02-03-2011, 02:01 AM
(02-02-2011, 04:52 PM)Maggot Wrote: It still pisses me off that Napoleons soldiers shot the nose off the sphinx.
This is probably an urban legend. Or at least there's no evidence for it. His artists drew almost everything and the nose wasn't there in the drawings though it could have already happened.
It's interesting that his artists caught the vertical lines on the east side of G1 (Khufu's Pyramid) and these lines are very faint today and require just the right camera angle to see. These lines are all over the great pyramids yet no one seems to have seen them until now. There are deep vertical grooves on G1 that egyptologists don't talk about in polite company since these don't fit their preconcieved notions. You can see them in th second picture down here;
http://www.catchpenny.org/concave.html
Another feature that's rarely mentioned can be seen in the first picture. The sides are indented so that the shadow plays across them exactly at noon on th equinoxes. Since they're also in a line with the solstice this means that the pyramids would serve as both a clock and a calender and could be seen from as far away as the hills of Lebanon. The vertical lines describe the routes the stones took to the top and prove there were no ramps.
Everything you've ever been told about the pyramids and their builders is probably wrong.