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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Chapter 36

Anomalies

Viewed from our vantage point in the desert south west of the Giza
necropolis, the site plan of the three great pyramids seemed majestic but
bizarre.
Menkaure’s pyramid was closest to us, with Khafre’s and Khufu’s
monuments behind it to the north-east. These two were situated along a
near perfect diagonal—a straight line connecting the south-western and
north-eastern corners of the pyramid of Khafre would, if extended to the
north-east, also pass through the south-western and north-eastern
corners of the Great Pyramid. This, presumably, was not an accident.
From where we sat, however, it was easy to see that if the same
imaginary straight line was extended to the south-west it would
completely miss the Third Pyramid, the entire body of which was offset to
the east of the principal diagonal.
Egyptologists refused to recognize any anomaly in this. Why should
they? As far as they were concerned there was no site plan at Giza. The
pyramids were tombs and tombs only, built for three different pharaohs
over a period of about seventy-five years. It made sense to assume that
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each ruler would have sought to express his own personality and
idiosyncrasies through his monument, and this was probably why
Menkaure had ‘stepped out of line’.
The Egyptologists were wrong. Though I was unaware of it that March
morning in 1993, a breakthrough had been made proving beyond doubt
that the necropolis did have an overall site plan, which dictated the exact
positioning of the three pyramids not only in relation to one another but
in relation to the River Nile a few kilometres east of the Giza plateau. With
eerie fidelity, this immense and ambitious layout modelled a celestial
phenomenon —which was perhaps why Egyptologists (who pride
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themselves on looking exclusively at the ground beneath their feet) had
failed to spot it. On a truly giant scale, as we see in later chapters, it also
reflected the same obsessive concern with orientations and dimensions
demonstrated in each of the monuments.

A singular oppression ...

Giza, Egypt, 16 March 1993, 8 a.m.
At a little over 200 feet tall (and with a side length at the base of 356

1 Atlas of Ancient Egypt, p. 36.
2 The Orion Mystery.

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