Is THEM Guilty of Shirk? - Dr. Wesley Muhammad

In the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow there is the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, dated
to the 12th Dynasty (1850 BCE). This papyrus proves the advanced mathematical skill of the Ancient
Egyptians. Two thousand years before the Greek mathematician Archimedes (d. ca. 212 BCE), the
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that the Egyptians actually taught the Greeks geometry. V.V. Struve, in his Mathematischern Papyrus des
Staatlichen Museums der Schönen Künste in Moskau (1930) observes:
―The Papyrus of Moscow, which gives us, among many others, the proof that a famous discovery
by Archimedes (i.e. surface of an ellipse) has to be credited to the Egyptians, confirms in the
most striking manner the statements of Greek writers on the mathematical knowledge of the
Egyptian scholars. We therefore no longer have any reason to reject the affirmations of the
Greek writers according to whom the Egyptians were the masters of the Greeks in geometry…it
is again a great discovery attributed to Democritus (i.e. function of the brain) that will have to be
pushed back fourteen hundred years before the birth of its presumed inventor. These new
facts…force us into a radical review of our persistent value judgment held up to this moment
about Egyptian knowledge. A problem like that of the research on the brain‘s function or that
[of the determination] of the surface of the sphere …herby prove that the Egyptian people as
well as the Greek people strove to acquire a pure intellectual vision of the universe.‖
A ―pure intellectual vision of the universe‖ was indeed in the possession of the ancient Egyptians, popular
misconceptions notwithstanding. But Ancient Egyptian science not only outshined later Greek and other
contemporary sciences, it also baffles modern science and mathematics.
The Great Pyramid of Giza stands 483 ft high and is made of 2.3 million blocks of limestone and granite
carved with such extreme proficiency and accuracy that modern science finds it inexplicable. The
building techniques were as accurate as the best we have today. The builders clearly knew and used such
modern techniques as trepanning (for drilling holes). But this suggests the use of ultrasonic machinery and
thus ―clearly points to manufacturing methods that involved the use of machinery such as lathes, milling
machines, ultrasonic drilling machines, and high-speed saws.‖ System‘s of measurement had to equal
today‘s. The transcendental number pi (3.14), which is fundamental to advanced mathematics and
supposedly discovered in the 3 rd cent BCE by Archimedes, was already incorporated into the structure of
the Great Pyramid thousands of years earlier: the ratio between its original height (481.3949 ft.) and
perimeter (3023.16 ft.) equals the ratio between the radius and circumference of a circle: 2pi. Marshall
Payn, in his article ―The Case for Advanced Technology in the Great Pyramid,‖ (Forbidden History,
270) notes:
―The Kufu (Cheops) pyramid defies how we depict ancient technology. Over two million
limestone blocks rise to the height of a forty-story building. Each baseline exceeds two and a half
football fields. Standing on top, an archer cannot clear the base with an arrow. All this comes
from what was supposedly an agrarian society, forty-five hundred years ago. And that‘s not all.
The precision and craftsmanship surpass our modern understanding. Occupying an area of
thirteen acres, the entire bedrock base has been carved to less than an inch out of level. It is
oriented within a tiny fraction of a degree from the cardinal points. Outer casing stones and
inner granite blocks fit with such precision that a razor blade cannot be inserted between them.
Blocks weighing seventy tons (about what a railroad locomotive weighs) have been lifted to the
height of a ten-story building and mated to the next block with wondrous precision. How did
they do these things? We don‘t know…Where did the technology come from? We have no