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A Youtube video presenting the seldom discussed evidence that Giza is a cemetery for Khufu's family -
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
This appeared on Youtube -
Seems logical.
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
Well I suppose you are right. But I have examined Giza stonework in situ (for example in Khufu King's chamber and the jointing of pavements) but the joints inside the Bent blew me away (assuming the pictures are not fake). And the ability to achieve such near perfection in buildings separated by just a few years (like the step pyramid) seems inexplicable. I'll crawl back under my rock.
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
Yes. I checked out his other videos which do seem to be fringe. But what caught my eye were the exquisite Bent pyramid joints, shown after the 5.57 mark.
The building of a single pyramid supposedly only took 10 to 30 years according to modern estimates yet a common conceit is that, given sufficient time and patience, the Egyptians could have achieved such results using their non-sophisticated me
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Hermione,
I just want to know if this 'bright insight' chap is fake. Have you come across him before? If he is fake I'll avoid him in future. But if he is correct about the wall joints inside the Bent pyramid being so incredibly thin then this would be important to discuss on this forum. Please tell me what you know.
Yours, Robin
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
Recently I came across a Youtube channel called 'Bright Insight'. It seemed to be devoted to fringe subjects like Atlantis. But one video stood out from the others, dealing with Egyptian stone cutting -
I'm sure many contributors on this board will have seen this video (on a subject central to the aims of The Hall of Maat) and I should like to hear your opinions. Particularl
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
John Legon's recent paper on the Red pyramid (which he terms 'the blunt' pyramid) is well worth reading -
- hardly 'alternative' mathematics one would think?
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robin cook
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Dear Alex,
Great to hear from you again.
I've had a lot of trouble recently, medical problems as well as computer problems. (The wretched Bill Gates has been playing about again - where are we now? win11 or win12? win 7 was very stable but now I am required to pay out for new software.) Also the world has gone mad - the world seems ruled by the smartphone and endless propaganda. This
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Hermione,
Of course you are exactly correct - pyramids were king's tombs - I assumed that as a given. But they were rather more than that weren't they?
Pyramids were built for kings, but not by them. There is no reason to assume that the elites were privy to special knowledge, even if they considered themselves as gods. They took the roles assigned to them by the intelligentsia
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robin cook
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Byrd Wrote:
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> Building something based on mathematics makes
> little sense.
To you perhaps.
> Building it on engineering and the amount of
> effort/work to haul and place stone along with
> structural stability makes more sense.
Sure, they put a lot of effort into trying to make sure the pile of stones didn'
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robin cook
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
In contrast to the near universal view that each pharaoh designed his own pyramid (for example Rossi in her book - Rossi, C. 2003. ‘Architecture and Mathematics in Ancient Egypt’. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, states '“When Khafra started his pyramid at Giza, his aim must have been to maintain the level of Khufu’s pyramid and, at the same time, to spare material and to improve the i
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robin cook
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
I put up a website called the-horizon-of-khufu.com. Much of the site is rather technical but in the first part ('Giza pyramids introduction') I attempted to give a summary of the site and a description of the major features. This part was hastily written and probably contains errors. I would greatly appreciate any feedback to help me to correct such errors or to add any other importan
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> > I am very disappointed that you have chosen to
> > include me with the loonies.
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> Can I remind all posters that the HoM R&G frown on
> pejorative descriptions of other authors and
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robin cook
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
We have no idea what went on with Khufu and his mates. I prefer to deal with facts - someone decided to correlate chambers and pyramid 'interspacings' and we don't know who it was. More importantly, these facts support the proposition for an overall plan. What other explanation occurs to you?
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robin cook
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Hermione Wrote:
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> QuoteGiza chamber dimensions
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> (You mean the dimensions of the chambers in the
> Great Pyramid?)
- No. I mean the chambers in all three pyramids, with the exception of Khufu's subterranean chamber. If you
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robin cook
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Dear Byrd,
Thank you for replying.
The 'Hall of Maat' is supposedly devoted to 'weighing the evidence for alternative history'. You decided to set up a separate section called ' Alternative Geometry and Numerology', but alternative to what? Due to the lack of any text from the Old Kingdom which would provide clues to the meaning of the Giza group we must turn
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robin cook
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
When Butler entered the scene two decades ago his proposal for a cubit shorter than Petrie's appeared to be backed up by the correspondence between chamber sizes and pyramid layout (at the same time producing the same fibonacci terms as found in Khufu). But this scheme is discrepant wrt to Petrie's. Does this mean the builders 'fudged' things in order to fit these differen
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robin cook
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Alternative Geometry and Numerology
Hi Kanga
You wrote in your previous post - "There is a clear whole palm thickness to courses 102 (9p), 103 (10p) and 104 (9p). As I have already stated, the top of course 101 has elevation 150 cubits. This is the third in the series of elevations that are multiples of 50 cubits. The top of course 36 is 50 cubits, the top of course 64 is 100 cubits and the top of course 101 is 150 cubits.
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
Kanga Wrote -
>Gantenbrink only measured
> the slopes of the shafts near the exit points. He
> did not survey the elevations of these points. The
> so-called "Gantenbrink's surveyed shafts" were
> reconstructions based on his theoretical model for
> the shafts based on whole palm sekeds.
I don't know what Gantenbrink actually measured but his theor
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
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
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
There should be no need to mount an expedition. Petrie surveyed Giza and published his results, which have been accepted by the Egyptological community. Gantenbrink said that he made his own survey of the pyramid which placed his shaft exit points at a higher level, but as far as I know he has not published his survey results in any academic form. Until this data aberration is resolved further s
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
This is a continuation of a previous discussion of the subject - as requested.
Hans wrote -"I suggest we start with where we currently stand with understanding the physical aspects; size, length, direction and internal attributes of the various shafts." Absolutely correct. So first we need accurate and approved survey information before drawing conclusions. But we cannot proceed f
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> robin cook Wrote:
> > > > came up with a pyramid shape for
> his
> > > > ark by battening together statements in the
> > Old
> > > > Testament in a rather awkward way.
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> > > I don't think "awkward battening" is an
> > a
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
Hermione Wrote:
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> > ark by battening together statements in the Old
> > Testament in a rather awkward way.
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> I don't think "awkward battening" is an accurate
> des
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Hermione,
There are of course flood myths from all over the world - hardly surprising as we emerged from the most recent glacial cycle. Stephen Oppenheimer put forward the astonishing argument that 'Sundaland'in southeast Asia, rather than in Mesopotamia where it is usually placed, was the lost civilisation that fertilised the great cultures of the Middle East 6 thousand years ago.
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
Thanks for the link.
In the bible, the first 'ark' (a boat) is described as box-shaped - measuring 300X30X20 cubits. The second 'ark' is described as a much smaller box - measuring 2.5X1.5X1.5 cubits. This was used to carry around sacred relics (but also served as a very unreliable weapon). It would seem the basis of the Noah myth came from Mesopotamia, but the 'Babylon
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robin cook
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Ancient Egypt
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