by Iva Greene, Natural News:
Independent researcher Sefy Levy published a paper in August on the preprint servers SSRN and Zenodo arguing that the exterior measurements of the Great Pyramid of Giza form a deliberate numerical system encoding astronomical cycles, mathematical constants and an ancestral origin story.
The paper has not undergone independent peer review, according to the Daily Mail, which first reported the claims. Mainstream Egyptology regards the Great Pyramid as a funerary monument built for the pharaoh Khufu roughly 4,500 years ago.
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Levy’s paper, titled in its conclusion with the line “The pyramid is not a container for knowledge. It is the knowledge, made stone,” offers a different interpretation. He wrote in the paper: “The pyramid was not built to last forever because it contained something valuable. It was built to last forever because it was something valuable.”
Background on the Great Pyramid and Levy’s Claim
The Great Pyramid’s empty granite sarcophagus, mortuary complex and royal cemetery support its function as a tomb, though they do not prove Khufu was buried there, according to the Mail. No ancient text states that the pyramid’s dimensions encode astronomy.
Levy argued that careful measurements of the monument’s height, base, sloping sides and overall shape produce matches with the cycles of the moon, the calendar and the planets visible to the naked eye. He claimed the proportions also yield figures resembling pi and the golden ratio. According to the paper, the builders divided key measurements using fractions employed by ancient Egyptian scribes.
The interpretation rests on a broader premise about Egyptian cosmology. Robert Bauval and Thomas G. Brophy noted in Black Genesis that the Egyptians tracked the rising of Sirius – particularly its heliacal rising – as a calendrical anchor. Lancelot Hogben documented in Astronomer Priest and Ancient Mariner that Egyptian temples at Karnak were aligned to solar solstices, with two facing sunset on midsummer day and one greeting midwinter sunrise.
Specific Numerical Matches Cited in the Paper
One simple calculation in the paper produces 27.5, a near match for the roughly 27.55-day interval between successive lunar perigees, when the moon reaches its closest point to Earth, according to the Mail. Another calculation produces exactly 70, which Levy linked to the roughly 70-day interval between the heliacal setting and rising of Sirius, when the star is hidden by the sun’s glare. Egyptian tradition also associated about 70 days with mummification.
Levy claimed other calculations come close to the repeating cycles of Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Mars. He also argued that the pyramid’s proportions produce figures resembling pi and the golden ratio. Together, the paper suggests the builders transformed the pyramid into a permanent stone record of their understanding of time, space and the heavens.
