Pyramid Radiocarbon Dating Project In 1986, Edgar Cayce's organization, the Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE) funded a study to be directed by Mark Lehner, to radiocarbon date organic material that was used in the mortar of the core masonry blocks of the Great Pyramid. While the results weren't what ARE had hoped for (namely in the 10,500BC era) they were still significantly earlier than conventional Egyptology had dated them. The dates for the Great Pyramid range from 3809BC to 2869BC. The older date being some 1300 years before Khufu. This begs the question how could cartouches with the name Khufu exist in the Pyramid 1300 years before he existed? Even the "average" date of the samples is some 400 years older than conventional thinking. How can Khufu's name exist 400 years before the pharoah exists? Either the chronology is wrong or the cartouches are not authentic or the cartouche means something other than the name for a 4th Dynasty Pharaoh. Egyptologist's dismiss these older dates with the explanation that the Egyptians must have used "old wood". Of course when the dates agree with conventional theories, the wood seems fine.
I'm also still not clear as to how "bits of wood and reed can be found embedded in the core work"? If a fire was built to heat the gypsum how did the "bits of wood and reed" (not ashes) travel above the fire and end up in the gypsum? Meanwhile certain aspects of radiocarbon's dating accuracy is being called into question.
The Mir Cubit
While the Edgar Cayce construction date cannot be scientifically proven yet, at least Robert Schoch's conclusions about the Sphinx may have put Cayce in the same ballpark. We can test other points in his readings on ancient Egypt to at least see if they are accurate. In one of his readings (281-25) he describes a "Temple Beautiful" that was built in Egypt shortly before the Great Pyramid. Cayce, in describing the dimensions of this temple, uses the term:
...cubits (twenty seven and one-half inches was a cubit then, or a mir then)
He doesn't say this unit of measure was used in the Great Pyramid but implies that it was a general measure of length in usage at that time. Since we don't know with what level of precision Cayce was talking about when he said "27 and 1/2 inches" equals a mir cubit we can assume this was a close approximation or rounding off of an exact distance. If you make a mir cubit 27.483 inches instead of 27.5 inches some very interesting numbers start to appear within the Great Pyramid dimensions. For instance, the numbers 1,2 and 3 start appearing all over the place. The average length of a base side becomes 330 mir cubits (Cole survey13). The perimeter of the base is 1320 mir cubits. The original height of the pyramid is 210 mir cubits. This is the only height measurement where the number of probable original courses (210 courses) equals the original height . This length also precisely fits the King's Chamber dimensions at 7.5 x 15 cubits. The Grand Gallery length to the Big Step is 66 cubits long. From the Big Step to the opening to the King's Chamber is 12 cubits. The length of the Descending Passage is 150 cubits. The height from the base of the Big Step to the apex is also 150 cubits. All these numbers will be discussed in deeper detail in the 1:43200 article. One can conclude, however that Cayce's historically unknown "mir cubit" has an astounding degree of accuracy when measuring the Great Pyramid. Whether this translates into accuracy for other aspects of ancient Egypt he gave readings on, remains to be seen.
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1 Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, The Holy Science, (Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1974), p. xiv.
2 William Fix, Pyramid Odyssey, (Urbanna, Virginia: Mercury Media, 1978), p.112-113.
3 Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., Voyages of the Pyramid Builders, (New York: Penguin Putnam, 2003), p. 18-19.
4 Ola Olsson, "The Rise of Neolithic Agriculture", Department of Economics, Goteborg University; 9/25/2001.
5 Ibid.
6 Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda: The Yogas and Other Works; Revised Edition, (New York: Ramakrishna- Vivekananda Center, Third Printing, 1984) p.592
7 Fix, op.cit. p. 112.
8 ibid. p.120.
9 ibid. p. 75-76.
10 ibid. p. 81
11 ibid. p. 83
12 ibid. p. 85
13Cole reported the following data for the length of the sides:
North
East
South
West
Average
230.253m= 329.8421 mir 230.391m= 330.0397 mir 230.454m= 330.1300 mir 230.357m= 329.9911 230.36325m= 330.000mir
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Illustrations
The Second Pyramid, p. 15
The Casing Stones, p. 13
King's Chamber Ceiling, p. 41
The Great Pyramid, p.35
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