Yeah, ten parts and we haven’t covered the half of it yet… What does that suggest about what Stonehenge is? What now? I bet we’re all very curious now what the Aubrey Center offset does to the message of the sarcen circle, I know I certainly am – but we can get back to thatContinue reading “More About Stonehenge, Pt 10”
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More About Stonehenge, Pt 9
EXCERPTS FROM THE AUBREY EXPERIMENTS In case it had something to offer us, yesterday I experimented with trying to figure out what the point might be of the Aubrey Center being off-centered. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anyone give an accounting for that and it seems like a very strange thing without someContinue reading “More About Stonehenge, Pt 9”
Scrutinizing Stonehenge
This may be hard to explain, so please bear with me here. Having Stonehenge seemingly volunteer data on the Eclipse Year, I’m wanting to take stock of just how much planetary data we have already seen it expressing, and I’d like to see how it might express whatever is missing for that list. One problemContinue reading “Scrutinizing Stonehenge”
The Interpretive Use of Royal Cubits and the Mysteries of Chephren
I come to an interesting place in my adventures with ancient architecture and metrology, where I’m seemingly asked to give up my beliefs without actually giving them up. It may not be a difficult choice, but it does seem something of a strange one. Have I gotten lost? How did I get to such aContinue reading “The Interpretive Use of Royal Cubits and the Mysteries of Chephren”
What Else Is New?
On the one hand, it’s a precariously (or perhaps preposterously) ambitious thing to do to try to work out finer details of Stonehenge and Giza at the same time; on the other hand, the two developing views may complement and illuminate one another as discoveries seem to begin happening at a sometimes almost alarming rate.Continue reading “What Else Is New?”
More About Stonehenge, Pt 5
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”
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 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”
Some Recent Observations on the Mycerinus Pyramid at Giza
Recently Jim Wakefield on GHMB brought up Petrie’s data for distances between major pyramids at Giza and proposed there is an order to them that Petrie might not have dug deeply enough into the data to spot. In the course of looking at Petrie’s data again, I decided maybe it was time to take theContinue reading “Some Recent Observations on the Mycerinus Pyramid at Giza”
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