January 31, 2020 06:23PM
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Hi Robin,
Thanks for the interesting comment and I also want to thank you for introducing my 2016 article on this forum.
Although most of the conclusions of the 2016 article remained relevant, need to admit that I was wrong with my variant of the "simultaneous transit" method, and therefore failed to explain the orientation of the Djedefre pyramid, which led to a deadlock all the "precession-dependent" methods.
I hope that in the new article I was able to correct previous mistakes and find more convincing evidences of the "older" Old Kingdom in the field of chronology and radiocarbon.
As for the "starshafts" - this is a very interesting question, but at the moment I have not studied all the subtleties in order to express a fully competent opinion about shafts.
Any hypotheses here will strongly depend on the accuracy of the data on the angles of inclination of the shafts and on which values are considered to be the angles of inclination of the shafts:
- average for whole length;
or
- angles of long straight parts;
or
- angles of parts near the exits to the surface or at the entrances to the shafts in the chambers (after the horizontal parts)).
If we use Petrie's data, the shafts of "200 years older" Khufu pyramid also point to (according to Stellarium):
Queen South (38° 28') -> Sirius (38° 21' - culmination at 2803 BC)
King South (45° 13) -> Orion's belt (about 44° - culmination at 2803 BC)
King North (31° 33') -> i Dra (31° 27' - upper culmination at 2803 BC).
Robin, do you have any idea for what reason the Egyptians, who could make straight southern shafts (which have no obstacles on their way), nevertheless allowed significant fluctuations of the angle of inclination in some places?
In the measurements of Gantenbrink, I was interested by the value for the southern shaft of the Queen chamber - 39.6078°. First of all, is it acceptable to provide a value with 4 signs after a point for such a roughly straight construction, which shaft is? Secondly, I wonder why he did not provide mentioned 24 measurements, as Petrie did for KC shafts, but only the average value of terrifying accuracy?
Best,
Alex.
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