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The pyramids have long fascinated Robert Bauval. He is Egyptian,
born in Al-Iskandariyya (Alexandria) to Belgian parents, and has
spent most of his life living and working in the Middle East. For
many years he had pondered over the significance of Sah, the
constellation of Orion, and its link to the pyramids. One night,
while working in Saudi Arabia, he took his family and a friend's
family up into the sand dunes of the Arabian desert for a camping
expedition.
Bauval knew that the seemingly inconsistent layout of the three
Fourth Dynasty pyramids at Giza was no accident, and had applied his
own engineer's mind, and those of many friends to the problem. Most
agreed that the alignment, though unusual, was no accident, given
the precise mathematical knowledge that the Egyptians had.
His friend, a keen amateur astronomer, pointed out Orion, and
mentioned, in passing, that Mintaka, the smaller more easterly of
the stars making up Orion's belt was offset slightly from the
others. Immediately Bauval saw the answer -- the three Belt Stars
were aligned in exactly the same way as the three pyramids!
Bauval checked the alignment in 2450 BCE by precessing the three
Belt Stars back, and found that, due to their close proximity in
space, great distance from Earth, and negligible proper motion, they
looked exactly the same then as they do today. Of course, they had
changed in declination -- then they were just below the celestial
equator, at about -1 degree declination.
The pyramids were a mirror image, the Earthly representation of
the Belt of Orion, the destination of the dead King! The Egyptians
were dualists -- everything they thought and believed was a duality.
Everything had its counterpart, cause and effect, left and right,
East and West, death and rebirth -- nothing was ever seen in
isolation. They had constructed at Giza an exact replica of the Duat
destination of the King. Far from being a tomb, the pyramid was the
starting point of the King's journey back to the stars from whence
he came, back to the First Time.
Bauval initially made use of the astronomy program Skyglobe 3,5 for
the PC. Though too inaccurate for serious work -- it does not take
proper motion, nutation, refraction, for example, into account -- it
was sufficient to clarify Bauval's mind as to the value of his
discovery. Skyglobe 3,5 will plot the Milky Way on its charts if
requested, and doing so added further proof to Bauval's theory. Giza
is West of the Nile -- putting the plane of our galaxy into the
equation showed that Orion is "West" of the Milky Way, in
proportion to Giza and the Nile.
PERSONAL BACKGROUND
Place & Date Of Birth: Alexandria, Egypt 5 March 1948
Schooling: British Boys’s School, Alexandria.
Franciscan College, Bucks, England.
Higher Qualifications: Higher National Diploma in Building
Management (University Of The Southbank, London)
Post-Graduate Diploma in European Marketing (Newland College,
Bucks, UK)
Family Status: Married (to Michele Vayssieres)
Daughter, Candice; Son, Jonathan
Work in Construction Engineering & Management, Marketing
& writing:
Oman, 1973-7 (construction)
Iran, 1977-8 (construction)
Sudan, 1979-80 (engineering)
Guinea, 1970-81 (engineering)
Saudi Arabia, 1980-5 (management)
Australia, 1986-9 (Freelance research)
UK, 1989-Present (writing)
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Keeper
of Genesis
Graham Hancock,
Robert Bauval
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When and where did history begin? When was the
genesis of civilization in Egypt? This text presents
historical and scientific detective work, which provides a
startling new theory concerning the enigmatic Pyramid Texts
and other archaic Egyptian scriptures. The first chapter of
the book deals with the mathematical and geographical
anomalies evidently associated with the Giza necropolis. But
where the book breaks away from any other of the authors
works is the in-depth study of the remnants of Egyptian
texts, the insights into the dualistic nature of Egyptian
consciousness and way of life. The reader is able to glimpse
a fraction of the connection the highest orders of Egyptian
civilisation felt towards the natural world and its
universal celestial cycles, and mankind's inevitable place
in the grand scheme, the quest for the immortality of the
soul...
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The
Message of the Sphinx : A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of
Mankind
Graham
Hancock, Robert Bauval
Argues that the ancient structures at Giza,
including the pyramids and the Sphinx, may be much older
than originally thought, and discusses a mysterious
underground chamber recently detected beneath the Sphinx.
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In this riveting account of historical and
archaeological investigation, the authors present hard
evidence that the Sphinx, the Pyramids, and the other
monuments at Giza are of far more ancient origin than
previously believed. Complete with evidence of a conspiracy
between the Egyptology establishment and various
confidential organizations to keep the secrets of the
Pyramids from the world, The Message of the Sphinx is also a
modern-day detective story. of photos.
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The
Orion Mystery : Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids
by Robert
Bauval & Adrian Gilbert
A revolutionary book that explains the most
enigmatic and fascinating wonder of the ancient world: the
Pyramids of Egypt. An absorbing and fascinating work of
archaeological detection... clearly and rivetingly
told...the book is highly and compulsively readable.
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A 'must read' for amateur Egyptologist. This
book unlocks one of the most interesting secrets of the
Pyramids at Giza and shows evidence of a long range
organized master plan of the layout of the pyramids that
must have been conceived many years before they were built.
The relationship to the stars is uncanny and so accurate
that the writer claims he is able to date the exact
construction period of the pyramids within 50 years of the
date they were actually built.
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The
Mars Mystery : The Secret Connection Between Earth and the
Red Planet
by Graham
Hancock, Robert Bauval
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Are certain formations on the
Martian surface the remnants of an ancient
civilization--one strikingly similar to ancient Egypt--that
was destroyed by a cataclysmic deep impact?
Hancock's ultimate
point is that we should be paying more attention to our
planetary neighbours and the skies above, lest we suffer the
same fate as the Martians. Hancock raises many intriguing
questions in this synthesis of unorthodox Mars theory...
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The
Orion Mystery : Are the Pyramids a Map of Heaven?
by Robert
Bauval
October 1993
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Monuments
to Life Vol. 2 - Robert
VHS
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What were the ancients trying to tell us when
they built the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx? If Robert
Bauval, coauthor of Message of the Sphinx, is right, we
might be on the verge of finding out. Monuments to Life,
Vol. 2 records a lecture Bauval presented at Leeds
University in 1996 on the astronomical significance of these
structures. Bauval is both fascinating and wildly funny as
he takes jab after well-deserved jab at the Egyptological
establishment, which ignores his work and that of coauthor
Graham Hancock. You'll learn of the importance of the
constellation Orion and other celestial formations to the
Egyptians as well as the other postulated highly advanced
culture that came before them and left their legacy in these
enormous monuments. The data Bauval presents seems striking
and is rarely marred by the fuzziness of his slides; it
could well be that he and Hancock are on to something, but
only time will tell. --Rob Lightner |
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