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Question

If you take the perimeter of the pyramid and divide it by two times the height, you get a number that is exactly equivalent to the number pi (3.14159...) up to the fifteenth digit. The chances of this phenomenon happening by sheer chance is remarkably small. Did the ancient Egyptians know what the number pi was? Not likely, seeing as it was a number not calculated accurately to the fourth digit until the 6th century, and the pyramids calculate it to the fifteenth.

What about the fact that even though the sides of the base of the pyramid are some 757 feet long, it still forms an almost perfect square? Every angle in the base is exactly 90 degrees. In fact, the sides have a difference in length of something like two centimeters, which is an incredibly small amount.

What about the fact that although the Egyptians kept very careful records about everything they ever did; every king they had, every war they fought, and every structure they built, there were no records of them ever having built the pyramids?

What about the fact that the Egyptians had not even invented the wheel yet, but the blocks that they had to carry to build the pyramids weighed about 2 tons each? 4,000 lbs.? What did they do... use cement? In fact, they used so much stone, that if you took all of the stone they used and cut it into 1 foot square blocks, it would extend 2/3 of the way around the earth!!!

A Japanese team tried to build a scale model of the Great Pyramid in the
1970s using ancient methods. They completely failed at every step and had to
call in trucks and helicopters. The finished pyramid was mess. They could not
achieve any precision using modern technology.

Answer 1

Oh, where to start? Just because you were born at a time where the most difficult problem you have to deal with is learning how to use your new phone does not mean you have significantly greater brain-power than someone born 5 to 7,000 years ago.

I use a computer every day. Someone else designed and built it. According to your logic, the fact that I couldn't build one means that it is impossible.

The victorians built the most amazing of machines. We have lost a lot of their engineering skills - but it does not mean that they were built by someone else! It means only that, and this is the critical bit, they had skills and tools we no longer have.

Look at the Medieval cathedrals! They built those without cranes and JCB's - MORE THAN A THOUSAND YEARS AGO!

Please do not be so disrespectful to ancient engineers - just because they didn't watch TV does not make them stupid!!!

Answer 2

And your question is?

If you take as a given than manking with hands and hand made tools cannot built big things then the Great Wall cannot have been built, neither the Roman aqueducts by the way, the walls of Mycenoa could only be built by little green men from Mars, and the impressive pyramids of Southern America civilisations just popped from outer space, just to name a few.

Human ingenuousity overcame many obstacles. The fact that we lost so much knowledge about building with our hands, discarding it when we found easier ways to do thing, doesn't mean it was invented and used.

And by the way, Egyptians used war chariots. What did they use as wheels if they didn't know about it? Running slaves?

Answer 3

You accept that they did it only that you dont understand how. That should make agree that the Egyptians were geniuses and for that matter you may die having not understood how that could happen. Dont worry about what has already been done since it's done.