How the Search Began

There was something exceedingly strange about the Great Pyramid when it became known in the Western World. It was presumably built as a tomb but nothing was found inside when it was first entered but bare walls and a mysterious stone box. No mummy of a pharaoh was discovered and nor were there any of the eagerly expected artwork and tomb-furniture. It was unlikely therefore that a pharaoh’s mummy had ever rested in one its chambers. Then there was something else. No pharaoh has ever been found buried inside any of the pyramids of Egypt and their final resting-places were invariably to be found in the Valley of the Kings. As a result, it was reasonable to surmise that the original pyramid (as opposed to the desecrated stones seen today) always had some other purpose. If that were correct then it would not be in compliance with the official line emanating from Egyptologists and others, the museums and institutions, that this extraordinary structure was a tomb, an archaeologist’s viewpoint based on objects that can be seen and touched, otherwise known as artifacts. That was an accident of history and it probably began when Napoleon invaded Egypt and became the first Egyptologist, the result of finding vast hoards of amazing objects littered about the country and until then largely forgotten. The artifacts and pyramids were seen as monolithic but they were artifacts just the same. The Great Pyramid was the exception.



Over the years I have come to believe that the Great Pyramid was based on a highly complex design which would show that it was derived through scientific processes that would call into question its current dating and origins to around 2500 BC. It is probable that it was dated to fit vacancies in the line of pharaohs, assuming that a particular pharaoh had built it. The pharaoh who best suited that vacancy was Khufu, but there was no proof that this was true. An enormous amount of misinformation that has been put about for centuries ensuring the belief that it was built by Khufu (Cheops to the Greeks) some 5000 years ago. It seemed more likely that he had adopted this pyramid in which case it existed before his time. If that was true then the nature of its origins had never been explained.

That viewpoint had put me on a collision course with the experts who have insisted with some slight qualification, that the pyramid had not been planned. There was a good reason behind this claim. If the pyramid had not been accurately planned it would comply with all of the other pyramids of Egypt that had not been accurately planned. The obvious result would be that the Great Pyramid would not stand out as something unique. If it were not unique it would be easier to attribute it to a pharaoh and the more so if the technical capabilities of any such pharaoh were in doubt. Were the experts aware of this anomaly? Egyptologists have named the three pyramids on the Giza Plateau, of which the Great Pyramid was one, with pharaohs of the same dynasty and period. How could it then be unique if it was one of three? Was that a sleight of hand intended to distract from the obvious?

The Great Pyramid was originally orientated on the points of the compass. It was not alone in this respect because the other pyramids on the Giza Plateau are oriented in this way and the question was why? What would a northerly to southerly direction have to do with the burial of a body? There have been many fanciful suggestions in an attempt to explain this in the context of burial. The pharaoh’s soul would fly away into the sky in a particular direction related with the cosmos because his tomb faced due north, but what if the reason for this orientation was technological and could be proven by numbers? What if the pyramid was based on number, the First Pyramid of Egypt, let alone the first pyramid on the Giza Plateau? Could those numbers be re-discovered? What form would they have taken? Did they still exist? There must have been a purpose, a practical reason for the Great Pyramid’s existence, and it would inevitably evolve around things unseeable and untouchable, extremely difficult to reveal unless by diagrams and imagination.



Acting on a hunch that the secret would have to be based on lines and angles, I decided to see if any of this could be true. I knew that to say that the Great Pyramid ‘was geometrical’ was also to say that it ‘was mathematical’ implying that those who had created it also knew about numbers. If the builders lived at least 5000 years ago and knew of mathematical processes known only since the 17th century, they would appear to be extremely far-fetched. Even so, if the numbers did exist and had been used to create some fantastic geometry then where would they be found and how would they have manifested themselves? The idea was certainly worth investigating and after many years of study and blind alleys I still find it hard to believe what actually emerged. It was beyond comprehension. The numbers were there but they were in conflict with the accepted rules of mathematical evolution. They would be unacceptable to the authorities, who would do all they could to ridicule such a proposition. It would amount to heresy on the lines of the flat earth society. Nonetheless, it soon became clear that it would be impossible to find them without recourse to a modern-day pocket calculator. Such a thing had not existed in the Pyramid Age, but with answers running into many places of decimals, the ancients either had one or they calculated with the hand of God.

