It was the disposition of these three stars, as archaeo-astronomer Robert Bauval had recently demonstrated, that served as the celestial 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
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