The mathematics encoded in the Great Pyramid pointed to a level of precision that shouldn’t have existed in the ancient world. Its original height and base, measured in royal cubits, produced the ...

So what's so great about the Great Pyramid? Lots of stuff, like its amazing shape and dimensions. Click on the pyramid to find out more. Build a scale model of the Great Pyramid and compare it to ...

MISSION VIEJO – The first pyramid is just a piece of paper folded into itself. Nothing special. But 4,096 pyramids later, and Jonathan Bromberg’s classes have a work of art and a 3-D math lesson.

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