Plotting the pyramids

Owen Gingerich ()
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Owen Gingerich: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Nature, 2000, vol. 408, issue 6810, 297-298

Abstract: There is no evidence in ancient texts that Egyptians used astronomical knowledge in building the pyramids. But analysis of the night sky in 2500 bc could help explain how the pyramid builders knew the direction of true north.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35042648

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