A Passion for Pyramids - Part I

all its dimensions when the outer casing was lost, its basic measurements remain perfectly square. The pyramid of Cheops is approximately 756 feet on each side and the area of the base covers the equivalent of 13 acres. The height of The Great Pyramid is over 481 feet and the slope of each side is approximately 552 feet. It is the second largest “building” made entirely of stone. Its size is exceeded only by the Tower of Ulm Cathedral. And, just think, the ancient Egyptian builders did it all without so much as a tape measure of a level.

But, The Great Pyramid’s measurements aren’t its only amazing feature. The pyramid also boasts an alignment with certain stars in the ancient sky. Many wonder how this precise alignment could have been achieved over 45 centuries ago. Others believe this is where the extraterrestrial element comes in.

Little Green Men?
Within the pyramid, in both the king’s chamber and the queen’s chamber, are shafts leading upward and reaching all the way to the exterior sides of the pyramid. The shafts are not large enough to have accommodated a person, so that lets out access tunnel as a possible function of these tunnels. Archaeologists have also proposed the idea that the shafts were for “ventilation”. But being that the function of this pyramid was a tomb, that notion has also been pretty much ruled out. Today, the most common theory promotes the idea that the shafts were intended to give the pharaoh and his queen better access to the stars as they rose from the dead and into the afterlife. The stars were often said to “guide” people into the afterlife, perhaps they served that purpose for Cheops and his queen.

Considering the alignment of the shafts with the stars, this seems the most likely theory. The southern shaft, leading from the king’s chamber, points to the location Orion’s Belt would have occupied in the ancient night sky. The southern shaft leading from the queen’s chamber lines up exactly with the position the star, Sirius, would have taken in the sky at the same time. Strange, but true. Somehow, the Egyptian builders were able to plan these shafts during construction of the pyramid to line up perfectly with important landmarks in their sky. Many argue this kind of precision would have been impossible for the Egyptians to carry off.

Additional experts argue that the arrangement of the pyramids on

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