It was natural for the pyramid of Menkaure to be placed in the same alignment with the previous two pyramids, but that did not happen it was a little further from them.
The third question – Why does the pyramid of Menkaure seem far from aligned with the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre? Why did Menkaure not take a cemetery as a terrace instead of the pyramid, as long as he fears the state’s economy is faltering and the people are bored?! The third pyramid is 65 meters high, which is still a huge miracle but compared to others, it is considered insignificant, just as you ride a large car and then park next to a giant truck.Īlthough the explanation is not convincing because Chepskaf, for example, Ibn Menkaure, took a cemetery consisting of a terrace of several stone rows, its height does not exceed 15 meters, and its cost is much lower than the pyramid.
etc.īut what is interesting is that the third pyramid is much smaller than theirs. The archaeologists gave us a nice reason for that: he built a pyramid much smaller than his parents because of the high cost incurred by the state to build the pyramid of cutting stones and workers. The pyramid of Khufu is the largest (146 meters long), followed by Khafre (136 meters). Why does the third pyramid of Menkaure seem small in size compared to the two neighbouring pyramids? Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure, and accordingly they understood three pyramids. The answer from Egyptologists is that the pyramids are the tombs of the kings of the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom, whose era was known as the era of the pyramid builders in the period approximately 2500 BC. The first question – why are there three pyramids in the picture? Perhaps you are joking and saying what a note he wondered why three pyramids in particular. Three questions raised his mind about the painting, three questions that passed thousands of before him and passed us every day. The painting represented the pyramids from a high perspective, about 2 km away, yet the pyramids seem very clear because of their largeness. The pyramids from an elevated perspective are approximately 2 km away, yet the pyramids seem very visible due to their massiveness. In one of his visits to Egypt, Robert stopped for a while to visit the Egyptian Museum, there was a painting Certain of the pyramids he wanted to see, and that was in 1983, that is, four years after reading Robert Temple’s book, Robert went and stopped in front of the painting, and kept looking at it. He graduated as an architect and became famous as a good engineer. Robert Bauval, a Belgian of Egyptian origin, was raised in Egypt until he was 12, then left with his parents to London. He concluded that Egypt, with its Nile and pyramids, is heaven’s image on Earth! (1) The outcome of this book was a detailed preoccupation of Robert Bauval that took more than a decade.įinally, he came up with a theory that revolutionized Egyptology. Temple (the author of the book) expressed the belief that this astronomical information possessed by the Dogons must have been passed down through thousands of years, that it had reached them from the ancient Egyptians, and that the investigation of this secret should be sought in the history of ancient Egypt. This ritual was a simulation of the movement of Sirius, which is one of the brightest stars in the sky and belongs to a group known as the Great Dog. The book talked about the beliefs of a tribe in Africa known as the “Dogon tribes”, who used to hold ritual ceremonies for thousands of years. It was a thrilling book that turned his life upside down. In 1979, while a civil engineer of Belgian origin, born in Alexandria, named Robert Bauval, was waiting at Heathrow Airport in London for the time of his plane to take off to go to his workplace in Sudan, he purchased a book entitled “The Sirius Mystery” written by Robert Temple, an investment of time awaiting solutions. The Orion’s belt and the true age of the pyramids