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Ancient Architects channel on YouTube has produced a really great new video on the theory:
Not sure how my academic colleagues will view this, but hey, it's Giza.
See here:
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Dave L
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Graham,
In fact you missed out the second of the two sentences, which was important both with respect to the procedure and to the Ramesseum diagram: "An alignment of the two stars near the handle of the Big Dipper, pointing towards Ursa Minor, indeed runs past Thuban. When the Big Dipper was to the west of Thuban in the night sky then Thuban would have been very close to transiting the m
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Dave L
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Ancient Egypt
But yes, Shaw's chronology for the Old Kingdom is closer to Ramsay et al. than Hornung was.
Shaw's book was first published in 2000, so a decade before Hornung.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Thanos,
RE your first question. The words "large construction projects" are your own, not mine. Accelerating activity here refers to the whole social machine that was the Old Kingdom. In the first chapter and the introductory part of that chapter in particular I wanted to convey how the pyramids are just the tip of a social system founded in industrial scale agriculture and grain
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
In the USA and Canada, there is currently a 40% off deal on Quarto.com for the manual:
Just type in ARCE2019 at the checkout:
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Could this be the most concise, accurate, and up-to-date book about the Great Pyramid of Giza ever written? Judge for yourself. Now available for sale across the globe:
USA Amazon site:
UK Amazon site
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
"It should be straightforward to place two straight pieces of wood against the top surface of the stone and the bottom surface of the stone and thereby establish that the two surfaces are reasonably parallel to each"
You can see in figure 2 of this article that this is precisely what I did:
There is no doubt the stone is very close to 1 cubit in vertical thickness. I suspect t
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Thanks for the heads up.
All very interesting, except there was not a void 'found' in the Great Pyramid at all. Only an anomalous signal, the cause of which remains unclear.
This initial hypothesis has not been confirmed or verified at all, and there are a number of problematic issues with the hypothesis, as well as plausible alternative interpretations of the data collected.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Exhibitions, Conferences, Lectures, Journals
Does anyone happen to know how to contact Steve Brabin, who published a speculative book about Giza a few years back. The theory was not very convincing, but his graphics were ace.
He had a site giza-pyramids.com
Thanks for help on this.
Dave.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Thanks. I passed this info on to my colleague.
The older messages are all there for sure, it was just the images that got removed unfortunately.
D
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Yes I thought it had been discussed here many moons ago. I have no idea how to search for that though. I will try typing Vyse in.
Thanks.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Question about a fragment of red granite slab found outside the Great Pyramid entrance that is thought to have come from a fragmented king's chamber antechamber portcullis. It has two holes in it. Can anyone tell my colleague where this was documented or where it is now?
Thanks.
Dave.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Hans,
I will not upload the paper to Academia until the appropriate length of time has expired (1 year approximately).
This is to allow KMT to benefit from the publication of the article/news.
The KMT article is an updated, more developed, and fully illustrated version of the basic paper published for peer review on Academia in April.
Best,
Dave.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
David Ian Lightbody (2018), "Questioning the Void. Looking for Plausible Interpretations of the ScanPyramids Dataset", KMT, Vol. 29, No.3, pp. 40-48.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Of all the pseudoscience nonsense ever written about the Great Pyramid, this has to be among the most nonsensical.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Here is the simple answer Jacob.
The Great Pyramid's ascending passage, the descending passage, and the Grand Gallery all have the "same" slope and hence the same seked. (NB "same", given reasonable assumptions regarding expected precision and accuracy of ancient construction and modern survey measurement).
The slope is a Seked of 2 cubits in all these cases.
Th
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
See the full paper which addresses your point.
Under "Understanding the experimental context"
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Yes I think Hermione is probably right. Petrie was the first academic Egyptologist at a British university, but that wasn't till about 1895.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Architecture 2018 - online and freely accessible now.
A new analysis of the satellite pyramid at Meidum leads to a better understanding of Snefru's huge pyramid building program, which rivaled those of the 4th dynasty pharaohs at Giza.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Hi Robin,
Thanks for your positive comments, particularly on chapter 9.
I am not a closet pan-generationalist by any means - I explain in the thesis that each generation creates a new addition to the existing accumulation of architecture, by looking at what has come before and building on it.
This retrospective legitimation process subsequently gives the impression of being pan-generational i
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
OK Don,
I'm outa here.
Hope you are well.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Of course what I wrote is not imaginary or even unconventional.
It is the historical facts based on what Petrie's surveys and other later scientific survey measured.
Also, I have nowhere, ever, said the ancient Egyptians had pi during the Old Kingdom.
What I have demonstrated, based on archaeological and textual evidence, is that they understood that a diameter 7 palms formed a circle o
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Don you said:
"And the numbers found at Giza ARE PERFECT and mathematically EXACT !!! !"
What you are talking about is not science or engineering or Egyptology Don, but imagination.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Yes I think I found your academia paper and it looked like it was similar to what you posted above.
No I do not propose a 'trans-generational plan'. I demonstrated a retrospective legitimation program. I make no declarative statements. I simply stated the facts and the meaning behind them. This is quite clear because it is supported by the texts they left behind which stated why the
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Legon was not correct with all of his analysis of the Giza site. As I wrote, 'Legon was also right about the root 2 root, 3". That was his most significant achievement.
I am glad you are now aware of my 2008 work, which provided evidence and explanation for the ritual background for why this circular symbolism was used. It was deeply embedded in the ancient Egyptian culture.
I spoke a
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Well Don I was the first to publish that information, although it was Ken Bakeman that originally noticed the symbolism. Nobody else has ever published this information elsewhere as far as I am aware.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
I explained the principles behind the geometry and the ritual basis in my 2008 book
"Egyptian Tomb Architecture. The Archaeological Facts of Pharaonic Circular Symbolism."
Petrie was right about the geometry, Legon was also right about the root 2 root, 3. They just didn't take it forwards to understand the underlying meaning.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
Thanks Jon. This is great.
To be honest I think this was and is one of the best posts ever on Hall of Maat. I was sad when the images were withdrawn (about 2011?) that this one was lost. Now it is found again!
Dave.
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Dr Dave Lightbody
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Ancient Egypt
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