Dimensions of the Cheops-pyramid (Khufu's pyramid)

Numbers and figures of the Cheops (Khufu) pyramid:
The pyramid of Khufu - Output / performance - Building material - Dimensions of the pyramid - Dimensions in Royal Cubits - Sources

Cheops-pyramid (pyramid of Khufu)

Of the the famous Seven Wonders of the Ancient World the Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) at Giza is the only one still standing. Even for modern men it is amazing how this man-made structure lasted so long.

The Giza pyramids must have made an incredible visual impact - at the edge of the desert three abstract geometrical symbols were rising, huge luminous white triangles reflecting the blinding light of the sun!

The pyramids on the Giza plateau are with 146.59m (Khufu / Cheops) and 143.87m (Khafre / Chefren) respectively the largest, however there are over 30 major pyramids and a myriad of smaller pyramids in Egypt.

Cheops-Pyramid
1. Entrance 2. Entrance cut by grave robbers 3. Subterranean chamber 4. Grand Gallery 5. King's chamber, relieving chambers, granite portcullis slabs 6. Queen's chamber 7. Shaft 8. Limestone plugging the air shaft A= "Air shafts"

Output / performance

Detailed calculations how many workers were necessary to build the pyramid
Overview pyramid building

Builder
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Khufu (Chuefui-Chnum or Khnum-Khuf, Cheops in Greek) during the 4th dynasty of the old kingdom

Time to build

Probably max. 23 years (Khufu reigned from 2551 to 2528 before Christ *). Herodotus writes about 10 years of preparation and 20 years of building (details of the text)

Per day

With 2'500'000 stones 342 stones have to be moved daily (working during 365 days a year) or 431 stones daily (working during 290 days a year).

Per minute

10-hour day: every 2 minutes a stone (34 to 43 per hour)
8-hour day: nearly a stone every minute (42 to 53 stones per hour)

Rule of thumb

While construction the pyramid the rate of delivery was 1 stone weighting 2.5 tons every minute.

For our calculations we assume 500 stones a day. This is a rough estimate, assuming a 8-hour day, during 290 days a year, with 20 years to build the pyramid. Also assuming, that more time had to be used for the huge granite blocks for the King's chamber and for the more difficult upper part of the pyramid, where work went slower than in the lower parts. There probably were also other factors delaying the building of the pyramid such as the weather or a temporary shortage of certain building materials.

Building materials for the Cheops-pyramid

the 210 stone layrs of the cheops-pyramid and the percentage of building substance

The Khufu-pyramid (Cheops) probably originally had 210 stone layers. At 50m height already 82% of the entire pyramid was built [3].

Quarrying stones for the pyramid
Shipping the stone blocks down the Nile to Giza
Transporting the stone blocks using a sledge on tracks
Löhner's rope roll

Stone blocks -------------------		2'300'000 stones
Casing blocks		115'000 to 200'000 stones or 67'390m³ [1]
Total blocks		2'500'000 stones
Stone layers		Originally probably 210 stone layers, now only 201 layers [2]
Stone size		The stone blocks usually are larger in the lower layers (1.5m = 3 cubit) and smaller in the upper layers. Most are between 1.5 and 2 cubit large (average of 127 x 127 x 71cm). 1 cubit = 0.524m - Details
Weight of the stone blocks		With an average density of 2,6 - 2,9 t/m³ the large limestone blocks weighted 6.5 - 10 tons and the smaller ones about 1.3 tons. For all calculations on this website an average weight of 2.5 tons was used.
Special blocks		For the King's chamber granite blocks weighting 40 to 50 tons were used
Total weight		6'500'000 tons (average weight of a block was about 2.5 tons)
Pyramidion		The final stone on the top was a large block in the shape of a pyramid. It was perhaps around 1.5m by 1.5m wide and 1.3m high (about 3 cubits). It was made from white Tura limestone (Turah), granite or perhaps diorite and perhaps gold plated. More information
Building materials		Pyramid: Nummulite limestone from quarries about 200-400m south of the pyramid were used for the core stones. Casing: light white limestone, so called Tura-limestone from quarries from the eastern shores of the Nile King's chamber: Rose granite from Aswan 900km away Further materials: Graywacke from the Wadi Hammamat (Eastern desert), basalt from the northern Faiyum Map of quarries in Egypt

