The Orion Mystery


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Robert Bauval, author of the best-selling 'The Orion Mystery', gave a talk at the CB1 Cybercafe, on Wednesday 13th of September, 1995. To tie in with this, we at AA&ES produced a WWW site exploring Bauval's ideas.

Introduction

Over the past 200 years great advances have been made in our understanding of ancient Egyptian culture. From knowing virtually nothing we have now reached a stage where we are able to translate directly from hieroglyphs.
But many mysteries remain largely unsolved:
For many years classical Egyptologists maintained that the Pyramids were merely grandiose tombs to commemorate dead Pharoahs, built by slave labour and laid out in a relatively unstructured manner. However, recent work by Robert Bauval has shed an intriguing new light on the issue.

He realized that the relative sizes, and detailed positioning of, the Giza pyramids were a faithful mimicry of the stars forming the 'belt' in the constellation of Orion. In addition, it transpired that the supposed 'air shafts' in the pyramids actually pointed directly towards Orion, apparently with the aim of projecting the soul of the deceased king out towards the constellation.

These discoveries alone re-wrote our understanding of the motivations for building the pyramids and the state of technological advance of the ancient culture. But the plot continues to thicken with a robotic camera sent into the shafts recently enabling the discovery of a door to a previously unknown secret chamber deep within the structure. Rumours abound that imminent discoveries may even more radically change our perception of ancient civilisation...

To find out more, why not click on each of the following links?

Read the book in full

cover The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids
If you want to read the Orion Mystery in full you might want to purchase the book online. [buy now]
cover The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind by Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval
You may also be interested in the "follow up" to The Orion Mystery. "In this riveting account of historical and archaeological investigation, the authors present hard evidence that the Sphinx, the Pyramids, and the other monuments at Giza are of far more ancient origin than previously believed. Complete with evidence of a conspiracy between the Egyptology establishment and various confidential organizations to keep the secrets of the Pyramids from the world, The Message of the Sphinx is also a modern-day detective story. " [buy now]
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Graphic copyright owned by Robert G. Bauval.
The Orion Mystery is published by Heinemann.
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