January 08, 2020 08:33PM
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Hi Chris
Many years back I printed out Gantenbrink's sectional diagrams of the shafts to find their general trending. The KC shaft axes appeared to converge at a point 22c horizontally from pyramid centre and 77 cubits above pyramid base, seemingly confirming Gantenbrink's shaft layout scheme (the intersection of shaft line and pyramid side being 154 cubits above base in this case) -
The QC shafts appear to converge on the central axis (about 36 cubits above base) -
Using your figures for star altitudes, I superimposed them on the pyramid section, locating their points of intersection as described above -
It is interesting that if the line of Alnilam AB is extendend, it intersects the Kochab line (C) at (D). This point is vertically below (E), or the intersection of the Thuban line with the pyramid side, much nearer to Petrie's figure for KC north shaft exit about 152 cubits above base. The star altitude lines fit the shafts as built rather well. It may be that the authorities will in due course reveal refined shaft data, and the builders may have adjusted angles for various reasons, but to me the correspondences are close enough to identify the shafts as 'starshafts' - linking the king with his destiny among the stars.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2020 09:09PM by robin cook.
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