The UnMuseum - The Great Pyramid It is the Great Pyramid of Khufu, at Giza, Egypt. Even in ancient timesthieves, breaking into the sacred burial places, were a major problem and http://www.unmuseum.org/kpyramid.htm
Extractions: Khufu's Great Pyramid Workers finish one of the smaller pyramids at the Great Pyramid complex at Giza. It's 756 feet long on each side, 450 high and is composed of 2,300,000 blocks of stone, each averaging 2 1/2 tons in weight. Despite the makers' limited surveying tools no side is more than 8 inches different in length than another, and the whole structure is perfectly oriented to the points of the compass. Until the 19th century it was the tallest building in the world and, at the age of 4,500 years, it is the only one of the famous " Seven Wonders of the Ancient World " that still stands. It is the Great Pyramid of Khufu, at Giza, Egypt. Some of the earliest history of the Pyramid comes from a Greek traveler named Herodotus of Halicanassus. He visited Egypt around 450 BC and included a description of the Great Pyramid in a history book he wrote. Herodotus was told by his Egyptian guides that it took twenty-years for a force of 100,000 oppressed slaves to build the pyramid. Stones were lifted into position by the use of immense machines. The purpose of the structure, according to Herodotus's sources, was as a tomb for the Pharaoh Khufu (whom the Greeks referred to as Cheops).
King Tut Getting A New Home In Egypt - Science - MSNBC.com This will be Tuts final resting place. Artifacts from all over Egyptianofficials say they hope the new museum at the pyramids will attract an http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8322921/
Extractions: CAIRO, Egypt - A giant museum with a glowing alabaster facade and a roof in alignment with the nearby pyramids will house King Tut's mummy and treasures along with thousands of other artifacts, according to a design unveiled Wednesday. Wednesday's design was the latest step in the government's ambitious $500 million project for the Grand Museum of Egypt, which would provide a single spot at the foot of the pyramids for 100,000 artifacts, many of which have been sitting in warehouses for decades with no room to display them. Egypt is negotiating with the Japanese Bank for International Development for a loan for the project and plans its own fund-raising drive. The $40 million that Egypt hopes to raise from a current tour of King Tutankhamun artifacts in the United States will go toward the project. Officials hope to start building on the site later this year and to complete construction by 2009, the Supreme Council for Antiquities said.
EDSITEment - Lesson Plan How do the pyramids tell us about the peoples of ancient Egypt? This willorient them to Africa s place in the world, as well as Egypt s place in Africa http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=418
Pyramid Part II FOOTNOTES of Paris was used as a standard by the French, but other sources have otherplaces. Measurers of the Great Pyramid s Base and Their Measures http://greatpyramid.org/aip/footnotz.htm
Extractions: to The Great Pyramid, Part II. Chronography 1a. Dan Millar, who has been posting messages around the internet about the Virgin Mary, says this, "If you study the Virgin Mary's messages, you will come across the following; (Paraphrasing) "The Lady first held up three fingers, then four, then all five. She said, 'The three stands for March, four is April, and the five is May 5th. It will be an important day for souls.' " Perhaps the date May 5 comes from a source like this, because the book reveals NOTHING about that date deriving from the Pyramid. 1 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: (Psa 78:51) Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. (Psa 105:23) They showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. (Psa 105:27) Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea. (Psa 106:22) 2 "And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits... "(Gen 6:15) 3 I have read sources that say the meridian of Paris was used as a standard by the French, but other sources have other places. I have not pinpointed the exact place that was originally used in setting up the metric system. The point is irrelevant, and the things I say here about Paris would apply to any other location.
Guardian's Giza - The Great Pyramid The attribution of the pyramid to King Khufu is supported by workmans TOUR the Pyramid. Guardian s Egypt RETURN TO Guardian s Egypt Main Gate http://guardians.net/egypt/gp1.htm
Extractions: Read even more about it HERE After the Great Pyramid was initially sealed, it's original entrance was hidden and faced with smooth limestone. Because this blended in so well with the surrounding casing, the opening was invisible. Around 820 AD, Abdullah Al Mamun mobilized men to bore a tunnel into the pyramid to search for chambers and treasure. Due to the difficulty of the task of breaking up the hard rock, fires were built to heat the rock and then cold vinegar was poured over the heated rock. Battering rams were used to pound away the weakened rock and clear a tunnel. Eventually, a passageway was found which descended into the lowest chamber of the pyramid. Following this passageway back upward, the original entrance was finally located. In these pictures of the NORTH side you can see the intrusive entrance lower down, and the original entrance higher up flanked by angled stones: From the outside, near the original entrance. In the left view on the lower left you can see a granite block, believed to be one of the large portcullis blocks that were originally lowered in the antechamber to seal the main burial chamber. These have all been removed from there original place, this one remains here. The picture on the right is looking down the original entrance through the grating that is now in place, this passageway runs over 100 yards in length to the subterranean chamber:
