Dear Hermione,

You obviously have not read their paper No. 4, and the conclusions they draw from their overall investigation. I did put a link in my previous message, though.

To quote from paper No. 4, pp. 1, 12 and 13:
"Three successive papers (1,2 and 3) have been published about the temples where, stage by stage, we have analysed the relation of temple orientation and location with local landscape, understanding landscape in its broadest meaning of both terrestrial (basically the Nile) or celestial (astronomical orientations) aspects. Our work is demonstrating that both components were neccessary and indeed intimately correlated."

"The temples of the Nile Valley and the Delta were orientated were orientated to the Nile as our data have clearly demonstrated, but they were also astronomically orientated beyond any reasonable doubt as all the successive analyses we have done to our data fully demonstrates."

"As a matter of fact, this overview illustrates something that we could only imagine at the beginning of our project: ancient Egyptians undoubtedly looked at the sky with scutinized eyes in a permanent search for their correct orientation not only in time but also in space."


As you can see, your hasty knee-jerking comments are totally contradicted.
It's one thing to oppose the idea of astronomical orientation for Egyptian temples, but quite another to make uninformed --and thus misleading-- statements to express one viewpoint, especially when the published information was presented in my previous message.

RB