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In regards to your project, one thing you might try while you're there is to see if any of the monuments are aligned to certain stars and constellations. I live near Stonehenge and they reckon whoever built that knew a thing or two about astronomy and geometry and I'm sure the Egyptians snuck a few significant alignments into their worship sites, given that they were effectively sky worshipers.
Of course to do that you'd have to plot the monuments and backdate the starcharts 5000 years to compensate for procession.
Okay lets get this over with now.... Imohtep, was Viser to the Pharaoh Djoser, in the 3rd dynesty... she was the builder of the first pyrimid, the red step pyrimid. Now i know about all the mummy movie crap, where they use the name of Imohtep as high priset to Seti the first i beleive, but seti was in the 19th dyanesty, which in fact was nearly 1500 years after the lifetime of the real imohtep.
just a little infor for you
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Oh LOA, I dont need you to stand up for me..... I can fight my own battles.... heck, i am the one that scared your little mikey friend after he broke your arm... i am so not afraid of the people in this forum...... so ya you dont need to stand up for me, okay.... if you try to, then ill start doing it in trun and i know you HATE it when i try and protect you from your werid guy friends.... (BTW tony needs to take me on his bike again )
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Yes the pyramids of Giza... the 3 large ones that everyone knows about...are believed to have been built following the Orion built, however, if memory serves me correct, the constellation that we know as Orion, was to the Egyptian, Osirus...or was it Ra.... well anyways the constellation was based on one of their most formidable gods............ Another fascinating fact about the pyramids is the fact that the enterences face almost due north... there is a .1 degree difference, which Egyptologist suspect is due to the wobble of the earth and not a miscalculation
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Actually, I knew all of that about Imhotep. This is why I was given dirty looks as I screamed at the screen, "Oh, for fuck's sake, just build the man's monument & be DONE with it."
The Brendan Fraser reference was what in the business refer to as "comedy."
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Oh okay, I am sorry, I didnt realize that you where joking.... Ask LOA, i am not very good when it comes to sarcasum and jokes and all... sorry if i offened you.....
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My technique, is to go out side and set up a telescope and use star charts to do all my observing, Messier, set up his telescoped and looked at all the fussy stuff he could and then catalouged it all....... So what did Imohtep and other great egyptian astronomers do.. what, if any tools did they use??? basicly... how did they observer, and can i recreate it...
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