Kanga Wrote:
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> Not that I accept Creighton's explanation, he has
> nevertheless misquoted Trimble. He has also
> erroneously stated that the Orion's Belt
> orientation of KCS was her idea. It was not. It
> was Badawy's. Trimble only made the astronomical
> calculations at Badawy's request.
>
> I still maintain that it was I who first suggested
> that KCS pointed at Al Nilam.
1883 - Petrie, Pyramids and Temples of Giza - [
www.ronaldbirdsall.com]
1954 - Alexander Badawy, A History of Egyptian Architecture, I
1964 - Virginia Trimble's "Astronomical Investigation" - [
gizamedia.rc.fas.harvard.edu], referencing Badawy and Petrie; the stars of Orion's Belt [
en.wikipedia.org] are referenced as Delta, Epsilon and Zeta Orionis [the Greek alphabet cannot be reproduced here] (which might explain why my previous efforts to find "Al Nilam" were unsuccessful). On pg. 186, Trimble discusses the "position of these stars relative to the southern shaft".
1994. 1995 - Bauval & Gilbert, Orion Mystery - [
archive.org]; Al Nilam is cross-referenced as Epsilon Orionis. Pg 136 states:
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... the accuracy of the Badawy-Trimble discovery. The southern shaft of the King's Chamber ... The calculations showed that the shaft was aimed ... at the central star, Al Nilam.
2009 - (Chris Tedder) ... the top opening of the south shaft in the sarcophagus chamber was facing an area of the sky where Alnilam, the centre star in ‘Orion’s belt’ crossed the meridian due south during Khufu’s reign:
From 11 years ago [2009]: “The top outlet of south shaft is facing an area of the southern sky ~45 degs above the horizon - Alnilam the centre star in the 3-star asterism in the centre of Orion was ~45 degs alt. c.2570 BC.”
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Feb 2020 - Kanga - [
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GChase Wrote:
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> The northern QC shaft is lined up almost with
> Kocab and the southern QC shaft almost with Sirius.
> But they do match exactly on a certain date 2450
> BC and have the same elevation of 9 on 11.
That may be so, but that date conflicts with the date given by the KC shafts. The final portion of KCN appears to have a seked of 11½ palms (31.3°), and points to the upper culmination of Thuban in 2552 BCE, while the final portion of KCS appears to have a seked of 7 palms (45°), and points to the upper culmination of Al Nilam, also in 2552 BCE. This date falls within the range of dates accepted by Egyptologists for this pyramid. The date of 2450 BCE falls outside the accepted range.
July 2021 - Scott Creighton, The Great-Pyramid Void Enigma, pg 98, states:
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... In 1963, Trimble made an intriguing observation that
she believed might assist in helping to date the Great Pyra-
mid (and, by extension, its contemporaries). She calcu-
lated that circa 2550 BCE the 45° inclined angle of the shaft
that runs from the south side of the pyramid’s King’s
Chamber would have precisely aligned with the star Al
Nilam, the center star of Orion’s Belt ...
I have no more time to pursue this. However, I suspect that one reason for any confusion might lie in the use of Greek identification
to refer to Al Nilam.
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