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...Moreux, director of the Bourges Observatory, France, in a book, The Mysterious Science of the Pharaohs, revealed the fact that the Great Pyramid of Cheops was built by possessors of most profound mathematical, geographical and astronomical knowledge, and embodies many principles which have been rediscovered by modern scientists only in the comparatively recent past. It was probably used as an observatory by Egyptian astronomers, who knew how to measure the earth, the distance between earth and sun and the length of an ideal meridian. The perimeter of the pyramid, divided by its height, gives 3.1416, the geometrical π. The number...
...third feature of the show is a flight of steps. The figure is literal and refers in no way to the dancers. Down in the clanking depths of some mechanical mind these steps were born. They pyramid, they stretch, they disappear, revolve and blunder grandly forth again in pyramids. The chorus drilled across them ceaselessly, results achieved were strikingly effective...
...usual, the Communist leaders are attempting to build a pyramid from the top down. Instead of gradually and thoroughly developing the resources of the nation and the intelligence of the people to a point where modern inventions could be usefully applied, they intend to thrust electricity and airplanes on peasants who are terrified by a rumored collision with Jupiter. And instead of increasing their nucleus of educated men by putting their universities on a sound financial basis, they seek to spread a thin coating of information over the masses by means of isolated lectures. Meanwhile, conditions in the universities have...
...confusion on two separate hills may appear almost hopeless, although the procedure is really quite simple," says Dr. Reisner. Then he goes on to explain how the tombs, were separated into small groups, the members of each of which were united by contacts, by position, or by similarities of pyramid, chapel, foundation deposits, stairway, burial chambers, and accompanying objects; and how gradually, by the study of every detail, the exact order became clear...
...From 750 B. C., every ruler of Ethiopia was a male. About 160 B. C., the third generation after Ergamenes, the great queen who was buried in Pyramid N. VI seems to have been queen-regent for her son for perhaps ten years. About one hundred and thirty years later. Queen Amanshakhete, who reunited Ethiopia, appears to have been queen-regent under similar circumstances. Her son-in-law. Netekaman, the great builder of temples, obviously came to the throne by the hereditary position of his wife. Queen Amantere, who occupied an unusual position and received burial with the honors...