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The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh

W. M. Flinders Petrie, 1883. Field and Tuer, London.

Petrie's report of his 1880 to 1882 triangulation survey of the Giza pyramids, with the measurements that disposed of Smyth's pyramid-inch theory.

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The first precise survey and the refutation of the pyramid inch.

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Petrie, W. M. F. (1883). The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh. Field and Tuer, London. https://giza.digitalhumanities.fas.harvard.edu/pubdocs/551/full/
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