Dimensions of the pyramid of Khufu

Dimensions of the Cheops (Khufu) pyramid, angles, lenght, hight

Length (a) -------------------		The average length of the edge is ~ 230.360m (230,12m = 440 cubits). Northern edge 230.328m - eastern edge 230.369m - southern edge 230.372m - western edge 230.372m. Largest difference is only 4.4cm. [3]
Height (h)		Originally 146.59m high (= 280 cubits), the pyramid is now only 138.75m high [7]
Diagonal (d)		325.77m
Ridge (g)		219m
Height of the lateral surface		186.42m
Pyramid angle α		51° 50' 40' = inclination of the lateral surface (= 52° rounded off) [3] which corresponds to a seked of 5½ palms
Pyramid angle β		58.3° = the two angles of the triangular lateral surface (62° = angle of the apex or tip of the pyramid) - nearly forming an equilateral triangle!
Pyramid angle γ		41.9° = angle of the ridge
Corner angle		Right angle base with angles from 89° 59' to 90°
Base area		53'065.73m²
Superficies surface		85'890.69m²
Pyramid volume		2'592'968.43m³ including the rock core. This would be a cube with a length of 137.38m. Probable volume of stones used: 2'583'283m³ [1] or 2'326'501m³ [2].
Alignment		Exactly to the north (deviation only 2' 28')
Latitude and longitude		N 29° 58’ 44.3830” latitude and E 31° 07’ 57.0194” longitude [5]
Altitude		The base of the pyramid of Khufu lies about 60m above sea level, so the tip of the pyramid used to be on 206m above sea level [6].

Alignment of the pyramids and controlling the shape of the pyramid (north-south alignment etc.)

Dimensions of the pyramid of Khufu in Egyptian Royal Cubits

	Length (a)		440 Royal Cubits
	Height (h)		280 Royal Cubits
	Height of the lateral surface (c)		356 Royal Cubits (356.09)
	Diagonal (d)		622.25 Royal Cubits
	Ridge (g)		418.56 Royal Cubits
	Pyramid angle α		51.843°
	Pyramid angle β		58.3°
	Pyramid angle γ		41.9°
	Corner angle		90°

It is suggested, that the Egyptians used a right angled triangle to determinate the angle of inclination of the pyramid, using the numbers a=11 and b=14 with c=17.8 (or a=22 - b=28 - c= 35.6). This determines a so called seked of 5½ palms.
Alignment of the pyramids and controlling the shape of the pyramid (seked)

Sources

[1] M. Lehner The Complete Pyramids of Egypt
[2] G. Goyon Die Cheops-Pyramide
[3] R. Stadelmann Die grossen Pyramiden von Giza
[4] F. Abitz Der Bau der grossen Pyramide mit einem Schrägaufzug
[5] GPS-coordinates of a brass disk on top of the pyramid of Khufu, Giza Plateau Mapping Project (GPMP)
[6] Maps of the Giza Plateau Mapping Project show the altitude as 60m
[7] D. Arnold Building in Egypt

* Dates according to conventional Egyptian chronology are used in this website. These are based on several list of the dynasties of pharaohs, for example the Aegyptiaca of Manetho of Sebennytos.

https://www.cheops-pyramide.ch/khufu-pyramid/khufu-numbers.html

New Year's Prophecy

Intertemporal Perspective via 2016 Tower & Star Rituals

By Goro Adachi

December 30, 2016

Century II - 41
The great star will burn for seven days,
The cloud will make two suns appear:
The large mastiff will howl all night
When the great pontiff changed territory.

- Nostradamus

Not all New Year's Days are created equal and this one coming up happens to be a special one. The previous one was special as well, both being attached to the year 2016, the point of no return. And if the pattern holds, we are in for a whole new set of inter-temporal "clues" which, if decoded properly, should be quite prophetic in nature. Decoding these things happens to be my specialty, or obsession...

It's telling that The Economist's annual, end of the year crystal ball edition features a cover with tarot cards. Obviously they were inspired by the irresistible combination of "Trump" (cards) and the idea of divination (predicting the future). Not too surprising there. (What is surprising though is how most people trying to "decode" it can't even crack the first step: The only two tilted cards, "Judgment" and "The Star", are card #20 and card #17 per tradition, spelling out "20-17" or "2017".)

The Economist is actually a bit late to the party as there was a whole lot of foreshadowing going on last year through the tarot symbolism on New Year's Eve/Day (2015/2016). It came in the form of Dubai's tower inferno evoking the Tower card numbered 16 (as in 2016)...

