The three Giza pyramids, cased white with gold caps, rising from a tropical forest beside a flooded valley, seen from the air.

Giza at block scale · Version 1.0

Seked

The Giza plateau rebuilt from the survey, path traced in five eras from the First Time of 10,500 BCE to today. Every "encoded mathematics" claim about the pyramids is computed live from the measurement database, so you can see a claim and test it in the same place.

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The guided tour

The case for an older Giza, in ten stops across the plateau: the argument of West, Schoch, Bauval and Hancock that the plateau is far older than the record, put at its strongest, with the project's own measurements beside each step. About eight minutes; each stop moves the view and runs the eras for you.

  1. 1The case for an older GizaThe plateau runs back from today to 10,500 BCE, and the case is set out.
  2. 2Weathered by rainSchoch's geology: the Sphinx worn by rain, not wind.
  3. 3Megaliths from the Sphinx's own quarryHundred-tonne blocks from the Sphinx's ditch, faced later in granite.
  4. 4The lion faces the lionA head too small, and a lion facing the dawn of the Age of Leo.
  5. 5The sun in the horizon signThe midsummer sun sets between two pyramids: the horizon hieroglyph.
  6. 6Orion's belt on the groundBauval's correlation, with the belt at its lowest in 10,450 BCE.
  7. 7Shafts aimed at the starsFour shafts, four stars, and a monument to an older moment.
  8. 8The chamber under the rockAn unfinished chamber in the bedrock, and a passage aimed at the pole star.
  9. 9The shape of the EarthTrue north, pi, phi and the 1:43,200 scale of the Earth.
  10. 10A lost chapterThe Younger Dryas, Göbekli Tepe and a lost chapter of history.

Five eras, one plateau

The same stand, the same survey numbers, five moments. Today is the survey and Giza as built the conventional reconstruction. The two oldest eras follow Hancock, Bauval and Schoch's case that the plateau is far older than 2500 BCE, from the water-worn Sphinx enclosure to Orion's belt in 10,500 BCE, and draw it at its strongest.

The three pyramids, white and gold-capped, above tall grass and tropical trees.
Theorized

The First Time

c. 10,500 BCE. Polished casing and gold caps in a green Sahara, as the lost-civilisation reading has it.

The pyramids weathered and rain-streaked in a wooded valley.
Theorized

The long rains

c. 7000 BCE. The Sphinx enclosure worn by rain, Schoch's case for an older Sphinx.

The pyramids in fresh white limestone casing with small gilded caps over a desert plateau.
Reconstruction

Giza as built

c. 2500 BCE. The plateau as its Fourth Dynasty builders finished it, cased and capped, temples and causeways standing.

The pyramids stripped of most of their casing, with sand drifted around them.
Reconstruction

Stripped and buried

c. 1800 CE. The casing quarried away for Cairo, the Sphinx in sand to the chest.

The pyramids today, stepped core blocks with Khafre's casing remnant at the top.
Survey

Today

2026. The plateau as measured, with the modern city behind it from Open Buildings.

Explore

The walkthrough

Seventeen 360-degree stations, from the desert approach to the King's Chamber, each in every era it stands in. Take the guided tour, or drag to look, switch the era and step to the next station on your own.

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The films

The rollback from today to the First Time, the Sphinx's sequence from lion to excavation, and a flight up the approach as built.

Watch →

The sky alignments

Orion over the three pyramids, the lion facing Leo, the shafts reaching for their stars, each with its stars precessed by the sky engine and the size of its miss stated.

See the sky →
The claims dossierTwenty-two claims, from π in the profile to the Orion correlation, each with its residual, its tolerance and the free choices it needs. The realtime viewerThe first, browser-rendered model: orbit the plateau, toggle the claim overlays, run the sky. Needs a decent GPU. How it got hereMilestone renders, oldest first, from the first low-poly plateau to the path-traced eras. The sourceEvery measurement, claim, script and render recipe, on GitHub. Change a number and rebuild the lot. The shaft datesWhen each of the Great Pyramid's four shafts pointed at its star, and how far the date moves per arcminute of angle. The original planThe measurement sheet, the claims registry and the sky engine as they were first set out.

What keeps it honest

Claims tested
22
Within their own tolerance
14
Walkthrough stations
17
Eras
5