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Originally Posted by national geographic
Architects achieved an accurate pyramid shape by running ropes from the outer corners up to the planned summit, to make sure the stones were positioned correctly. And priests-astronomers helped choose the pyramids' sites and orientations, so that they would be on the appropriate axis in relation to sacred constellations.
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This explaines why the pyramid bases are so close to perfect squares.It also explaines why the angle of the pyramids are so close to that of orion's belt.
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Why is it that the great Pyramids of Giza, built in 3,000, are perfect, and still standing as tall as the day they were built? (Aside from the capstone and the polished stones, which were stripped by humans in the building of Cairo) The other Pyramids, which were supposedly built about 500 years later, all have shoddy masonry, and are crumbling down. An example of this is the famous 'bent' pyramid, which started out with the sides being built at one angle, then suddenly shifts in the middle to a shallower angle.
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it isn't still perfect because aproximitly 30 feet has fallen off the top since it was first built.and the bent pyramid was made 50 years before the pyramids in Giza.