No actually Anthony, the latest data simply confirms and refines the data and construction dates - and proved the regularity of the long outer exit sections of the star shafts.

As Chris Tedder iirc posted below, both Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass and many others have indicated agreement with Badawi and Trimble's 1964 conclusions, and at last year's Egyptian Exploration Society meeting Kate Spence said that (from my summary notes):

".....this does not impact on the Star Shafts at all. She maintains Badawi and Trimball’s linking of the four shafts to Sirius, Alnitak, Mizar and Kochab, and warns that it would be wrong to discard these just because of efforts to highlight Bauval’s problematic areas. She also shows how this link was possibly used earlier at Nabta Playa, where the same layout is seen, but set to the rising points of the stars, and not the transit points. This is what the excavators of Nabta Playa themselves have propsed."

There is as I said an excellent documentary from the BBC entitled 'Pyramid' that has a great reconstruction of how the Ancient Egyptians perceived the pharaoh's soul to ascend to the stars.

Dave L




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