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Across the ruins of forgotten empires and buried beneath the foundations of history lies a hidden language of numbers, symbols, geometry, prophecy, and sacred design —an ancient system once believed to govern the structure of civilization itself. The Secret Mathematics of Lost Empires is a sweeping and atmospheric exploration of the mysterious numerical, symbolic, and cosmological systems that shaped humanity’s earliest civilizations and continue to echo throughout the modern world.

This book reveals the Ancient Egyptian knowledge of harmonic proportion, sacred geometry, and number mysticism, as manifested in their texts, temples, tombs, art, hieroglyphs, etc., throughout their known history. It shows how the Egyptians designed their buildings to generate cosmic energy, and the mystical application of numbers in Egyptian works. The book explains in detail the harmonic proportion of about 20 Ancient Egyptian buildings throughout their recorded history.

No ancient society has exerted greater influence on the development of Western culture than the ancient Greeks. Over 2000 years ago these people gave birth to the institution of democracy, to scientific investigation and philosophical dialogue, to poetry, both epic and personal, to historical narrative, and to comic and tragic theater.

This book is intended as a survey of pyramids and possible pyramids worldwide. There are more than 50 different pyramids and sites reviewed.