{"title":"THE ARCHITECTONIC ENCODING OF THE MINOR LUNAR STANDSTILLS IN THE HORIZON OF THE GIZA PYRAMIDS","authors":"H. Aboulfotouh","doi":"10.5281/ZENODO.14336","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The paper is an attempt to show the architectonic method of the ancient Egyptian designers for encoding the horizontal-projections of the moon’s declinations during two events of the minor lunar standstills, in the design of the site-plan of the horizon of the Giza pyramids, using the methods of descriptive geometry. It shows that the distance of the eastern side of the second Giza pyramid from the north-south axis of the great pyramid encodes a projection of a lunar declination, when earth’s obliquity-angle was ~24.10°. Besides, it shows that the angle of inclination of the causeway of the second Giza pyramid, of ~13.54° south of the cardinal east, encodes the projection of another lunar declination when earth’s obliquity-angle reaches ~22.986°. In addition, it shows the encoded coordinate system in the site-plan of the horizon of the Giza pyramids.","PeriodicalId":46130,"journal":{"name":"Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry","volume":"6 1","pages":"343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2014-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14336","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHAEOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The paper is an attempt to show the architectonic method of the ancient Egyptian designers for encoding the horizontal-projections of the moon’s declinations during two events of the minor lunar standstills, in the design of the site-plan of the horizon of the Giza pyramids, using the methods of descriptive geometry. It shows that the distance of the eastern side of the second Giza pyramid from the north-south axis of the great pyramid encodes a projection of a lunar declination, when earth’s obliquity-angle was ~24.10°. Besides, it shows that the angle of inclination of the causeway of the second Giza pyramid, of ~13.54° south of the cardinal east, encodes the projection of another lunar declination when earth’s obliquity-angle reaches ~22.986°. In addition, it shows the encoded coordinate system in the site-plan of the horizon of the Giza pyramids.
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The Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry (MAA) is an Open Access Journal that covers the following interdisciplinary topics: 1. Natural Sciences applied to Archaeology (Archaeometry): Methods and Techniques of Dating, Analysis, Provenance, Archaeogeophysical surveys and Remote Sensing, Geochemical surveys, Statistics, Artifact and Conservation studies, Ancient Astronomy of both the Old and New Worlds, all applied to Archaeology, History of Art, and in general the Hominid Biological and Cultural evolution. 2. Biomolecular Archaeology. 3. Environmental Archaeology. 4. Osteoarchaeology. 5. Digital Archaeology. 6. Palaeo-climatological/geographical/ecological impact on ancient humans. 7. STEMAC (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics in Art and Culture). 8. Reports on Early Science and Ancient Technology. 9. Special Issues on Archaeology and Archaeometry. 10. Palaeolithic, Prehistoric, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Protochristian, Byzantine, Etruscan periods, and Megalithic cultures in the Mediterranean region. 11. Egyptian and Middle Eastern Archaeology. 12. Biblical Archaeology. 13. Early Arab cultures. 14. Ethnoarchaeology. 15. Theoretical and Experimental Archaeology. 16. Mythology and Archaeology. 17. Archaeology and International Law. 18. Cultural Heritage Management. 19. Completed Excavation Reports. 20. Archaeology and the Origins of Writing. 21. Cultural interactions of the ancient Mediterraneans with people further inland.
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