Dec 31, 2015 Fire engulfs skyscraper near Dubai's New Year's
fireworks display

...in effect foreshadowing the earthshaking rise of "Trump" who famously lives in Trump Tower (= Tower trump card).

Extending the pattern forward in time would have the new year 2017 correspond to tarot card #17 - "The Star".

It would most certainly be Sirius on New Year's Eve/Day as a magical celestial moment arrives every year when the brightest star in the night sky "culminates" due south reaching its highest point right around midnight on New Year's Eve/Day.

But as I said, it's extra special around 2016. I'm quite aware of this, and it seems so was Nostradamus. Let me introduce you to quatrain II-41, or as I like to call it the "Sirius quatrain":

Century II - 41
La grand' estoille par sept jours bruslera,
Nuee fera deux soleils apparoir:
Le gros mastin toute nuit hurlera,
Quand grand pontife changera de terroir.

The great star will burn for seven days,
The cloud will make two suns appear:
The large mastiff will howl all night
When the great pontiff changed territory.

- Nostradamus

Right now it is highly relevant and timely as shown below:

Line 1: The great star will burn for seven days

Being the brightest star in the night sky, Sirius certainly qualifies as a "great star". It "burns" in the sense that the name "Sirius" means "scorcher" plus the phrase "Dog Days of summer" derives from Sirius's nickname "Dog Star". Even the "seven days" (sept jours) part relates to Sirius in that ancient Egyptians called the star Spd, Spdt, or Sept, resonating with the French sept meaning "seven. ("Seven days" can also allude to the 7-day festival Saturnalia, Dec 17-23.)

Line 2: The cloud will make two suns appear

In esoteric tradition Sirius has been considered the "second sun".

Line 3: The large mastiff will howl all night

Sirius is the "Dog Star" ("mastiff") and it "howls all night" on New Year's Eve/Day by being visible all night long. (Culminating around midnight implies being visible from dusk to dawn.)

Line 4: When the great pontiff changed territory

The last time there was a change in the papacy was back in 2013 when Pope Benedict XVI stepped down and Pope Francis took over. Unbeknownst to most, it managed to multicontextually encode an arrow pointing ahead to the year 2016:

Pope Benedict XVI is "16" (XVI), numerically resonating with 2016 and the Tower card (XVI)

Pope Francis's first foreign trip ("changing territory") as head of the Catholic Church was to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in July 2013, where the Summer Olympics would take place in 2016

Jul 22, 2013 Pope Francis arrives in Rio de Janeiro

Aug 05, 2016 Rio Olympic Games begin

A geo-alignment pinpointing Rio was implied via Pope Benedict XVI's resignation announcement taking place concurrently with a major meteor impact event in Russia

Feb 11, 2013: Pope Benedict XVI announces resignation
Feb 15, 2013: Major meteor impact in Chelyabinsk, Russia

In the context of the "Sirius quatrain" II-41, it makes a lot of sense for Rio to be highlighted in this manner. It has to do with the real, hidden reason behind the name "Rio de Janeiro" or "River of January" which I'm revealing here for the first time anywhere (aside from STRUG/members section which is always ahead)...

Firstly, the term "January" (Janeiro) derives from Janus the god of beginnings, endings, time, and doorways. Basically a perfect set of descriptions for New Year's Eve/Day (= beginning of January).

And it just so happens it's right around New Year's Day, when Sirius "howls all night", that Rio and the Sun are aligned in terms of latitude & declination. In other words, the Sun is directly overhead at noon in Rio right around New Year's Day. Rio in this way indeed is a "city of Janus/January"!

As above, so below... Sirius is the "New Year's star" above, Rio de Janeiro is the "New Year's city" below. Having established this and 2016 being the year of the Rio Olympics, we can then quite easily infer that the beginning and ending of 2016 are of special, "ritualistic" significance. We already saw this in action at the beginning of 2016 (Dubai tower fire), and we are now about to witness something at the end of 2016.

The straightforward expectation would be that it would reflect "The Star" card - #17 representing "2017" - just as the Dubai tower inferno was a simulation of the "Tower" tarot card, #16. This would mean it would likely involve Sirius on New Year's Eve/Day. (I may actually already know the ritual taking place, but I'll save it for another article, perhaps early next year.)

There is another approach here to discerning the nature of the end of 2016 "ritual(s)". It has to do with the fact that Rio and the Sun are also aligned on ~December 10th (equidistant from the solstice).

