. Egyptologists have not been able to make
> sense out of this text, because they have declared
> a priori that a calculation in terms of
> differences of latitude was impossible. Hence,
> they have dismissed these documents as gibberish
> without even trying to test their figures in terms
> of latitude.”

LOL...I love this approach! We "know" they didn't "know" about latitude, so they couldn't be talking about "latitude"!