Legends of the Cheops pyramid
In 820 AD Caliph Abdullah Al Mamun attempted to breach the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Some documents in his possession indicated to him that inside the pyramid existed a room full of great riches. The caliph had a passage opened until he discovered, with a thousand difficulties, what is today called the "ascending corridor" which leads to what, in Al Mamun's hopes, was to be the treasure room. In reality, the room was more similar to that of a funerary room, so much so that there was even a sarcophagus, but no treasures were found. The sarcophagus that should have contained the pharaoh's mummy was empty.
But why was the sarcophagus empty if the pyramid, until then inviolate, was destined to contain the pharaoh's body? Perhaps the purpose of the Great Pyramid was not the one considered by official archaeology.
The Cheops pyramid measures 230 meters in length on each side, and 147 meters in height, occupies an area of 5.3 hectares and contains about 2,300,000 perfectly squared stone-blocks, some of which weigh over 15 tons. Scholars have spilled rivers of ink trying to imagine how peoples who had just emerged from the Neolithic, such as the ancient Egyptians, could have built the grandiose pyramids that distinguish them. With what engineering techniques could they have cut, squared, transported and placed enormous boulders weighing tens of tons with extreme precision? If 2,300,000 blocks of stone were calculated in the Great Pyramid of Giza, then Cheops would have had to organize a grandiose construction company, capable of laying a block of stone every four minutes, twenty-four hours a day, for thirty years in a row (such was the average life then) so that upon his death he could accommodate his semi-divine body using exclusively ropes, pulleys, logs, inclined planes and stone equipment.
All these questions, which dominated the culture of the second half of the twentieth century, began, in the nineties, to crumble in the face of more daring theories, supported by non-ignorable evidence, which moved the dating of the Egyptian pyramids on the Giza plateau from four thousand years ago at least ten thousand years ago while the Sphinx appears to be 10,500 years old.
Here it is only noted that Cheops' body was never found. Even the pyramids of Chefren and Menkaure did not contain the bodies of the pharaohs.
Egyptologists, speculating on the Great Pyramid, have found many particularities of a mathematical-geometric nature, and have credited the ancient Egyptians of 2500 BC with great mathematical-astronomical knowledge, such as the exact measurement of the Earth, its weight and its density, the distance Earth-Sun, the duration of the solar year, knowledge of the Greek. But in reality Egyptian mathematics could not have achieved that much, and their knowledge of geometry was of a "practical" nature, sufficient only to re-establish the boundaries of cultivations after the Nile floods, and their "astronomy" was, more than anything, similar to "astrology".
That the Egyptians were ultimately not as advanced as the pyramids, mistakenly attributed to them, might lead one to believe, can be deduced from the Pharaonic mummies and the valuable funerary objects: the Egyptians had discovered part of the power of the pyramid, that of preserve the dead bodies for a long time, and they also used substances that (poorly) preserved the dead bodies of sovereigns or high dignitaries, almost as if they wanted to underline the power of the pyramid, but nothing more. Their conceptions of science and medicine are placed according to the standards of the Neolithic or Bronze Age: they had, for example, no awareness of the function of the brain, or any other "inventions", such as the alleged copper-iron batteries (the Baghdad batteries), which if they were ever invented by them, are to be seen as random and unconscious objects whose use seems to have been limited to electroplating (the gilding of metals), or referring to these mysterious civilizations or divinities, such as the equally mysterious layers of mica which fill the rock of some buildings in the Mayan city of Teotihuacàn.
Thus, many questions remain which official science cannot answer: can the mathematical-astronomical peculiarities in the architecture of the pyramids be attributed to the historical Egyptians of the 2nd millennium BC despite their rather limited mathematics? And is the cult of the solar divinity, typical of technically advanced peoples, despite its countless variations, typical of a people devoted to magic and superstitions such as the Egyptians? If we consider the new dating of the pyramids (the oldest ones in the Giza plateau) and the sphinx, don't we come to call into question the mythical civilization of Atlantis, which disappeared, according to legend, more than 10,000 years ago? So the history of ancient Egypt is still to be discovered...
The first mystery is the fact that the interior of these great pyramids contains no hieroglyphs or drawings, unlike those of Nefertari or Tutankhamun. In short, the doubt arises whether in reality the pyramids of the Giza plateau did not originally function as royal tombs.
Hancock and Bauval found that the layout of the pyramids corresponds to that of some stars in the constellation of Orion, sacred to the Egyptians, who identified it with the home of Osiris.
Perhaps then the pyramids were not tombs, but buildings of worship. From these findings, in the sixties, some exciting pages of Egyptology were written such as the study of the alignment of the ventilation duct of the "King's Chamber" with Zeta Orionis while the southern duct pointed to Sirius, the star of Isis, in the position in which these stars must have been located in 10,450 BC.
Does the Giza plateau therefore represent a kind of stellar clock that marks the era of Osiris, the era of the "first time"? An era that officially belongs to myth, the "golden age" of Greek mythology. Another famous monument of the Giza plateau, the Sphinx, seems to confirm this date from recent paleoclimatology studies. But who, in 10,500 BC built these imposing message-monuments?