That "preview" window precisely coincided with a major geopolitical flareup stemming from the apparent Russian cyber attacks against the US during the 2016 presidential election.

News Links:
Dec 09 Obama, GOP senators call for probe into Russia interference
Dec 09 Russia tried to meddle in elections, favored Trump over Clinton
Dec 09 Russia 'intervened to promote Trump' - US intelligence
Dec 10 Donald Trump takes aim at US Intelligence on Russia
Dec 11 Bipartisan group of senators calls for probe of Russian role
Dec 11 Trump rejects CIA Russia hacking report
Dec 12 CIA has high confidence Russians tried to help Trump
Dec 12 Republicans Ryan and McConnell back Russia vote hack probe
Dec 12 Russian hacking and the 2016 election, explained
Dec 12 Trump to name Exxon CEO with Russia ties as secretary of state
Dec 14 The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded U.S.
Dec 14 US Officials: Putin Personally Involved in US Election Hack
Dec 15 Obama vows action against Russia for hacks
Dec 16 FBI backs CIA view that Russia intervened to help Trump win
Dec 16 Obama: The U.S. Will Send 'Clear Message' to Russia on Hacks

Just so you know that I'm not discussing all this relying only on hindsight, I did quickly give a heads-up regarding this developing pattern via Twitter back in mid December...

My tweets from Dec 18:

My tweet from Dec 22:

Sure enough, the "next phase" got underway right on time late December just days before New Year's Day.

Dec 29 White House announces retaliation against Russia:
Sanctions, ejecting diplomats
Dec 29 US expels Russian diplomats over cyber attack allegations
Dec 29 'Cold War Déjà Vu': Russia Dismisses Sanctions and Vows
'Mirror Response'
Dec 30 Putin rules out tit-for-tat expulsion of diplomats
Dec 30 Trump praises "very smart" Putin on Twitter

It's an ongoing situation, happening in real time as I write this and it wouldn't be surprising if we hear more about the US retaliation against Russia around the New Year's Eve/Day weekend, such as actual US cyber attacks against Russia.

(I've consistently pointed to the significance of the Russian cyberwar situation since the very beginning. See: Jul 26 tweet, Jul 27 tweet, Jul 30 tweet, Aug 30 update. Here we are, it's like the Cold War has returned.)

Saturnalia (Dec 17-23) was another important window we were watching very closely... (Saturnalia starts on Pope Francis's birthday, by the way.) My tweet from Nov 24:

And it was intense indeed...

Dec 19 Truck plows through crowd at Christmas Market in Berlin

Dec 19 Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead in Ankara
Dec 19 Donald Trump clinches Electoral College majority
Dec 20 At least 29 killed in blast at Mexico fireworks market

...and contained some New Year's Day "signals". The exploding fireworks in Mexico City for example naturally bring to mind New Year's celebrations.

Plus, Mexico City's latitude, 19.43 deg. North, most recently aligned with the Sun (declination) around July 25th, precisely coinciding with the start of the Russian cyberwar situation playing out in the public, via Wikileaks releasing DNC emails, etc. So that's very coherent pattern-wise. (There were also Sirius allusions in the Saturnalia events but we won't go into those here.)

Jul 24, 2016 DNC Chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz Stepping
Aside in Wake of Leaked Email Scandal
Jul 25 How Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the
Election of an American President
Jul 25 As Democrats Gather, a Russian Subplot Raises Intrigue
Jul 25 The DNC hack and dump is what cyberwar looks like
Jul 26 Why Experts Are Sure Russia Hacked the DNC Emails

Jul 27 Trump Calls on Russia to 'Find' Missing Clinton Emails

"Market" was another theme...

Dec 19 Truck plows through crowd at Christmas Market in Berlin
Dec 20 At least 29 killed in blast at Mexico fireworks market

Notable as it connects right back to the 2015-2016 New Year's Eve/Day "ritual". The name "Dubai" means "market". And the fire there took place right next to the Dubai's spectacular New Year's fireworks.

Dec 31, 2015 Fire engulfs skyscraper near Dubai's New Year's
fireworks display

Makes us wonder if these constitute an omen foreshadowing a major market/financial event coming in the New Year.

I'm going to end this article here, but really we've just scratched the surface. Just the tip of the iceberg for what's unfolding... because 2016 was a tipping point, the point of no return. We didn't even touch on the earth changes and the sixth mass extinction already being discussed on STRUG...

If interested, you are invited to enter the Underground...

https://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/newyears-prophecy.html

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