Pyramid thriller has been solved

One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, is visited by millions of tourists every year. Many scientists, archaeologists, and history fans try to figure out the answer to the question: how was the Great Pyramid built? The good news is, the mystery has finally been solved. Bright Side is going to tell you who made the Pyramid of Giza as great as we know it and how they managed to do it.

Your history teacher back at school must have told you the prevailing theory of how the Great Pyramid was built. Hundreds of ancient Egyptians carried huge blocks of limestone and granite to Giza. They built a construction which was great indeed. The Pyramid of Khufu remained the tallest structure on earth made by humans for over 3,800 years. It was composed of 2.3 million stone blocks put together so precisely that a human hair could not pass through the adjoining blocks. Impressive, huh? More than that, the Great Pyramid was originally covered with highly polished limestone which reflected the sunlight and made it shine like a star. The light was so strong it could be seen from the moon. Sadly, the casing stones are no longer there because of an earthquake that happened in the 14th century. We can only imagine how beautiful it must have been.

The pyramid was also unique because it had inner passages going both up and down, unlike the other pyramids. What else makes it stand out? It is the only eight-sided pyramid in Egypt. It aligned with the stars in Orion's belt and pointed to the pole star Alpha Draconis. Finally, it is the most accurately aligned construction ever created, facing true north. It is exactly at the center of the landmass of our planet. The parallels and meridians that cross the most land only meet in two places on earth. One of them is in the deep blue ocean, the other one is where the Great Pyramid is. What a great place to build something monumental, isn't it? All this proves how skilled the people must have been to be able to build it.

Some scientists who lived centuries after them and some people today still refuse to believe the ancient civilizations were that smart and talented. So, the Great Pyramid has given birth to many theories on how and for what it was constructed. You heard some people believe it was done with the help of aliens. After all, many great constructions on Earth like Stonehenge, Tōdai-ji, and Easter Island's figures looked too good or too genius for their time, so someone just decided they must have come from a different planet.

Medieval Europeans believed that the Great Pyramid was built to store grain, while a British publisher named John Taylor claimed that the pyramid was built by Noah himself. An astronomer named Charles Piazzi Smyth later studied the pyramid and concluded that it could be read as a history book of both the past and the future of the earth. Smyth believed that the Grand Gallery marked the birth and crucifixion of Jesus and ended at a point between 1881 and 1911 pyramid inches, which he believed to be the years of the Great Tribulation before the second coming of Christ.

Some scientists denied the holy origins of the pyramid altogether. In 1884, a paper was presented at a conference in Philadelphia. It said the pyramids were originally hills. Those hills were used as quarries to get enough stone for edifices. As time passed, the hills were cut into pyramids.

Probably one of the most interesting theories of the pyramid's construction involved levitation. Not the Wingardium Leviosa one used by Harry Potter and others in the magical world, but a different kind of levitation, the one that has to do with the power of the human mind and sound vibration. Acoustic levitation helped stone blocks defy gravity and move over the ground.