The Genius of the Pharaoh Sneferu
Striving for independence
Stepped pyramids 1st appeared as generally flat-topped, mastaba-like ziggurats, built of adobe, in ancient Sumer, c4500. The technology is thought to have transferred to Egypt ~2650BCE where the first stone pyramid (known as Djoser’e pyramid) was built soon after. Less than 100yrs later, the Pharaoh Sneferu constructed his first (stepped) pyramid at Meidum. Remarkably, he then moved ~50km north to build the Bent and Red pyramids at Dahshur, before returning to Meidum to convert his 1st, stepped pyramid, into what was only the 2nd true pyramid.
Minor Pyramids
The possible role of minor pyramids in climate control?
The reportedly-growing threat of tornados across the central US states appears to closely match the removal of up to 20,000 (6m-9m) so-called “burial mounds”, by farmers around each of two historical sites. A study of these two sites reveals some interesting possibilities
Greatest Scientific Fraud
Was this the most serious Fraud in the History of Science?
In 1865, Astronomer Royal of Scotland, Charles “Piazzi” Smyth, published “Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid”, an instant best-seller that, for all the wrong reasons, was to radically change the course of history. It also, eventually, changed the laws of publishing and the rules of what counted as a ‘revised’ or ‘re-edited’ edition.