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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

The three pyramids of Giza plotted against the three belt stars of the
Orion constellation.
Curiously enough (as we saw in Chapter Thirty-six), this was exactly the
site-plan of the three enigmatic pyramids of the Giza plateau. Bauval
realized that an aerial view of the Giza necropolis would show the Great
Pyramid of Khufu occupying the position of Al Nitak, and the Second
Pyramid of Khafre occupying the position of Al Nilam, while the Third
Pyramid of Menkaure was offset to the east of the diagonal formed by the
other two—thus completing what seemed at first to be a vast diagram of
the stars.
Was this indeed what the Giza pyramids represented? I knew that
Bauval’s later work, which had been wholeheartedly endorsed by

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