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“Astronomers have noted in the Great Pyramid indications of the sidereal year, the anomalistic year, the precessions of the equinoxes ‘for 6,000 years, whereas modern astronomy knows them for only about 400 years.’ Mathematics have detected in it the exact value of ‘pi,’ the exact average distance between the sun and the earth, the polar diameter of the earth, and so on.”

Source: Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality, pg. 233. 1974