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Posted on 03/28/2020 11:56:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Sphinx had a "distinctive astronomical" moment with the sun during the spring equinox when, in a shining flourish, the sun set on the shoulder of the half-man, half-lion statue on March 19, according to the Egypt Ministry of Antiquities.
This phenomenon happens only twice a year, during the spring in March and the fall equinox in September, according to the ministry.
During the equinox, Earth's axis doesn't point toward or away from the sun, meaning that the Northern and Southern hemispheres receive equal amounts of the sun's light. In other words, the day and the night are equal in length.
Related: Day and night are perfectly balanced in spring equinox photo snapped from space...
The Sphinx is also strategically placed for the summer solstice in June, when the sun sets between the pyramids of pharaohs Khufu and Khafre.
The Sphinx's position during the equinoxes and summer solstice suggests that the ancient Egyptians purposefully positioned the hybrid lion-man statue. "This phenomenon proves that archaeologists were wrong when they said that the ancient Egyptians had found an ancient rock by accident and turned it into a statue of a human face and a non-human body," the Egypt Ministry of Antiquities wrote in a Facebook post.
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Exploration would mean a supervised visit, if Hawass had anything to do with it. Otherwise, academic affiliation (and presumably kickbacks) or visit as a tourist which is what the late J.A. West used to do when he conducted his occult tour of Egypt.
If you put a straight stick in the ground, the shortest shadow is due north (when north of the Tropic of Cancer). Drawing the perpendicular is easy. You can also use the sunrise and sunset shadows and bisect that angle to get the north-south line any time of the year.
I have heard that they also used the north star at the time, Thuban, to mark north and that estimates on the age of structures could be made based on deviation fron true north caused by orbital precession.
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I hear tell that the Southern Hemisphere lagged behind the Northern Hemisphere due to them not having a Star that the Southern axis pointed to.
According to Temple in his other explorations of the Sphinx and the two associated temples, Hawass approved them, but they explorations were unsupervised or no more supervised than one by Lehrer or some other accredited person. He was NOT visiting as a tourist and some sites and areas were closed or never open to tourists.
The Sirius Mystery Revisited | Prof. Robert Temple | Origins Conference
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j12Ea8Rvn3o
Thanks but I don’t have 1.75 hrs right now to spare I’ll down load it later
But what was the point you are trying to make?
I think that’s a fairly current public appearance, you’d wondered if he was still alive.
Oh yeah I didn’t notice the date - thanks
Somewhat subsequent to the 34 minute mark, Kawae shows and discusses "the notch" which was previously visited and photographed by Bob Brier.
Current studies of pyramids in the Memphis area of ancient Egypt are being conducted from multiple perspectives, and archaeological data about them is now available from both texts and excavations. The survey data of the pyramids, however, has rarely been updated. Yukinori Kawae provided historical insights on the development of pyramid construction methods and discussed how a Japanese consortium is using 3D documentation to update survey data in collaboration with the Japanese production company, TV MAN UNION, using drones and Global Navigation Satellite System equipment.
This public lecture was recorded April 5, 2018 by Harvard Semitic Museum, one of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture.
Analyzing Egyptian Pyramids in the Digital Age | Yukinori Kawae, Research Fellow, Research Center for Cultural Heritage and Text, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University, Japan | YouTube | Harvard Semitic Museum | Published on Oct 28, 2018 | Free Public Lecture
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