The Great Pyramid of Giza ~ Daily News Of the Paranormal

The Great Pyramid of Giza

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built in the reign of the Pharaoh Khufu(or Cheops), in the fourth Egyptian dynasty around 2600B.C. Many scientists believe that the pyramid is older than that, furthermore studies of water erosion on the Sphinx proves this theory. With a length of 756 feet on each side and a height of 450 feet, a calculated value of 2,300,000 blocks with each averaging 2 and ½ tons in weight makes up this magnificent structure.

Keeping in mind the age and technology available to built it, the ‘engineers’ built it with such marvellous techniques that no side is more than 8 inches different than another. Another stupefying fact is that the pyramid us oriented true North with a greater accuracy than any other monument, astronomical site, or any other building. In our times, the most accurate north oriented structure is the Paris observatory. It is 6 minutes of a degree off true north. The Great Pyramid of Giza is only 3 minutes of a degree off true north. Studies have shown that this 3 minutes of a degree off true north is due to either a shift in the in the earth's pole or movement of the African continent. It originally was perfectly oriented to true north.

In 5th B.C. Herodotus wrote that Khufu never used or intended to use the Great pyramid a tomb, but instead was buried somewhere in a subterranean region on an island surrounded by the water of the Nile. Another ancient historian, Diodorus Siculus, confirmed Herodotus theory and stated that the Pharaoh Khufu and his wife were buried “in an obcure place”.

Under the caliph, Al-Ma'mūn (reign: 813 - 833), the Arabs were the first people to ‘break into’ the great pyramid in search of treasures, forging their own entrance since they could not find the real entrance. Disappointment was soon to follow when they reached the King’s and Queen’s chambers. They discovered empty coffins made of a single block of granite but no mummies or treasure. Also, contrary to Egyptian practice, the empty lidless box was uninscribed and undecorated, for it would almost certainly have been covered with hieroglyphics and paintings had the pharaoh been placed in.

Mysteriously, the Great pyramid is the only pyramid with both descending and ascending inner passages; all the other pyramids in Egypt have only descending passages. There must be some unique reason why this ascending passage with its chambers and magnificent grand gallery was built into the pyramid.

Another strange feature of the Great pyramid of Giza is the so called ‘airshafts’. Some archaeologists suggested that the air shafts were used to ventilate the monument during its construction, but this idea was soon dismissed as air shafts do not run all the way to the outside and so they may not have been able to fulfil this function.

There is so much detail and information built into the great pyramid that it seems it would have another purpose. When you study this information with an open mind, you realize that maybe this pyramid, the greatest one ever built, was not built as a tomb for a Pharaoh, but for some other purpose.