History of Construction Surveying
- The nearly perfect squareness and north-south orientation of the Great Pyramid of Giza, built c. 2700 BC, affirm the Egyptians' command of surveying.
- A recent reassessment of Stonehenge (c.2500 BC) suggests that the monument was set out by prehistoric surveyors using peg and rope geometry.
- In the sixth century BC geometric based techniques were used to construct the tunnel of Eupalinos on the island of Samos.
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