Ben van Kerkwyk

Why wouldn't you just take it and build cities?

So they were right up until the thirties.

They were just wagon loads and wagon loads and wagon loads of stone every day, every day.

So that place has been used as a quarry for, you have to, similar to a lot of places in Egypt for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

And,

But it's so, so what you're looking at is you got to use your imagination to look at the older pictures to even, and even then it's barely a fraction.

I think of what's actually there under the ground.

But what's interesting is Posnanski figured out that if you stand in the middle of that, of the West wall, like so looking this way.

And if you looked at the corner pillars on the East wall, it showed you the sun on the, on the solstices would rise exactly on the outside corners of,

of these pillars.

Now, it looks like that to the eye, but if you measure it with

Precision instruments, you find it's about 18 minutes off now.

And so when it was aligned, so it's similar to that, the Sphinx, and like when was it lined up with Leo?

So when was the structure lined up exactly on the solstices?

And so the motion of the Earth that would affect that is called the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic.

It's another one of the Milankovitch cycles.

So you have, we talked about precession of the equinoxes, which is the wobble.

So then you also have this tilt, like this change in the tilt of the Earth.

So the actual tilt goes back and forth, I think, between 22 and 25 degrees, something like that.

But it's a 41,000-year cycle.