Pyramidology

Pyramidographia: The Geometry of the Great Pyramid

The Great Pyramid has been measured countless times and there many theories about the origin and meaning of its geometry. Detailed information about the Great Pyramid can be found in many places on the internet. Flinders Petries The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh has been digitised by Ronald Birdsal. The Giza Plateau Maping Project has created an accurate model of the whole plateau. The Guardian's Egypt website contains a great collection of detailed photographs and Rudolph Gantenbrink has provided detailed information about the channels in the pyramid.

Problem with this data is that the Petrie book is very hard to read because it contains no plans and sections and the Giza Plateau mapping project is not available to the public. I thus decided to create my own drawings.

The purpose of this project is to provide a resource for fellow pyramid researchers requiring detailed information. All information is provided under a Creative Commons license and can be freely used by anyone, as long as ot is properly referecned.

The information on the webiste is only available in pdf format. If you which to have access to the DXF files to undertake your own analysis, please contact me.

The drawings are complete, but still contain uncertainties and additional information would be very welcome. You can help me with the following:

• Where can I find a copy of L'Architettura delle pirimidi menfite (part IV) by V. Maragioglio and C. Rinaldi, in Australia.
• Photographs of structural details of the pyramids:
• Connection between walls and floor in the middle chamber
• Protrusion in opening of the middle chamber

Drawings

These drawings have been prepared in QCAD and should to be printed on A3 paper. Only one drawing has been completed till date.

1. Site plan
2. General Layout
3. Middle Chamber.
4. Gallery
5. Ante chanber
6. Upper Chamber

Sources

• Cole, J.H., Determination of the exact size and orientation of the Great Pyramid of Giza (Government Press: Cairo 1925), Published in Duat cd-rom magazine, issue 1, September 2002.
• Feisal, Esmael A. (Ed.), The first international sympsium on the application of modern technology to archaeological explorations at the Giza necropolis (Egyptian Antiquities Organization Press: Cairo December 1987).
• Gantenbrink, Rudolf, The Upanaut Project.
• Lepre, J.P., The Egyptian pyramids (McFarlan & Company: Jefferson 1990).
• Petrie, W.M. Flinders, The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh (History & Mysteries of Man: London 1990), Revised edition with an update by Zahi Hawass.
• Smyth, Piazzi, The Great Pyramid (Granmercy Books: New York 1978). Orginally published as Our inheritance in the Great Pyramid (1880).

Websites

• Giza Plateau Mapping Project: Digital model by the University of Chicago.
• Electronic version of The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh by Ronald Birdsall.
• Guardian's Egypt: Site with excellent photograph collection of the pyramids.
• Giza Plateau on Google Maps.

Pyramid Geometry Theories

• Charles William Johnson, The Great Pyramid: Measurements, in: Earth/matrix, Science in Ancient Artwork, Extract No.28.
• Dániel Tarr, True Measures of The Pyramid.