Some Observations on the Layout of the Khufu and Khafre Pyramids

Abstract

achieved by the ancient builders. The question is all the more puzzling in that the accurate layout of the pyramid is a kind of ' 'chicken and the eggJ problem. The survey of a true square oriented to the meridian is most accurately done on a leveled surface, but where the surface is to be finely leveled depends on the exact position of the true square. This at least was the case with the two largest Giza pyramids, for the fine leveling which is so admired was not carried out over the entire area to be occupied by the pyramid base, but only as a narrow panel which would receive the lowest course of the