A new article by Assem Deif published today in Al-Ahram discusses the possibility that the angle of the face of Khufu’s pyramid was aligned with the culmination of Sirius. Using cubits and sekeds Assem compares the face angles of other pyramids and looks at Arab sources for insight on the subject.
Temple of Hathor - Al-Ahram
“In my view, it is the other way around. The builders designed their structure so that at culmination Sirius’s rays fell perpendicular to the pyramid’s south face; thus giving its maximum blessing to the deceased king and his ka. In other words, Sirius transmitted its benediction from the climax of its throne to the deceased. This view, which is credited wrongly to the German engineer Neuberger in 1919, is in fact a property of Mahmoud Hamdy Pacha, k Al-Falaki, the famous Egyptian engineer and astronomer who lived in the mid 19th century, and founded the first Egyptian observatory. Among his several books is one written 60 years prior to Neuberger and devoted to the Pyramids of Giza in which he calculated the age of the great edifice. The results he published in 1862 in the Belgian Royal Academy put him on the lead in the science of archeoastronomy. For after carrying out measurements for the Great Pyramid during the vernal equinox, he discovered that its four faces are inclined equally towards the horizon; meaning that they possess the same slope. Al-Falaki concluded that this could not be coincidental.”
Read the article in full at Al-Ahram
Tags: Theory
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