The Origin of Ancient Measurement Systems

This document addresses the discovery of the original prototype measurements which were partially copied in the creation of the “cubit dataset”: ten ancient Old-World cubit systems geographically distributed between Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean to the Indus Valley of India. This newly identified prototype (hereafter the “Jhazi System”) consists of eight, separate, base-12ii, mathematically networked units bundled together somewhat like a coaxial cable and labeled for convenience as: “Strings A through H”. Several of these strings incorporate square root and Golden Mean applications. Evidence indicates basic elements among ten Old-World cubit systems were anciently derived from six strings in the Jhaz System—their common identities apparent from extraordinarily high statistical correlations ranging between 96.51% to 99.98% between these two ancient data-sets. The correlations of these two datasets is facilitated using a variant of the remen geometric template employed by the Egyptians in the architectural planning of the Giza pyramids.

Discoveries made by various archaeologists have enabled the identification of this Jhaz System. Such findings include Alexander Thom’s documentation of the megalithic yard while mapping Stonehenge and numerous other Neolithic complexes in Europe; Sir Flinders Petrie’s identification of the Egyptian remen for establishing artistic and architectural proportions; Asher S. Kaufman’s identification of the 428-millimeter and 437-millimeter cubits on The Temple Mount in Jerusalem; and recent analyses of Mesoamerican units of measure initiated independently by Mesoamerican archaeologist John Clark and architect Antonio Prado Cobos, a Guatemalan interested in ancient and historic principles of design.

Ancient New-World units of measure have been consolidated into three categories: Aztec I, II, and III. Three of the Jhaz strings, which directly correlate with Old-World cubits, are virtually identical with these three Aztec measurement systems: Aztec I interacts with both the Jhaz String C and the Sumerian Lagash system at 99.06%; Aztec II interfaces with both the Jhaz String B and the Sumerian Nippur system at 98.9%; and Aztec III interfaces with Jhaz String D at 100% and the Egyptian Royal Cubit system at 96.87%. Such significant ratings of shared identity validate the following assessments: (1) these three New World units of measure (Aztec I, II, and III) once originated from the Sumerian Lagash and Nippur cubits of Mesopotamia and the Egyptian Royal cubit; and (2) these three Old-World measurement systems, plus the other seven systems addressed in this study, initially originated from these eight Jhaz strings. Thus, since the Jhaz System evidently served as the prototype for these civilization’s earliest known units of measure, it is logical to assume it existed in the beginning of mankind’s odyssey on Earth and aspects of both the Jhaz System and the remen were intentionally designed and used in the creation of matter, mathematics and astronomy.

Our excavation team’s 2016 discovery of Jhaz String B’s 429 mm cubit in the 587-584 BC, construction of the Kharfot worship sanctuary and observatory at Wadi Sayq on the eastern coast of Arabia (Oman) validates two of Asher Kaufman’s discoveries: (1) the 428 mm cubit (Jhaz String B) used during Solomon’s erection of the First Temple on Temple Mount in Jerusalem (and, thus in all likelihood, also used by Moses in the architecture and furnishings of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness); and, (2) the 437 mm cubit (Jhaz String E) as used in the construction of Jerusalem’s Second Temple following the Tribe of Judah’s return from exile. However, the ancient development of such sacred space using elements of this newly discovered Jhaz System was not limited to these three Middle Eastern architectural complexes but readily becomes apparent in Mesoamerican sacred art and architecture as analyzed independently by archaeologists Garth Norman and John Clark using complementary data-sets while employing three very different methodologies.

Archeological Research Institute
Wadi Sayq Technical Research Series, Paper No. 4 2022c