perfect alignment been solved?
apparently so all by the use of a gnomon, (think of a sundial), Glen Dash, is an archaeologist and engineer, and he had a mission, He wanted to know
how the Egyptians were able to align the pyramids perfectly with a margin of
error that is rotated slightly counter-clockwise from the cardinal points, several theories on how this was done exist however, Dash has a much simpler method which he thinks could explain
the phenomenon,
above a gnomon in
action, His recent research suggests that the Egyptians roughly 4,500 years ago
could have used the autumnal equinox to achieve perfect alignment, the equinox is regarded as
the moment twice a year when the plane of Earth's equator passes through the
centre of the Sun's disc, and the length of day and night are pretty much
equal, previously equinox measurements had been overlooked as a possible
alignment method, as it was assumed it wouldn't provide enough accuracy, but
Dash's latest work show that there's a way this could have worked - using a rod
known as a gnomon, for the full rundown on what might be one of the
great mysteries of the Egyptian age to be solved have a look
here.
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