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Mysterious hieroglyphs written in red paint on the floor of a hidden chamber in Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza are just numbers, according to a mathematical analysis of the 4,500-year-old mausoleum.
Shown to the world last month, when the first report of a robot exploration of the Great Pyramid was published in the Annales du Service Des Antiquities de l’Egypte (ASAE), the images revealed featu
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Robert Bauval
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Ancient Egypt
The claim that the QC southern shaft measures 121 RC is not mine. It was made by an Italian Mathematician called Luca Miatello:
"The markings are hieratic numerical signs. They read from right to left, meaning 100, 20, 1. The builders simply recorded the total length of the shaft: 121 cubits," Miatello told Discovery News.
There's a lot of controversy/opinions as to the exc
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Robert Bauval
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It has been suggested that the inscriptions in red ochre found behind the 'Gantenbrink Door' represent the number 1-2-1 i.e. 121 royal cubits, the length of the shaft from the QC to the 'door'.
Any comments on this?
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Robert Bauval
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Katherine, I have lived 35 years in Egypt and in other hot climates (Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Oman etc) and I can tell you that no-one gets used to toiling in tempratures 35 deg. C + as you imagine. The temprature of a human body is a constant 36.5 Deg. C no matter who or where you are.
Maybe you ought to try and haul a 50 kg. block (the estimated average for the pyramid builders) for a few meter
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Robert Bauval
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Ancient Egypt
All these 'feasability studies' are theoretical and do not take into account many factors. As a one-time construction engineer in the 1970-80s, I worked on lage civil engineering and building construction projects in the middle east. Here are, very briefly, my views:
There's a consensus, started in the 1950s I think, that the GP was a sort of 'community project' to k
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Robert Bauval
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Referring to Schoch's geological interpretation as 'crazy ideas' is... well, crazy.
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Robert Bauval
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Hi Andy,
It was good to see you in Avebury/Marlborough this weekend.
Correlating three stars or three points to the three pyramids is not what clinches a theory. Like I said to you many times before, it is the CONTEXT. In this case the context is the Osirian astral rebirth rituals that are clearly expressed in the Pyramid Texts. The direction of the two southern shafts of the Great Pyram
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Robert Bauval
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Ancient Egypt
He did not resign... he was sacked. There has been huge protests against him in Tahrir and at the Ministry of Antiquities. He barely managed to escape when an angry mob, apparently archaeologists and students, attacked his taxi when he left the building...
He demise, I'm afraid, is not yet over. He faces many charges or corruption and abuse of power and profiteering.
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Robert Bauval
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Ancient Egypt
I am going to Cartagena in the Murcia region this week to investigate about the sinking of the Beatrice off the coast of Cartagena with the sarcophagus of Menkaure in October 1838.
Any information/sources would be most welcome.
Thanks
R
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Robert Bauval
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Hate to say this, but it would very much seem that professor Sarah Parcak is a very young and very enthusiiastic lady who has let infra-red imagery heat up her little grey cells in a puppyish craving for attention and celebrity fiefdom. I have to agree with Hawass on this one I am afraid.
You cannot just blame 'Production Companies' for such scientific sentationalism. TV is about
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Robert Bauval
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Ancient Egypt
I saw the documentary when I was in England last week.
I agree, it was really terrible. But two wrongs do not make a right. Btw, Chasing Mummies was not 'tongue in cheek' but reality TV showing us, for once, the real Zahi Hawass. I spoke to one of the consultants of Chasing Mummies who told me that they withheld footage that was even far worse!
As for Zahi 'doing good' for
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Robert Bauval
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When will you all wake up to the fact that in ZH we are confronted with an egocentric paranoid slightly unhinged authoritarian bully that has become an embarassment to Egyptology.
And that's putting it midly...
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Robert Bauval
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Hi Rick.
Well, err, yes... but wait...: [213.158.162.45]
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Robert Bauval
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Apparently it's not yet official....
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Robert Bauval
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Very interesting.
But it's nothing new.
Thomas Brophy and myself arrived at this same conclusion last year, and it is reported in our book Black Genesis (Inner Traditions, April 2011).
The suggestion of a pharaonic route from Gebel Uwainat further south (thus to Chad) was also proposed by Mark Borda (along with Dr. Joseph Clayton and Dr. Aloisia de Trafford) (ssee SAHARA 19, 2008.&qu
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Robert Bauval
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"Initially, Sharaf bundled antiquities and culture in one ministry under Emad Abou Ghazy. But on Monday the PM decided to separate them again in response to employees in the antiquities authorities, who protested in front of the Cabinet headquarters. They called for independence of the Ministry of Antiquities to preserve Egypt’s treasures.
The Minister of Antiquities is yet to be announced.
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Robert Bauval
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The possibility that the Benben's shape might be the origin of the pyramids hasn't been overlooked. IIRC Edwards discussed this in The Pyramids of Egypt, although he points that the Benben was slighly bell shaped.
The stylized pyramidion/apex stone of Royal Pyramids and Obelisks were called Benben-t, suggesting a connection with the sacred stone at Heliopolis. See my article in DE 1
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Robert Bauval
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Persitently repeating, as you do, Krupp's 1999 'upside down' so-called rebuttal in the hope that it will stick, and ignoring the many counter-rebuttals by many astronomers* who categorically rejected Krupp's argument, not only shows extreme bias on your part but also a futile (I will not say desperate) attempt to revive an argument that has been put to rest long ago.
(*P
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Robert Bauval
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This discussion has completely derailed.
And so has this message board, I'm afraid.
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Robert Bauval
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You are too funny. Or sad. Or both.
There's an antipathy of the OCT in you that is most bizarre. And as as always, you spoiled an interesting disucssion with it.
End of discussion.
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Robert Bauval
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Is the 'we' in your message a royal 'we', or 'we' as everybody on Maat?
Yes, the spelling was a typo. I thought this should have been obvious.
I have absolutely no reason to make any of this up. I am puzzled at you negative attitude and implications. As a Moderator you ought to be moderated yourself.
I opened a discussions on the 'Kate Spence cont
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Robert Bauval
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Of further note perhaps: I have been officially invited by the University of the District of Culumbia, Washington DC, to present my theories on the 12th January 2011.
I suppose that is 'academic' enough for Maat members?
R
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Robert Bauval
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I will comment to your observations, and avoid dealing with 'Anthony' as the tone of his message is, to say the least, provocative and bordering on rude.
This idea that 'academic journals' are the only valid and accepted place for referencing a work is misleading and ill-founded. Nonetheless, you righly have pointed out that the OCT was mentioned in Discussions in Egyptol
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Robert Bauval
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My point was not to discuss or review Gaugelin's finding/theory.It was to show some possible manipulation of the events by CSICOP in the Kate Spence controversy.
Having been directly involved in the 'Kate Spence controversy', I have had, since the publication of her paper in NATURE in November 2000, an uneasy feeling that this was a sort of 'coup montee' by CSICOP, an
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Robert Bauval
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Regarding the Kate Spence and the Great Pyramid story.
Michel Gauquelin (November 13, 1928 – May 20, 1991) was a French psychologist and statistician. Along with his first wife Françoise Schneider-Gauquelin (born June 19, 1929), he conducted statistical research in an attempt to develop a scientific basis for astrology.
The most famous result of Gauquelin's studies was the controversi
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