Ancient foot length measure has come to vary in Western Europe through the centuries from the original 12.16 modern inch length of the Olympic Foot which was the original length for the ancient Swedish measures fot, famn, and mil, and the Spanish Vara, three pies (feet), the Vara like the British Yard, but the mile in Britain which used to be 6,000 Olympic Feet made 5,280 feet by queen Elizabeth I, that’s 3 yards x 1,760, the number of Royal Cubits which compose the base perimeter length of the Great Pyramid of Giza, and 176 the number of towers around the medieval fortress of Seville.
