• kubica
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    181 month ago

    But then go and decide to use a square base… SMH.

    • @Varyk
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      The great pyramid appears to have an octagonal base.

      https://www.discovery.com/exploration/Eight-Faces-Great-Pyramid-Giza

      Not like a full equitable octagon, but four faces each split via a small concavity.

      I think the attached picture is the original one an RAF pilot took at dusk when he noticed that the shadow wasn’t uniform across the face of one side.

      I know the 8 sides are contested, some people say the concavity is an optical illusion.

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          Egyptologists are conservative and won’t allow any measurements of practically anything anymore.

          No looking at the sphinx shafts/cavities (there’s an entrance up top), no tomb inspections, no measuring a bunch of stuff.

          They even paved over a bunch of shafts for “restoration”.

          https://madainproject.com/sphinx_tunnels_chambers

          Every time you hear about a new radar scan or whatever, it took years to get through the bureaucracy.

          The collected sourced pictures appear to be accurate at any rate.