<HTML>Derek:
Thanks for the reply. To answer your question about an original star map: I have that in my posession and I am not going to publish it before it becomes a part of my new book, "THE GIZA NECROPOLIs - a clockwork in stone."I took the advice of my lawyer, my wife and Robert Bauval and decided to publish first.
However, that doesn't mean we can't discuss the maps I have posted.
I am not sure just to interpert your images. I am absolutely sure about 1035 B.C. being the date given by the Giza group, though.
I'll be posting some new maps in the coming week with which I hope to confirm the veracity of what I propose.
Check your prime meridian, Derek, ithas to conform the stars shown on the maps I posted. Whether you agree or disagree with my proposition some things never change, like the stars when viewed from top down, as God might see it.
The map of Giza, you've no doubt noticed, is a mirror image of the sky. Up un til about 150 years ago, all star maps were published this way: the reverse of of what you are showing. Also, I wouldn't go placing too much trust into precessional programs, or soft ware.
Bent
Derek Barnett wrote:
>
> Hi Bent,
>
> I appreciatte the effort that you have put into this. Having
> called for you to 'publish and be damned' I could hardly
> fault you for having done so. I am sure though that you
> would understand if these maps, and your brief commentary,
> raise two immediate questions which I feel should be asked.
>
> Firstly, your original post, in another place, gave the
> distinct impression that you had uncovered a map of some
> antiquity and that your ideas had been derived from the study
> of it. The maps which have been posted here for us to study
> are clearly the work of your own hand. Can you confirm
> whether the maps you have posted are copies of the original
> or entirely your own work?
>
> Secondly, a chronological question. Your maps clearly use
> constellations that were unknown not only to the builders of
> the Giza complex but even, as I understand it, in the epoch
> you identify as being central to an understanding of the maps
> information, 1035 BC. How could it be possible for the Old
> Kingdom pyramid builders to correctly predict how their
> descendants, thousands of years hence, would interperate the
> night sky?
>
> Pleasent dreams.
>
> Regards,
>
> Derek</HTML>
