I’m looking at Thom’s Stonehenge data again and I think the time may truly have come for the subject of symmetry breaking, although I haven’t mastered it and I’m not sure of the best way to present it. However, as hopefully demonstrated once again, there is also the matter of min, max and mean forContinue reading “More About Stonehenge, Pt 5”
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The Model of Silbury Hill Last I Checked…
This is due for a review – it goes all the way back to before the “Giza standard” of accuracy on forced approximations was quite recognized – but for what it’s worth I’ll try to piece together a more complete picture of Silbury Hill instead of just referring to its base measures and projected slopeContinue reading “The Model of Silbury Hill Last I Checked…”
An Experiment with a Putative Indus Foot
Jim Wakefield managed to bring the Indus foot to my attention – it’s about 13.2 inches or 13.2 / 12 = 1.1 feet. I’d rather shy away from the subject because it could have been tough determining just how many feet that was supposed to be (1.111111111 for starters?), but I finally noticed that 13.2Continue reading “An Experiment with a Putative Indus Foot”
More About Stonehenge, Pt 4
At the minute, I’m sort of scraping the barrel here and this post may also end up happening a half at a time, but sometimes insights happen while trying to explain something and insights would certainly come in handy right about now. I suggested that the major diameter/minor diameter ratio of the inner Trilithon ellipseContinue reading “More About Stonehenge, Pt 4”
More About Stonehenge, Pt 3
To continue with our experiment in progress, again just a scouting mission for now… We noticed some important looking ratios between major and minor diameter of some of Stonehenge’s ellipses in Pt 2. Here’s where it may start to get a little tricky? Thom’s data gives us 17 Megalithic Yards for the diameter of theContinue reading “More About Stonehenge, Pt 3”
“At Sixes and Sevens”
Maybe there’s a reason that expression came to be. If you ask me, the number 7 is the work of Satan personally, and I like to think I have enough quaint old siting legends for stone circles to back me up on that just a bit. Why is that? Well, many in Egyptological circles likeContinue reading ““At Sixes and Sevens””
More About Stonehenge, Pt 2
I’d like to write this down for posterity but it is very much a work in progress and I don’t know what it means yet, if I ever will. I hope the reader will keep in mind that what is new here is only a preliminary look, merely a scouting mission, if you will. AsContinue reading “More About Stonehenge, Pt 2”
A Few Musings on Petrie and the Orientation of the Giza Pyramids
Twelve years ago after long having to take matters into my own hands with missing details from Munck’s model of Giza, I decided that once and for all I was going to take all of Giza apart piece by piece and leave no uncertainty about their being details that Munck’s ideas couldn’t account for. ThatContinue reading “A Few Musings on Petrie and the Orientation of the Giza Pyramids”
Some Musings on the Nippur Cubit and the Persian Cubit
Some of this I’ve posted elsewhere in various forms, but I don’t know if I’ve ever written anything very comprehensive. I don’t have much to say on the Nippur Cubit, I haven’t paid it enough attention although I did recently nominate a value of 1.689907782 ft as being one possibility, in spite of the temptationContinue reading “Some Musings on the Nippur Cubit and the Persian Cubit”
Lessons With the Master
While Carl Munck’s printed materials may get harder and harder to find, some of his video lectures are circulating via Internet and are easy to locate, and I’d like to recommend them to anyone who might be even remotely interested. Even if we end up having to ignore his conclusions about maps, his conclusions aboutContinue reading “Lessons With the Master”
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