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THE SECRET OF THE PYRAMID 59<br />
conis, the polar star of that time. But the possibility exists that<br />
both these galleries could have been used similarly to sight two<br />
other stars separated by the same celestial angle several thousand<br />
years before.<br />
Sir Gaston Maspero, director of the French archaeological mission<br />
in Egypt in the i88os, found a curious hieroglyph in inscriptions<br />
around Sakkara. It showed a truncated pyramid with an<br />
obelisk on top of it supporting the solar disk. At first Maspero had<br />
no explanation for it. Later on, the conclusion was made that it<br />
showed the unfinished great Pyramid of Cheops at the level<br />
where the ascending gallery terminates. The Maspero hieroglyph<br />
is<br />
an indication that the work on the pyramid was interrupted<br />
for a long time at its half height.<br />
When the Great Pyramid was at halfway mark, the surface of<br />
the platform was one quarter of the surface of its<br />
base and the<br />
volume of the pyramid to be finished was one eighth of the<br />
whole volume. The finished part therefore was seven eighths of<br />
18 million cubic cubits, or 15.75 million cubic cubits. When you<br />
translate this latter volume into our metric system, it equals 2,268<br />
million cubic decimeters and 2,268 milHon is<br />
the exact value of<br />
the Nineveh Constant. We must add here that the ancient Egyptians<br />
were quite familiar with the metric system. In the same<br />
region of Sakkara where the hieroglyph of the truncated pyramid<br />
was found, archaeologists have gathered metric standards used<br />
by ancient Egyptians. Once more we find the Great Constant but<br />
expressed in cubic decimeters. Coincidence? A coincidence is<br />
possible, of course, but I have seen so many of these coincidences<br />
that I do not believe in them any more. And then there<br />
was the discovery that the length of the granite cofiFer, which is<br />
not a coflBn but a standard of measure placed in the king's chamber<br />
inside the Great Pyramid, is exactly 2,268 millimeters and<br />
that the total volume of the pyramid in cubic cubits multiplied<br />
by the historically sacred number 126 again gives us the number<br />
of the Great Constant: 2,268 million.<br />
It seems that for the Egyptians, too, this number had a sacred<br />
meaning, which could mean that in different forms the Nineveh<br />
Constant was known to the entire ancient world and that it was<br />
used for thousands of years until our Sacred Mother the Church<br />
systematically destroyed all traces of earlier civilizations. More-
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