cubits
Outside height: 2 cubits
Inside length: 3.786 cubits
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Jim Alison
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Hi Clive and Don,
As I have mentioned previously, the length of the KC passage from the south wall of the grand gallery to the north wall of the KC is 365.25 digits, the same as the number of days in a year.
The floor of the passage from the KC to the south wall of the grand gallery has three granite blocks and one limestone block. This (second) limestone block begins at the south wall of t
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Jim Alison
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
There is a typo in the following statement that you made in your post to Tim:
"The right-angle formula stipulates the square of the two sides equaling the square of the hypotenuse, and we know the hypotenuse/base ratio is 1.618, therefore the ratio of these squares would be (1.618x1.618)/(1x1) = 2.164:1.
Returning to the joints...
330.9/2.164 = 126.6”...the distance to the first join
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Jim Alison
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Hi Don,
I posted a webpage about the 6/pi = meter/cubit relationship a while back. There was some discussion of this between DaveL and Me on the GHMB about it a few years ago. Here is the URL for my webpage about it:
Also, since 5 pi = 6 phi squared, the ratio between the cubit and the meter is also
5/phi squared = meter/cubit
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Jim Alison
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
In addition to the Egyptian Heliopolis, The Romans called another site Heliopolis, located in Baalbek, Lebanon. Interestingly, Baalbek/Heliopolis is also located at an azimuth of 45 degrees from Giza. Here is a google map image of the Great Pyramid with a path drawn from the apex of the pyramid to the temple at Baalbek:
Here is a google image of Baalbek:
Baalbek is approximately 4
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Rob,
Check out the sq rt 2 diagram on this webpage from a few years ago:
See also the link to Stecchini at the bottom of the page. He talked about this many years ago.
Jim
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
RMP problem #38 is a volume problem. It gives two containers with a volume ratio of 1:1/pi or pi:1. Given a cylinder with a radius of 1 and a height of 1 and a cube with sidelengths of 1, the volume ratio between the cylinder and the cube is pi:1.
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Jim Alison
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
The perpendicular height of the ascending and descending passages is 2 cubits and 2 palms and the width is 2 palms. The height of the queen's chamber passage is also 2 cubits and 2 palms and the width is also 2 palms. The perimeters of these passages is 8 cubits and four palms. The perimeter minus the height of the passage is 6 cubits and 2 palms. Since 2 palms is 2/7 of a cubit, the per
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Jim Alison
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Hi Graham,
Interesting about the division of the Kochab-Mizar line by the pole. Thanks for suggestion about the 9/11 ratio of the division of the baselength at ground level by the point of intersection of the kc shafts. When I modified my diagram to include this, I also noticed that the northern shaft cuts ground level 121 cubits south of the intersection point of the shafts and 77 cubits nort
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
Thanks Ogygos,
Much appreciated. Supposedly the Cybersky demo program took proper motion and all of the other variables into account, but I guess I will reconsider the $32.00 purchase price. The 39.282 deg angle you got is almost exactly the same as the 39.29 deg angle for a slope of 9/11, and that is what I think was the intended mean angle anyway, as explained on the webpage I linked above.
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Dave,
The software I used two or three years ago was a demo version of skymap 6. I went back recently and checked the altitudes of Sirius and Kochab on several different dates and could see that some of the readings were just not right. The new software that I used was a free demo version of Cybersky and it seems to work very well. This is actually not a very expensive program to buy and
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
A couple of years ago I suggested that if the queen's chamber shafts were intended to target Sirius and Kochab, and if the shafts were symmetrical, then dating would not require reliance on exact survey data or reliance on the AEs to have been able be to construct the shafts with exactly the desired angle. All that needs to be done is to look and see when Sirius and Kochab were at the same
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Jim Alison
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Jiri,
Good to see you posting here. Robin Cook's website is here:
follow the links and you will find several of his siteplan pages.
You should also take a look at one of Chris Tedder's webpages here:
You credit the source of the ideas in your diagram #3 to Cook. This is probably because the attributions on my webpage are insufficiently clear. Point a) that you
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Jim Alison
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
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