Egyptians Vs. the Greeks From: The Washington Post | Date: October 30, 1994 | Copyright 1994 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The disagreement between Joel Achenbach {Style, Oct. 14} and Edward Wetherhold {letters, Oct. 21} regarding the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes continues the assumption that the Greeks were first in mathematics. But thousands of years before the Greeks, the following measurements were incorporated in building the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, according to the book "New Light on the Great Pyramid" by David Webber and N. W. Hutchings:

"Measurements were made in the Hebrew cubit, whic...

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