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I think they did . If you look at the Great Pyramid and the mathmatics involved they would have had to have known that the earth was round or the exact placing and measurements of the pyramid would never have happened. Here is the maths and the staggering accuracy involved. The Pyramid faces true north if you draw a line from North to South which is three minutes and six seconds deviant from the celestial meridian. Its base length is 230m 36 cm 4mm, the circumference is 921m 45cm 6mm. This means that if you drew a circle around the base it would be exact for a circle around its hight! Multiply the length of the side of the Pyramid by 2 then divide the result by the height, the answer will be 230. 364 multiply this by 2 and divided by 146.599 equals 3.14 Pi ! This is the ratio of the circle's circumference to its diameter contained in the Pyramid. This accuracy proves that the ancient Egyptions were aware of the spherical nature of the earth. To have this advanced knowledge of mathematics means they could had already calculated the radius and circumference of the earth. If they didn't know this then someone or something told them . I will leave that to others to discuss but In an infinate universe can we really be that blinkered to believe that we are alone or have not been visited at different points in evolution and shown or helped in other ways.

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