Who really built the Pyramids of Egypt?

Who really built the ancient pyramids? ‘To be honest,’ says Graham Bruce Hancock, ‘I have no answer to that question and anybody who tells you that he or she knows how the pyramids were built are not telling the truth because we don’t know, we don’t know.’

Graham Hancock is a British writer and journalist. He is known, amongst other things, for his pseudoscientific theories involving ancient myths, and astronomical or astrological data from the past. Pseudoscientific theories consists of beliefs, statements, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual but are often characterised by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims. In other words, they are often challenged and even ridiculed.

To put any doubt into a reader’s mind at the start of a video is unfortunate, as the subject matter, who really built the Pyramids of Egypt, is enormously interesting. His theories on the origins of civilisation have been dismissed by archaeologists as rubbish, but he is certainly not bonkers. See what the Guardian say about him, here.

Back to the Pyramids and who built them.

• The Great Pyramid weigh 6 million tons
• Its footprint is 13 acres
• It is 756 ft long and 481 ft tall
• 5 million individual blocks of stone were used in its construction

Even using current technology, the precision construction of a structure of this size is impossible. The base is level to within 15 millimeters, or 0.6 inch and the sides of the base are exact to within 58 millimeters of each other. It is aligned to true north with a 3/60 degree error margin. But, that’s not all – here is a link to a very interesting video. 

Footnote: You’d think the world’s biggest pyramid is in Egypt – after all, they do call it The Great Pyramid. But the largest such structure is actually in Mexico, hidden beneath a hill in the nearby town of Pueblo. Known as the Great Pyramid of Cholula, this ancient Aztec temple has a base four times larger than Giza’s, and nearly twice the volume: Source: https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/biggest-pyramid-world/

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Martin Pollins

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Martin Pollins is a Chartered Accountant and MBA with wide experience in corporate finance and business management. He has served on the boards of several companies, including those listed on the London Stock Exchange, AIM and OFEX. He is Chairman and Founder of OneSmartPlace and was a Council member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales from 1988 to 1996. He was managing partner of PRB Martin Pollins, based in Sussex, the first Accountancy firm to advertise on British television.He went on to create and launch the CharterGroup Partnership (the UK’s first Accountancy network) and then LawGroup UK (at the time, one of the largest networks of lawyers in the UK). In recent years, he helped to raise several £millions to fund British films such as The Da Vinci Code, Bridge of San Luis Rey, Head in the Clouds and Merchant of Venice with actors such as Charlize Theron, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, F. Murray Abraham. Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Hanks, Ian McKellen, Audrey Tautou, Penélope Cruz, Steven Berkoff, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes and many more.

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