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In his book
Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island (2007), Prof. Giulio Magli made the observation that, if the King's Chamber were on the central axis, like the Queen's Chamber, and if the KC shafts were to exit at the same level, as the QC shafts seemingly do, then they would have the same slope; but they do not. There must be a reason for the offset of the KC. Magli suggested that it was the specific alignments to Thuban and Orion's Belt that, in combination with the upper shafts exiting at the same level, gave the KC its offset.
"Trimble and Badaway’s work answers the question of why the king’s chamber was not built on the vertical from the apex. In fact, it is not possible to reconcile these three factors: (1) the stellar, hence fixed, orientation of the shafts; (2) the egress of the shafts at the same height; and (3) the chamber set on the axis. Thus, the building principle that required the exit of the shafts to be at the same height was considered to be fundamental rather than the traditional arrangement of the sepulchral chamber on the axis. Further, the stellar interpretation of the two lower shafts puts an end to a hundred years of ridiculous discussion about the queen’s chamber being incomplete. In fact, given that the lower shafts were also astronomically oriented, if the chamber had been an “aborted” sepulchral chamber, its shafts would have been oriented toward the same stars as the real sepulchral chamber (that is, the king’s chamber), but this is not the case." [p.350.]
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