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Enigma of pyramids Even modern
technology it seems has been unable to solve one of ancient history’s
oldest mysteries, whether the pyramids in Egypt had anything to do
with planetary positions. Robert Webb, a lecturer in surveying in the
school of urban development in Queensland’s University of
Technology, Australia, reviewed major surveying projects of the
pyramids at Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus, built around 2600 BC south
of present day Cairo for his study.
He said early archaeologists who
measured the pyramids at Giza and elsewhere, more than 100 years ago,
were very accurate in their calculations of planetary positions having
some sort of influence over pyramid constructions. "They weren’t
that far out; their surveys were quite diligent and systematic and we’re
getting fairly good agreement using modern technology. Earlier surveys
have found a very close relationship to the planet alignments and what
we can measure on the ground. But it’s more of a theory and some
people have also found while the similarities appear on the surface to
be quite close, it’s just really one of those mathematical
flukes," ABC Online quoted Webb as saying in his paper posted
online by the University. But modern technology with its entire laser
scanning and computer modelling hasn’t helped them get any closer to
solving the mystery, he said. The two major historical surveys of the
pyramids in 1880 and 1925 were done using wire, steel tape and
mahogany rods. Recent attempts to map the pyramids were done using
laser scanning, GPS, satellite imaging, digital technology and
computer visualisation. While the 1880-1882 survey by Sir William
Flinders Petrie concluded that there was no spatial connection between
the distances and directions of the pyramids and anything else, other
theories suggested that spatial relationship of pyramids reflected the
alignment of Orion’s Belt and the orbital path of Mercury, Mars and
Venus. Some theories have also suggested that the perimeter of the
Great Pyramid, or Cheops, of 36,525 pyramid inches was equal to the
number of days in 100 years and the number of books of ancient wisdom
credited to the Egyptian god Thoth. Webb is of the opinion that
initiatives like the University of Chicago’s Giza Plateau mapping
project, which have revealed peculiar alignments inside the pyramids,
could possibly shed more light on alignment theories. —ANI
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