The Pyramid and the DC Map
New Hampshire Ave represents the left side of a triangle formed by connecting the corners of the pentagram in the DC map. The top point of this triangle is where New Hampshire crosses 16th Street and no streeet represents the right side. The base angles of the triangle are ~52 degrees like the Great Pyramid cross section. The map pentagram inscribes inside and defines an isoceles triangle identical to the GP cross section. Note how short and wide the pentagram is. Curiously, it is the Queen's Chamber (rather than the King's Chamber) that lies under the apex of the pyramid, since the QC is offset from the King's Chamber. Actually it is offset in two planes, as there is a two foot step in the passage to the QC from the Ascending Passage. Consider the Washington Monument and how it is likewise offset from the White House. Actually it is 371 feet east of the center line of 16th Street and 123 feet south of the center line of the Capitol Building, offset in two planes that is. The implication is that the map represents not only the pyramid cross section base angle, but also the elements inside the pyramid as well; beginning with the Washington Monument as the Queen's Chamber and the White House as the King's Chamber. Note that this does not 'work' well if the monumnent is not offset. If the WH is the KC and the monument is the QC then Potomac Avenue is the Descending Passage and Penn Ave is the Ascending Passage and Grand Gallery. Also, if the 'fit' between the map and the pyramid image is a good one, we should be able to overlay them on top of one another to produce a match. We begin with a map image. Above we highlight Scott Circle north of the WH and the junction of Penn and Potomac Ave's. Below we overlay the map with the pyramid cross section image matching Scott Circle with the peak of the relieving stones and the junction of the avenues with the junction of the Ascending and Descending Passages. Note that the Capitol appears to be north of it's ideal position. As I said, it apears as if the relieving stones have been represented in the map pyramid; does it not? Well the relieving stones were not discovered until 1837. Here is John Greaves 1646 image from his book Pyramidographia, which, as you can see shows neither the upper or lower chambers as these were not known of at the time. Richard Howard-Vyse used gun powder to blast his way to the upper chambers and gave us this image in 1839, the first modern depiction of the relieving stones. The shaft and the subterranean chamber were both excavated after Greaves was in Egypt. If we can accept the premise that the Washington DC map was designed so as to represent the cross section image of the Great Pyramid, and designed so as to represent features in the map that were (supposedly) not known of in 1792, several questions arise. The first being 'what was the source image for the map'?? The second is what is there that correlates to the subteranean chamber that would be under the Potomac? Lastly we would ask, what might features in the map tell us about elements in the pyramid that we still don't know about? If the map depicted the relieving stones that weren't discovered until 1837, then the map may contain clues to other pyramid facts! HOME

The Pyramid and the DC Map

New Hampshire Ave represents the left side of a triangle formed by connecting the corners of the pentagram in the DC map. The top point of this triangle is where New Hampshire crosses 16th Street and no streeet represents the right side. The base angles of the triangle are ~52 degrees like the Great Pyramid cross section. The map pentagram inscribes inside and defines an isoceles triangle identical to the GP cross section.

Note how short and wide the pentagram is.
Curiously, it is the Queen's Chamber (rather than the King's Chamber) that lies under the apex of the pyramid, since the QC is offset from the King's Chamber. Actually it is offset in two planes, as there is a two foot step in the passage to the QC from the Ascending Passage.

Consider the Washington Monument and how it is likewise offset from the White House. Actually it is 371 feet east of the center line of 16th Street and 123 feet south of the center line of the Capitol Building, offset in two planes that is.

The implication is that the map represents not only the pyramid cross section base angle, but also the elements inside the pyramid as well; beginning with the Washington Monument as the Queen's Chamber and the White House as the King's Chamber. Note that this does not 'work' well if the monumnent is not offset.

If the WH is the KC and the monument is the QC then Potomac Avenue is the Descending Passage and Penn Ave is the Ascending Passage and Grand Gallery. Also, if the 'fit' between the map and the pyramid image is a good one, we should be able to overlay them on top of one another to produce a match. We begin with a map image.

Above we highlight Scott Circle north of the WH and the junction of Penn and Potomac Ave's. Below we overlay the map with the pyramid cross section image matching Scott Circle with the peak of the relieving stones and the junction of the avenues with the junction of the Ascending and Descending Passages. Note that the Capitol appears to be north of it's ideal position.

As I said, it apears as if the relieving stones have been represented in the map pyramid; does it not? Well the relieving stones were not discovered until 1837. Here is John Greaves 1646 image from his book Pyramidographia, which, as you can see shows neither the upper or lower chambers as these were not known of at the time.

Richard Howard-Vyse used gun powder to blast his way to the upper chambers and gave us this image in 1839, the first modern depiction of the relieving stones. The shaft and the subterranean chamber were both excavated after Greaves was in Egypt.

If we can accept the premise that the Washington DC map was designed so as to represent the cross section image of the Great Pyramid, and designed so as to represent features in the map that were (supposedly) not known of in 1792, several questions arise. The first being 'what was the source image for the map'?? The second is what is there that correlates to the subteranean chamber that would be under the Potomac?
Lastly we would ask, what might features in the map tell us about elements in the pyramid that we still don't know about? If the map depicted the relieving stones that weren't discovered until 1837, then the map may contain clues to other pyramid facts!

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