[djf]

You're quite right. Flammarion shows that about 2500 years ago, the closest to being a pole star was Alpha Draconis. Interesting, 13,000 years ago, Vega was the pole star!

[djf]

Reading further, he says: "The Egyptians, who built their pyramids with admirable science nearly fifty centuries ago, designed galleries which penetrated the interior in the direction of the north pole and at an inclination of 27 degrees to the horizon, which is precisely the altitude which the pole star (alpha draconis) reached at its inferior crossing of the meridian at the latitude of Giza"

I got 2 much 2 rede.