Bizarre Pyramids Theories

Bizarre theories about the Cheops Pyramid on the Giza Plateau in Cairo...

The Perfect Structure?

Both Herodotus and Egyptian texts explicitly state that pyramids served as tombs, and the archaeological evidence confirms this beyond doubt.

Nevertheless, from the 19th century onwards, bizarre theories about their function have proliferated, insisting that the Great Pyramid at Giza in particular served a hidden, more exalted purpose. Interpreted variously as an astronomical observatory, sundial, the embodiment of secret knowledge about the past and the future, the Great Pyramid has been held to be the perfect structure and the product of divine inspiration.

Political Reasons

Such "pyramidiocy" has sometimes been promoted for political reasons. For example, calculations (not necessarily accurate) revealed that the basic unit of measure used in the construction of the Great Pyramid was remarkably similar to the English inch.

As the perfect unit in a divine creation, to abandon the inch for the metric system, as Parliament was considering in 1874, would be a blasphemous and pagan act; and indeed, partly for this reason among others, the move was rejected.

Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence

In more recent times, pyramidiocy has resurfaced in various updated forms. As our horizons have broadened, it is not just secret biblical knowledge that has been discerned encrypted in the form and dimensions of the Great Pyramid, but extra-terrestrial intelligence as well.

Yet even the most bizarre pyramids theories concerning master races and alien origins for these supreme Egyptian creations in their way pay tribute to the Fourth Dynasty rulers, simply by expressing incredulity that they could organize and complete so colossal a task.

The Facts!

Ancient Egypt's pyramids are not restricted to Giza, nor are they phenomena only of the Fourth Dynasty. The origins of the pyramid begin well before the 'Pyramid Age' of the Old Kingdom and end long after.

For over one thousand years the pharaohs of ancient Egypt built tombs for themselves and their queens in the form of; pyramids. There are in fact over ninety "royal" pyramids in Egypt, dotting the landscape from the apex of the Nile Delta to the First Cataract of the Nile Valley.

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