Mathematical Encoding in Pre-historic Architecture: Case Study of the Pyramid of Cheops | ||
| Arts and Architecture Journal | ||
| Volume 2, Issue 1, June 2021, Pages 79-91 PDF (803.4 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/aaj.2021.234867 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Fouad A. Ghoussayni; Amer Ali | ||
| School of the Built Environment and Architecture London, United Kingdom | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Justifying the geometric representation of the Pyramid of Cheops of Giza in Egypt is of great concern to studies on the prehistoric intelligence of a great civilization that used to inhabit the ancient world. This research aimed to define the encoded values of the Pyramid of Cheops in its inter-relation with depicting the Pyramid’s volume derived from its building block arrangement without imposing the conventional studies made elsewhere. We may conclude that construction of the Pyramid of Cheops of Giza in Egypt relates to the graphical representation of any plane of its horizontal building blocks with respect to the distribution of the blocks and the general depiction of the Pyramid’s form. (Ghoussayni, Findings of Patterns in Prehistoric Architecture, 2018) One Sentence Summary: The study contributes a sequence of findings based on a simple justification for the geometry of the Pyramid of Cheops, derived from the patterns of its building blocks and their distribution, from the apex down, as a direct indicator on the graphical representation of the main section of the Pyramid of Cheops of Giza. Main Text: ‘The term ‘‘true’’ pyramid is used to differentiate the true ancient Egyptian pyramids from other more common step pyramids, found all over the world. The fact [is] that the Egyptian pyramids are the only true pyramids in the world culminating in an Apex point 1’ (Ole Jørgen Bryn, 2010). | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Mathematical Encoding; historic Architecture; Pyramid; Cheops | ||
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