The Great Pyramid.

As many of you already know, I'm pretty sure I'm a reincarnated Pharoah.

An ancient Egyptian Pharoah.  From way back.

Perhaps even Ramses III, the very greatest of all Pharoahs, I'm thinking.  He ruled for more than sixty years, BTW, which is even longer than Joe O'Biden's plans call for.  

I have no evidence for this belief, I should say about here, but it's just an inkling.  Because I'm intensely interested in all things ancient Egypt.  For a dozen reasons at least.

And don't lie, you probably are too.     

And one of those reasons is the Great Pyramid of Khufu (or Cheops, if you're old like me).  He was a big-time Pharoah back in 2,580 BC.  They think that's who built it.  They're not sure, no evidence, except a 4" high statue of him found nearby.  But hey, he's as good a Pharoah as any to ascribe ownership, right?  It's the biggest-assed building of all time and we need to tie it to somebody, right?

But forget about who commissioned it.  Let me tell you a little bit about it.  I think you'll be astounded!  As am I...

     -  First, the Great Pyramid (GP) is 481' high and covers 13 acres.  13 acres!  snd you should know there are 43,000+ square feet in an acre.  Times 13 acres.  That's big.

     -  It has a footprint of 592,000 sq. ft.  If that doesn't give you a sense of its size, a COSTCO is about 200,000 sq. ft.  

     -  Each of its sides are 722' long, and deviate in length from each other by far less than 1".

     -  It was one of the Seven Wonders of the World, and is the only one left standing.  It was the tallest structure on Earth for more than 3,000 years.  

     -  The pyramidal, gold-plated "cap" originally on top of the GP is missing, otherwise it would be at least 20' taller than it currently is* 

     -  The GP is built from 2,800,000 stone blocks, each weighing between 2 and 1/2 and 25 tons.  Each.

     -  The GP was built pointing to true Cardinal North, and is only 3/60th of a degree off.  That makes it the most accurately built building on Earth.**  Still.   

     -  These gigantic stones came from a quarry more than 500 miles away.  By crews who cut them, rough-shaped them, and then transported them by ship all the way up the Nile to the GP.  It was there they were offloaded, final-shaped and ultimately set.  

     -  It was built over a period of 20 years, they think, to become the burial place for Pharoah Khufu.  They think.  However, no ruler was ever found buried in any of the more than 100 pyramids uncovered so far.  Nor were there any hiroglyphs or other writings in the GP to help solve the mystery.

     -  The GP weighs in at a portly 5.9 Million Tons.  

     -  Interestingly, if one does the math, dividing 20 years' worth of minutes back through 2,800,000 stone blocks, they would have had to place one every five minutes, around the clock, in order to make that "deadline."  Pun intended.   

     -  The GP, and all the other pyramids, were built by craftsmen.  Who worked for the Pharoah during the off-planting season.  The period when the Nile flooded.  Which it did annually.  They hoped.  Slaves need not apply.  Imagine this: they worked for bread and beer.  Only.  This was obviously before some enterprising worker later conjured up a thing called "unions."      

     -  The GP was built in the exact center of all the land masses on Earth (east/west and north/south axes).  By design, no doubt.  Someone's design, no doubt.  We're just not quite sure whom.

     -  Now pay attention here: twice the perimeter of the base of the GP, multiplied by 10 to the 8th power, yields the radius of the Sun.  Say wha...?

     -  And here's one worth your time.  The speed of light is 299,792,458 in m/s.  The GP's Global Positioning System's coordinates are - ready for this? - 29.9792458 degrees North.  Could that be an accident?  Don't think so. 

     -  And just to make this whole thing seem even less likely, they had only copper tools for stone quarrying, no iron or bronze.  The copper came from mines in Lebanon, hundreds of miles away.  Copper was more valuable to the ancient Egyptians than gold!  They searched their workers every day to make sure they weren't taking any home.  And those tools needed sharpening several times a day.  

Nor did they have the wheel.  

Nor beasts of burden.  

Only the backs of their laborers.  

Now then, does anyone still believe they did all this without the assistance of those, ummm, you know, L.G.M. up there? 

As Rameses III would say, don't think so...

*   There are several "pyramidia" on display at Egytian museums.  Some of us, as in ME, believe that the spacecraft bringing their LGM, were pyramidal in shape.  And they endeavored to mimic it to encourage their hoped for return.  And you'll note those same pyramidal space craft are still in use today...