Khufu Pyramid

The Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) is perhaps the centrepiece, the iconic symbol of the achievement of the Ancient Egyptian civilization.

But how could a civilization so ancient achieve such an architectural marvel? If we examine a contemporary society (Ancient Britain for example) we see them developing along similar lines as Egyptian tribes in terms of hunter/gatherer, farming and domesticating animals at around the same time. But then there a huge spike in their technological sophistication occurs. They start adopting a complicated system of gods, writing in a structured language (Hieorglyphs) and building huge structures within which they place their dead. For the Britons however, examples of their architecture such as Stonehenge and Avebury come much later and are much less complex.

The Great Pyramid’s base mirrors the relationship between the polar and equatorial circumference of the Earth. It is also built in an unnecessarily complicated manner. Large slabs of stone used in the roofing galleries were not mined from the nearby quarries at Giza but mined hundreds of miles away requiring transport along the Nile. Why?

The answer may be that someone was trying to prove their engineering sophistication and maybe even astronomical knowledge, much in the same way as we see demonstrated by dimensions and relationships coded into the Moon.