KoG, Vol. 21 No. 21, 2017.
Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.31896/k.21.1
Survey Analysis of the Great Pyramid
Bojan Janjanin
; Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Jelena Beban-Brkić
; Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The topic of this paper is an analysis of the survey of Cheops pyramid (also known as the Great pyramid), the most signicant of the three pyramids of the Giza complex, the archeological site on the plateau of Giza, situated on the periphery of Cairo. It is assumed that Cheops as well as Khafre and Menkaure pyramids were built around 2686-2181 BC, known in the history as the Old Kingdom of Egypt. Our goal was to collect data about geodetic survey of Cheops pyramid and analyze it. Along with that, several hypotheses related to the construction method of the pyramid and possible purposes of the construction itself are described. When analyzing the survey, two numbers, also called ˝two treasures of geometry", are constantly appearing, these are the number \pi (π) and the Golden ratio or golden number \fi (φ). One of the chapters is dedicated to these numbers.
Keywords
geodetic survey; analysis of collected data; Ludolph's constant; Golden ratio
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192235
URI
Publication date:
9.1.2018.
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