Don Barone Wrote:
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> H all
>
> While looking at some of my older diagrams I
> played a hunch and now would state that the
> northern co-ordinate of a line drawn through the
> center of The Sphinx and drawn due east and west
> and allowing the SW corner of G3 as co-ordinates:
> 0 North 0 East to be ...
>
> 696.45 cubits - North of SW corner of G3 (+ or -
> 0.5 cubits)



Before you come up with some kind of overall plan at Giza wherein also the Sphinx was incorporated, the AE simply found that the natural outcrop of lime-stone out of which they carved the Sphinx, was very convenient to form a statue. That's all. Just like Khufu choose his location only because the natural protrusion over which he built his tomb provided a very solid foundation and firm locking unto the plateau and because the quarries at Dashur were exhausted. Khafre and Menkaure just followed his succesful example. The AE learned a lot from the Bent-pyramid disaster, that was built on desert-sands alone ...


Ronald.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/02/2008 05:50AM by Ronald.