Byrd Wrote:
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> How do you know they're aligned north-south?
>
> In fact, they could be aligned east-west (which
> makes more sense in the cultural context.) There
> are many examples of tombs and temples aligned to
> the rising sun on a specific date.
>
> It's extremely easy to get a north-south-east-west
> alignment:
> On the morning of the equinox (or as close as you
> like or use the date you prefer), take a stick,
> poke it in the ground, mark along the shadow. You
> now have a perfect east-west line and since they
> knew how to make a right angle tool, lay one of
> those on your line and you now have a perfect
> north-south alignment.

If this works, it sure seems 10x easier and more practical. If it's perfect on the equinox... and yet the pyramid alignment is off be a degree or so... then maybe they didn't measure on the equinox, causing the error. Hypothetically speaking.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/12/2007 12:40PM by rich.