The Keys of Atlantis

A Study of Ancient Unified Numerical and Metrological Systems

by Peter Wakefield Sault

Copyright © Peter Wakefield Sault 1973-2012
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Chapter 3.

Mountains of The Moon

The Stone-Cored Pyramids of Egypt

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3-1. The Giza Complex

Figure 3-1. The Pyramids of Giza (1)

Figure 3-2. Map of The Giza Pyramid Complex

3-2. The Horizon Pyramid

The Pyramid of The Horizon, known variously although erroneously as the Pyramid of Khufu, Pyramid of Kheops, Great Pyramid or First Giza Pyramid, stands on the Giza Plateau in Egypt at 29° 58' 45" N × 31° 08' 03" E. These and all other geographical coordinates given in this chapter have been obtained since 2006 with the aid of Google Earth and supercede all earlier figures from other sources.

Peter Tompkins summarizes the origin of the Horizon Pyramid thus[1]

“Though all agree that the Great [Horizon] Pyramid is at least four thousand years old, none can say for certain just when it was built, by whom, or why.”

The first thing to note about this observation is that Tompkins refrains from attempting to assign a maximum age to the Horizon Pyramid.

Tompkins' book ‘Secrets of The Great [Horizon] Pyramid’ (1971) is without doubt the most comprehensive compendium of myths, legends and knowledge about the Horizon Pyramid ever published and was, as noted on his website*, “not yet faulted in its original content”. Until now, that is to say, firstly in respect of his misapplication of the name ‘Great’ to the Horizon Pyramid and secondly in his treatment of Isaac Newton's fictive ‘Memphis Cubit’ as if it were a genuine unit of measure when it was never more than a figment of Newton's fevered imagination. These matters will be discussed in detail in the final section of this chapter, ‘The Egyptological Fraud’.

Tompkins goes on to say[2]

“It would be satisfactory to be able to describe the method by which the Great [Horizon] Pyramid was put together, by whom, and when.

“But the builders, whoever they may have been, left no description of their method. No one has even found a later Egyptian report of how the first pyramids were built.”

The earliest extant reference to the Horizon Pyramid comes from Herodotus, who says[7]

“To build the pyramid itself took twenty years; it is square at the base, its height (800 feet) equal to the length of each side; it is of polished stone blocks beautifully fitted, none of the blocks being less than thirty feet long.”

It would be another 2,000 years before the Horizon Pyramid was accurately surveyed and the relationship between its height and the length of each side thereby properly observed. With the missing part of the statement inserted:­­­­­­– The quadrant whose radius is the height is equal to the length of each side.

Figure 3-3. Theoretical Proportions of the Horizon Pyramid

Some of the earlier surveys contained errors and gave rise to some preposterous theories, none of which will be discussed here, about which Prof. W.M.F.Petrie says[8]

“It is useless to state the real truth of the matter, as it has no effect on those who are subject to this type of hallucination. They can but be left with the flat earth believers and other such people to whom a theory is dearer than a fact.”

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