The Orion Mystery
Robert Bauval, author of the best-selling 'The Orion Mystery',
gave a talk at the CB1 Cybercafe, on Wednesday 13th of September,
1995. To tie in with this, we at AA&ES produced a WWW site exploring Bauval's
ideas. See the bottom of the page to find out how you
can join in with this discussion over the internet.
Introduction
Over the past 200 years great advances have been made in our understanding
of ancient Egyptian culture. From knowing virtually nothing we have now
reached a stage where we are able to translate directly from hieroglyphs.
But many mysteries remain largely unsolved:
- Why did the Egyptians build the pyramids?
- How did they achieve such amazing feats of
architecture and engineering?
- When exactly were they built?
For many years classical Egyptologists maintained that the Pyramids
were merely grandiose tombs to commemorate dead Pharoahs, built by
slave labour and laid out in a relatively unstructured manner.
However, recent work by Robert Bauval has shed an intriguing new
light on the issue.
He realized that the relative sizes, and detailed positioning of, the Giza pyramids were a faithful mimicry of the stars forming the 'belt' in the constellation of Orion. In addition, it transpired that the supposed 'air shafts' in the pyramids actually pointed directly towards Orion, apparently with the aim of projecting the soul of the deceased king out towards the constellation.
These discoveries alone re-wrote our understanding of the motivations for building the pyramids and the state of technological advance of the ancient culture. But the plot continues to thicken with a robotic camera sent into the shafts recently enabling the discovery of a door to a previously unknown secret chamber deep within the structure. Rumours abound that imminent discoveries may even more radically change our perception of ancient civilisation...
To find out more, why not click on each of the following links?
Please feel free to join our discussion by e-mail. Leave your comments and questions here and Robert will endeavor to answer as many as he can.
Textual copyright on link pages owned by Dave Goode & Henry Ritson
Graphic copyright owned by Robert G. Bauval.
The Orion Mystery is published by Heinemann.
Web page design and programming by Henry Ritson.(Mail to hal@ecafe.org)
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