Are the pyramids perfectly aligned to Orion's belt?
Are the pyramids perfectly aligned to Orion's belt? The Great Pyramid doesn't align with Orion's Belt, because Orion's Belt moves around the sky. It does align with the North Star, however, which always (approximately) in the same place. (It wobbles a little over a period of thousands of years.) The Great Pyramid is aligned to the compass points.
Was Moses around when the pyramids were built?
Some mistakenly assume that these pyramids were built by the Israelite slaves whom Moses would lead to freedom, but the pyramids were already ancient when Israel was born. They had been standing for at least a thousand years by the time Moses came on the scene.
Are pyramids mentioned in the Bible?
The construction of the pyramids is not specifically mentioned in the Bible. What we believe about their purpose does not impinge on any biblical doctrine.
What did Orion look like to the dinosaurs?
The constellation Orion would be totally unrecognizable as a pattern as the various star are all moving imperceptively slow in different directions and have been doing so for ever. This holds true for every star in the sky. The dinosaurs would have seen nothing in the star patterns as we see today.
How accurate are the pyramids to the stars?
The tombs are aligned north-south with an accuracy of up to 0.05 degrees. How the Egyptians did this has been unclear. Today, you could align a building north-south by pointing the sides towards the pole star, which sits roughly at true north.
How were the pyramids built so accurately?
But what the Egyptians lacked in tools, they made up for with science and engineering precision. Smith explains that they developed and used the cubit rod to measure and lay out the dimensions of the pyramid; a square level to level horizontal surfaces, and a 3:4:5 framing square to create precision 90-degree angles.
How did Egyptians know true north?
Spence speculates that Egypt's pyramid builders found true north by using a plumb line: when the stars Kochab and Mizar were seen on the same vertical, one was facing north1.