Where were these numbers? They had to be hidden within the stones but many of the most important are missing. Stones that might have survived the ravages of time and vandalism would probably have done so in terms of levels, that is, in vertical distances above a fixed point at ground level on the Giza Plateau. Incredibly, there is such a fixed point at ground level, and once again, it made the pyramid unique. A perfectly level stone plinth exists at the Great Pyramid surrounding it on its base perimeter built to act as the required fixed point, or datum. No other pyramid possesses anything like it and the reason why was because it was special. The Egyptologists who tried to move away from this possibility had identified it as a ‘pavement’. When I learned about this so-called ‘pavement’ I suspected that my hunch was correct. The term was misleading, implying that the plinth was for ‘walking on’ rather than ‘measuring from’. This pavement could not be for foot traffic around a perimeter while going nowhere. That notion was ridiculous. It was a datum, but if that were so then the missing numbers would be found rising from it. Other distances and numbers with angles of slope would appear as well. I knew they were there but where to start? I had to discover what was there. This could not be done from general reference works, but specifically, and accurately. That would require a professional survey with the details that could only be recorded on very large-scale drawings. Did such drawings exist? I knew that it would be virtually impossible to carry out such a survey myself and any permission would be refused, considering my suspect agenda. The hunt was on to find such drawings and they eventually came available via my local library in the form of an impressive folder tied up with ribbons.

Inside this folder were the needed drawings, the result of a very detailed survey undertaken at the pyramid in 1965 by a group of Italian engineers. They showed the pyramid interior, the chambers, the corridors, the pavement, the angles and the distances, plans and sections, all of which were dimensioned and without ambiguity. Without that survey it would have been impossible to obtain any opinion whatsoever of what might or might not have once existed at the pyramid. With the survey, it was possible. These drawings would form a solid basis of evidence for discoveries made, and they would be independently verifiable on demand. That would be a very far cry from mere opinions given in authority based on nothing more than that same authority. I was already trained in survey and architecture. I knew about lines and angles and I knew that if anything material existed here, in whatever form, I now stood a very good chance of finding it. If the numbers did still exist within the stones, then when they were found, I fully expected that they would make absolute sense. They did!

The next thing to discover was also important. What unit of measure had the builders used? The survey was done in metres. I already knew that the French Metre was devised in the 17th century and it could not therefore have existed when the pyramid was built. The unit had to convert from metres to feet and from feet to the unit used. Many books have been written on the subject of the ‘pyramid unit’ with many different kinds of unit considered but the answer was amazingly simple if the right assumptions were made. With the unit known, it would then be possible to know the original design distances. The dimensions and heights above ground, taken off the datum, would all appear as revelations, making it possible to interpret their meaning simply by their value imbued with messages spanning unimaginable aeons of time. Now I would discover how complex they were. I knew then that this pyramid certainly was unique. No other Pyramid of the Nile compared with it, or even came close.

Why was it called great? Who first called it great? Why were there two chambers one above the other, rather than just one? Why was the lower chamber located precisely on the pyramid centreline? Why was the upper chamber placed offset to the south of centre? Why were there four shafts rising from the two chambers when no other pyramid had any shafts whatsoever? What was the purpose behind these so-called shafts? The lower two had been built closed at both ends. What was the reason for that? It was obviously not to transmit anything. The upper chamber floor area was in an exact double square. Was it a geometrical figure? One researcher had claimed that the original Great Pyramid was never a pyramid at all but a truncated pyramid, one that was missing its tip. The pyramid has a flat summit that can still be seen to this day. It was, and still is, missing its tip! Why would anyone build a pyramid without a tip? The reason was that another smaller pyramid had once been placed at the pinnacle creating a full pyramid with a truncated pyramid below for reasons of mathematics and geometry. The ancients had not measured the angles in degrees but in tangents. Anyone trying to interpret the pyramid by using degrees would get nowhere. The ancients knew that they could not calculate distances with accuracy on a 90-degree triangle without using these tangents. Any pyramid is a geometrical shape. That was another starting point. The further I delved, the more extraordinary were the answers, and they had nothing to do with tombs. The numbers explained why the Great Pyramid was always empty and was never intended to contain anything. It was a template in stone for something more amazing. My investigation had begun on what might have seemed a wild and outrageous assumption but I believed that if the numbers were true, this incredible structure would support them, but if they were false, the pyramid would refute them. That is exactly how it transpired.

This account will show by the means of computer-generated drawings, how the Great Pyramid was planned, how the geometry was based on triangles, squares, and double squares, and how they harmoniously co-ordinated into a fantastic whole. They would then make sense of everything known at the Great Pyramid. They would show how it was offered to The Gods and to dimensions reflecting their time-honoured numbers of identity. Everything was there for a purpose. Nothing was wasted or superfluous. All was hidden in the reason why it was a certain height, why it sloped at a certain angle, and why the complex interior was where it was in the sizes it was, an unbelievable monument with supernatural powers from places and times unknown. I would be looking into the minds of those who lived thousands of years ago while seeing again the fabulous things that they had also seen.

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