Though it's slightly lopsided, the towering Great Pyramid of Giza is an ancient feat of engineering, and now an archaeologist has figured out how the Egyptians may have aligned the monument almost ...

"Damn. It's fake. I can't undo the post for some reason," one comment under the post read. "Of course the picture is fake. I'm in Hawaii not Egypt. It's a picture to explain current astrology.

An ancient astronomical alignment in southern Peru has been discovered by researchers between a pyramid, two stone lines and the setting sun during the winter solstice. During the solstice ...

Two pyramids that do not conform to this pattern — the second great pyramid at Giza (Khafre) and the later pyramid of Sahure — can easily be explained if the north alignment was done with ...

I assume here that the pyramid alignment ceremony occurred in year 2 of each king's reign (with the exception of those for the later pyramids of Snofru), after the burial of his predecessor ...

Nearly 4,500 years ago, each star was about 10 degrees from the celestial pole which lay directly between them. When one star was exactly above the other in the sky, astronomers could find a line that ...

which gives some indication of just how much the pyramid may have shifted out of alignment due to earthquakes over the millennia. This turned out to be not significant enough to account for some ...

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