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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

template for the site-plan of the three Giza pyramids. This, in itself, was a
remarkable discovery, suggesting a far higher level of observational
astronomy, and of surveying and setting-out skills, than scholars had
attributed to the Ancient Egyptians. Even more remarkable, however—and
the reason that I had arranged to meet him at Giza the next morning—
was Bauval’s contention that the pattern traced out on the ground (in
almost fifteen million tons of perfectly dressed stone) matched exactly
the pattern in the sky during the epoch of 10,450 BC.
If Bauval was correct, the pyramids had been devised, using the
changes precession effects in the positions of the stars, as the permanent
architectural signature of the eleventh millennium BC.

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