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3 Pyramids, 3 Stars: Why the Orion's Belt Match at Giza Is Unverified | Ancient Origins
Legon (Discussions in Egyptology 33, 1995) showed the Orion correlation requires Orion to be inverted, that the Belt diverged by more than 30 degrees from the pyramid line around 2500 BC, and that outlying pyramids do not fit. Fairall (Astronomy and Geophysics 1999) measured 38 degrees for the pyramid line against about 47 to 50 degrees for the Belt in 10,500 BC. Radiocarbon (Bonani et al. 2001) and Spence (Nature 2000) place construction around the mid third millennium BC. Orofino (arXiv 2011) finds the pattern compatible but calls the early date very unlikely. Bauval himself says the…
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