The ancient Egyptian architecture and Pythagoras theory

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Lecturer at Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering, Al-Azhar University

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Since the creation of archaeology 1828, the rule that was applied was the rule of "August Mariette”; it was followed by the most of ancient archeology scientists, the rule says " if Egyptians knew their past, they were definitely take it from us “, which was the reason behind depriving Egyptians from knowing the depth and roots of their ancient past.
Over time, the ancient Egyptian civilization has confused many scientists and researchers with all of its mysteries, to the point that when a mystery is solved another one comes up with all of the secrets and mystery it can hold, also this civilization was the source of learning to many Greek philosophers such as Pythagoras and Euclid for a long time, they had come to Egypt and transferred its science and knowledge to their countries, those philosophers also founded a number of theories which is still recorded and known for their names till now.
By studying the ancient Egyptian documents, particularly Moscow document that is preserved now in Moscow museum of arts, this document date back to 1850 BC, at least before to birth of Pythagoras with 1280 year, this document founded for many mathematical theories, specially the sixth issue in this document, that discussed how to draw a rectangle, how to make two perpendicular sides where the angle between them is 90 degrees, and this exactly the same thing which helped Pythagoras in founding his theory that known for " the right angle triangle". all of this leads us to know how the buildings with accurate perpendicular sides was built in the ancient Egyptian Architecture, specially "Khufu pyramid" which still evidence on how the ancient Egyptians was great in using mathematical and engineering theories in their buildings.
All of this leads us to a conclusion that we have to be careful about the Greek philosophers theories and to revise it, especially for those philosophers who had come and studied in Egypt the go back to their countries, those philosophers founded a lot of theories which known for their names till now, their theories should be scrutinized carefully to see if it has an origin in our ancient Egyptian civilization, this could be done by studying what the ancient Egyptian left whether it was theories or buildings, and publish the results in conferences and scientific researches.

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