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OK - here you go - the length of a royal cubit. It ain't consistent. Your math is based on it.

The 20.632 inch-long Egyptian royal cubit is universally regarded as the standard used for the Great Pyramid of Giza, bad try, just ask Paul H, if he ever responds.

Not universal at all. You dodged this in the Giza thread (where it would actually belong) - lets see if bringing it here makes it easier for you.

oldarchystudent wrote:Here's some more confusion over the Royal Cubit.

GV - on your website you give the length as 20.63 inches:

"royal cubits" which are 20.63 inches each

The Catholic Planet site says 20.61 inches


http://www.catholicplanet.com/Tabernacl ... -cubit.htm

1 royal Egyptian cubit = 20.610 inches or 523.5 millimeters

The tourim site I mentioned earlier says

The principal unit of measurement in ancient Egypt was the royal cubit, a length we know to have been 52.4 cm

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/measures.htm

In short there doesn't seem to be an exact definition of a royal cubit - maybe it did change with successive kings - measured perhaps when they reached adulthood?

And this....

oldarchystudent wrote:http://www.ncsli.org/misc/cubit.cfm

Now this is interesting because of this quote:

The "Royal Egyptian Cubit" was decreed to be equal to the length of the forearm from the bent elbow to the tip of the extended middle finger plus the width of the palm of the hand of the Pharaoh or King ruling at that time

If so there was no standardized measurement from one king's rule to the next.

I'm talking about the GP, the one with a half a nautical mile base perimeter length (no coincidence), it's the royal cubit noted by Petrie, and accepted by all, the kings chamber is 20 royal cubits x 10 royal cubits, and the base sides of the GP are 440 royal cubits, that one, Oas, get with the program.

Other royal cubit lengths came along, but the 20.632 inch-long one is the only one derived from astronomy, it's explained in article #2 at www.IceAgeCivilizations.com, the one you found no flaw in.

I found no flaw in? Where do you get these strange ideas? A while ago you said I endorse your claims.

There is no agreement on what a royal cubit is. You are guessing at one interpretation of what it is. The basis for your assertions is not verifieable.

Oas, you should write a book about how the 20.632 inch-long ancient Egyptian royal cubit is not the standard which was used to design the GP, no one has ever proposed that before, you'd be a real maverick and make lots of money.

Dr. Schoch has posted a preliminary report in "The Bosnian Pyramid Phenomenon By Robert M. Schoch, Boston University" at

schoch definantly was not kind to Os. i wonder if this will finalkly put an end to the massacreof the hill and allow real archaeologists preserve what is left?

Genesis Veracity wrote:I'm talking about the GP, the one with a half a nautical mile base perimeter length.

A nautical mile is 6076 feet.

According to Nova http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/geometry/base.html

- the base length of the Great Pyramid is 756 feet.

- 4 sides to a pyramid = 3024 feet

- 6076 / 2 = 3038

You are off, wouldn't you say?

Genesis Veracity wrote:Oas, you should write a book about how the 20.632 inch-long ancient Egyptian royal cubit is not the standard which was used to design the GP, no one has ever proposed that before, you'd be a real maverick and make lots of money.

I don't have to write a book - check the links I provided.

archaeologist wrote:

Dr. Schoch has posted a preliminary report in "The Bosnian Pyramid Phenomenon By Robert M. Schoch, Boston University" at

schoch definantly was not kind to Os. i wonder if this will finalkly put an end to the massacreof the hill and allow real archaeologists preserve what is left?

I hope so - there are some legitimate sites there

An accuracy of within .5% with a simple mechanical device to measure the earth is pretty good, wouldn't you say?

Genesis Veracity wrote:Oas, you should write a book about how the 20.632 inch-long ancient Egyptian royal cubit is not the standard which was used to design the GP, no one has ever proposed that before, you'd be a real maverick and make lots of money.

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But Oas, no one has ever proposed that about the Great Pyramid of Giza, not even at your great links, you'll make millions!

Genesis Veracity wrote:An accuracy of within .5% with a simple mechanical device to measure the earth is pretty good, wouldn't you say?

Boy - I wish I would have had you for math in highschool. With a 5% gift on every question I would have aced it.

This is your math, not mine, and it's wrong.