Khufu Pyramid was canted to one side, scientists say – RIA Novosti

16:21 20.06.2016

(updated: 17:09 20.06.2016 )

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MOSCOW, June 20 – RIA Novosti . The famous pyramid of Cheops was not as perfect as we thought before – scientists have found that it is slightly chamfered on its side and that its eastern side a little shorter than the other three slope “Great Pyramid”, according to archaeologists from the project fund Glenn Dasha

great pyramid of Giza, one of the original seven wonders of the world, was built in the middle of the third millennium BC Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), the representative of the fourth dynasty of the Old kingdom, in which all the “great pyramid” of ancient Egypt were built. This structure height of 145 meters and a width and a length of 230 meters is one of the tallest and largest buildings ever created by mankind.

archaeologists Group sponsored fund Glenn Dasha (Glenn Dash) and led them personally for several years exploring the pyramid, trying to uncover the unknown to us the details of the history of its construction and the secrets of its devices. This week, scientists presented the first results on the high-precision measurements of its height, width, slope and other parameters of the metric

It tells Dash, an accurate measurement of the size of the pyramid -. Not such a simple task as it might seem at first. In the days of the pharaohs Cheops pyramid was covered with “lining tiles” of limestone slabs, from which today is almost nothing left of the fact that it was gradually dismantled the descendants of the Egyptians and alien tribes for the construction of other facilities.

Dash and his team were able to restore what looked like a pyramid in the past, to learn how to located and how to attach preserved limestone slabs and tracked that where there is a platform on which rests the pyramid of Cheops. This allowed them to find the position of the tip of the pyramid on the ground and measure the exact distance between them

It turned out that the pyramid of Cheops, contrary to the opinion of some historians and engineers, not the ideal figure from a mathematical point of view -. Its western wall was 8-14 cm longer than the east wall. This pyramid is somewhat bevelled on its side, while its foot is not a perfect square.

Driving the foot of the pyramid of Cheops

On the other hand, such precision, as recognized Dash was astounding achievement ancient Egyptian engineers, considering what tools were available to them and how much math they know.

According to the engineer’s opinion, such a result was achieved thanks to the fact that the subjects of Cheops built a pyramid raschertiv soil into squares, like the paper in the box. This is supported by the fact that the axis of the pyramid “turned” by the same angle in relation to the lines of the north-south and east-west. Now Dash and his team are studying the data collected during these measurements, hoping to understand how the ancient Egyptian architects managed to solve this problem.

“We hope that we will eventually be able to understand how the Egyptians so well” raschertili “pyramid, and re-create the tools and techniques they used”, – concluded the scientist

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