Sam Wrote:
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> I think you get it. An interesting topic is being
> investigated. You come out of nowhere and declare
> that there is nothing there-with no proof. Thus
> you must have some sort of arcane knowledge no one
> else is privy to-ala Carnac, etc.
Hello Sam,
There is precious little unequivocal evidence to su
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Sam Wrote:
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> MJ Thomas 2 Wrote:
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> > Somebody simply decided that royal palaces,
> > temples and the like should be measured in a
> unit
> > of length different to the one used for
> ordinary
> > houses, bakeries and so on, and came up with
> the
> > idea of simply adding 1 palm/4 di
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MJ Thomas 2 Wrote:
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> Sirfiroth Wrote:
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > Does anyone know why the cubit was divided
> into 7
> > and 28 subdivisions?
>
> I consider it more likely that a
> small/standard/short cubit of 6 palms/24 digits
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Sirfiroth Wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone know why the cubit was divided into 7
> and 28 subdivisions?
I consider it more likely that a small/standard/short cubit of 6 palms/24 digits was expanded by 1 palm/4 digits into 7 palms/28 digits.
Somebody simply decided that royal palaces, temples and the like should be mea
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> > > Keeping in mind that I have yet to read his
> latest
> > offering, the gist of some of Marriott’s new (?)
> > theories appear to be 1) the murder victims were
> > eviscerated not by ‘Jack’ but by medical staff at
> > a mortuary,
>
> Yeah, those disturbing photos of
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This Daily Express article is about the just published ‘Jack the Ripper: The Secret Police Files’ by Trevor Marriott.
My initial reaction to it was very much, ‘what a load of unmitigated codswallop’, then I delved into Marriott’s website - and discovered that though the bulk of his book is a rehash of various JtR theories that have bandied about for decades (including, rather ironically, I feel,
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Hermione Wrote:
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> > I am much more comfortable with the view that
> > there was a pyramid building industry that had
> > more than one pyramid being built at a time.
>
> The question is, though, would the AE hav
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Greg Reeder Wrote:
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> You need to see who was buried nearest to G1 and
> and G2 though some of it is added to at different
> times. IIRC the cemeteries represent
> >mostly< officials identified with each King
> around their respective pyramids.
Hello Greg,
Of course, Reisner and his two vol. 'A History o
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Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> Not unless every single thing we know is wrong.
> And that includes all the king lists, all the
> inscriptions, all the monuments, everything.
Sorry, Khazar-khum, but apart from the infamous Chamber of Construction cartouche (see my comment to Byrd) there is no clear evidence for the Great Pyramid (G1) be
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Byrd Wrote:
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> We have the kings' lists as well as the texts
> around the pyramids, so we're certain of who's the
> grandfather, father, and son of this set of kings.
> Egyptians started their tombs during their
> lifetimes, as soon as they were financially able
> so it's not a case of waiting til
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Re the Giza pyramids.
Is there any possibility at all that G2 could pre-date and not post-date G1?
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cladking Wrote:
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> One just wonders what's next.
Whatever your remarkably fertile imagination can next conjure up, I would imagine.
MJ
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Jammer Wrote:
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> MJ,
>
> And to support, they didn't use decimals.... AT
> ALL.
>
> Even a fraction 1/20th of a digit get's a little
> hairy imho... let alone 1/100,000th of one!
Hello Jammer,
IN my experience working with unit fractions is cumbersome and time consuming to say the least, and dif
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I can't help feeling that we have just moved into 'Think of a number, double it, take away...' territory.
Rigel-7 wrote, 'What if it was really intended to be 1882.87031",..
What on earth makes anybody think that the AEs planned and built the Pyramid with an accuracy to 1/100,000 of an inch?
What were they using to measure and cut the blocks?
An electron microscop
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Kanga Wrote:
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> Yes, you're right. My bad.
>
> The height of the first course above the floor
> level is 2c 1p, which is one digit above the
> reputed level of the top of the shafts.
>
> We still have a discrepancy of one digit.
