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“Not Venus”?

I was browsing through some notes on Chacmultun – to my tastes, it’s a rather fascinating Mayan city, and we have the great fortune that George Andrews gathered some data on it and that it is available to us, although I admit to not yet having the firmest grasp on whether or not Andrew’s dataContinue reading ““Not Venus”?”

The Giza Blueprint Revisited

Apologies for things being quiet around here as of late – I’ve decided to have another try at a rather daunting and rather time-consuming but important project. It’s been a popular topic of conversation whether Giza (and other pyramid complexes) might be laid out according to some grand, overarching scheme. researcher Dennis (“DUNE”) Payne hasContinue reading “The Giza Blueprint Revisited”

A Postcard from Quirigua (and Giza)

I may end up taking that this back at some later point – I seem to be in unfamiliar territory with this, both geographically and mathematically – but I thought I might share with readers some of the last puzzle to get on my radar, since whatever the answers may be, parts of the discussionContinue reading “A Postcard from Quirigua (and Giza)”

Sir WMF Petrie and His Amazing Metamorphic Cubit

He has been called both “The Father of Egyptian Archaeology” and “The Father of Palestinian Archaeology”. Many serious alternative researchers like myself look to WMF Petrie‘s comprehensive and impeccable gathering of measurements of Egyptian pyramids with confidence and even reverence. Sadly, though Petrie’s work was absolutely exemplary, few if any Egyptologists to follow seem toContinue reading “Sir WMF Petrie and His Amazing Metamorphic Cubit”

A Note on the “Mayan Meter”

In the last post, I pointed out how Maler’s data for the El Castillo pyramid at Chichen Itza gives a horizontal distance of 2000 cm from the edge of the temple platform to the edge of the base on any side, and recounted how, as pointed out by Munck, a recurring figure of 200 cmContinue reading “A Note on the “Mayan Meter””

El Castillo (Reprise)

I may not have made a note of it in my blog posts (although I seem to remember mentioning it to the GHMB forum), but if we project a regular model of the El Castillo pyramid from Maler’s data, when we get to the perimeter it would be (2 x long side 600 / PiContinue reading “El Castillo (Reprise)”

El Castillo (Slight Return)

There are perhaps several things for now that deserve mention, that I opted to leave out of the last post for the sake of tidiness. Concerning the “false square root pair” complement to the suggested “virtual” diagonal value 268.3798532 ft, 72000 / 268.3798532 = 268.2764714. To be honest, I’m still learning about what 268.3798532 mightContinue reading “El Castillo (Slight Return)”

Chichen Itza’s El Castillo Pyramid

Recently someone inquired at GHMB about the El Castillo pyramid’s expression of the Solar Year, one of things that El Castillo is well known for. What exactly the pyramid was doing, if anything, about the difference between the 365 “calendar” year and the ~365.25 day Solar Year, seems difficult to say, although I’ve often wonderedContinue reading “Chichen Itza’s El Castillo Pyramid”

Seahenge

A thread on the Megalithic Portal started some 4 or 5 years ago by Geoff Bath was recently booted to the top of the board, and it managed to spark my curiosity. For some reason, I haven’t been terribly interested in Seahenge or Woodhenge – although Thom provided data on the later, I’ve generally foundContinue reading “Seahenge”

Megalithic Miscellany (including more Callanish)

Working on Callanish again, I find myself wanting another look at more Megalithic monument sites, even if nothing definitive emerges yet. In Megalithic Remains in Britain and Brittany (page 164), Thom describes the geometry of The Giant’s Stones (OSGB Grid ref HU243805) as part of a circle of radius 28 Megalithic Yards joined to aContinue reading “Megalithic Miscellany (including more Callanish)”