Hello Kanga and Mark,
The following data is from Vol. 2 of Piazzi Smyth
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Byrd Wrote:
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> It is my
> own personal suspicion that they found puppies
> easier to strangle than a full grown cat.
And I'm sure that any person who has ever tried to administer a tablet to a cat by mouth will agree with you.
MJ
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Ah well, I suppose somebody has to be the proverbial wet blanket here...
You have not solved anything, Regal-7.
You have presented an interesting but only partial hypothesis (not a theory) on how the presumed intended heights of G2 and G3 could have been derived from the presumed intended height of G1 using basic geometry.
AFAIAA, you have not explained why the presumed intended height of
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Hello all,
Just a brief note to say thank you to you all for the thought-provoking responses to my question.
I'm pleased to say that for me the fog has lifted slightly.
Regards to all,
MJ
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Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> Right or wrong I would be very interested to read
> your solution.
>
> If I or others can't prove it wrong then it may be
> right.
>
> As and when you put your theory on the web, in
> full, then I hope to discuss it here.
Hello Mark,
The end product will be a PDF file (3.5MB
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Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> Interesting perspective, but two objections spring
> to mind:
>
> Firstly, why start the passage at a downward
> slope, only to go back up again? If we imagine the
> pyramid without the 'extension' of the Entrance
> Passage it would have been very peculiar indeed.
Hello Mark,
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Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> Anyone can convert Petrie and say a dimension is,
> for example, 28.7891.. royal cubits, and by
> working out Petrie in this way all you do is prove
> that Petrie's surveying was correct.
Hello Mark,
I quite agree.
However, what I have done is explain in detailed and very boring step-by-step
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Mark Heaton Wrote:
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> Petrie's length of the Ascending Passage was a
> projection onto the sloping floor of the Entrance
> Passage, which was surely not in the mind of the
> architect, but was a method of surveying the
> structure as a continuous line from the outside of
> the pyramid.
Hello Mark,
I disag
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Sirfiroth Wrote:
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> Hi MJ,
>
> Just out of curorisity did you find any references
> in G1 to A = (8/9d)^2 as shown in problem #50 RMP
> and other problems in the Papyri?
No.
MJ
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MJ Thomas 2 Wrote:
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> > > So, are you rejecting Legon's model?
> What's
> > your
> > > alter
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MJ Thomas 2 Wrote:
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> > So, are you rejecting Legon's model? What's
> your
> > alternative?
>
> Please can you be more specific?
Hello Kanga,
I've just noticed that you dealt with this question earlier in
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Kanga Wrote:
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> So, are you rejecting Legon's model? What's your
> alternative?
Please can you be more specific?
Legon has a lot of ideas, but I can't bring to mind his view - if he has one - on the rounding up or down of measurements to a whole number of royal cubits (as happens with the Ascending Passage and Gran
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Kanga Wrote:
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> And why assume that if a measurement is close to a
> whole number, then it is that whole number that
> was the intended measurement?
>
> And why look a gift horse in the mouth?
I consider it necessary to look into as many possible explanations as one can.
The obvious is not always the correct solution
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Sirfiroth Wrote:
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> > You cannot use sekeds for the slopes of the
> > shafts; not even for the passageways. Sekeds
> only
> > apply to the slopes of the faces.
>
> What method did they used to calculate the slopes
> o
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Jammer Wrote:
> I would be curious what in your investigations
> indicated the shafts were not intended to finish,
> and therefore the "QC as a Lifeboat" hypothesis
> would be wrong in its entirity, if you might care
> to share any of it...
Hello Jammer,
I am not at all happy with the idea that the Queen’s Chamber was intended to serve as Khufu’s burial chamb
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Hello all,
Many thanks for the feedback.
I cannot see any need for the Great Pyramid to be sitting over an older structure – unless one wants to view the Grotto and possibly the roughly hewn passage (or the upper part of it) running down from it as being that structure.
I am aware of the situation with the upper (King’s Chamber) shafts, i.e. that they might not have reached the faces of
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