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Graham Hancock – <strong>FINGERPRINTS</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>GODS</strong><br />

The three pyramids of Giza plotted against the three belt stars of the<br />

Orion constellation.<br />

Curiously enough (as we saw in Chapter Thirty-six), this was exactly the<br />

site-plan of the three enigmatic pyramids of the Giza plateau. Bauval<br />

realized that an aerial view of the Giza necropolis would show the Great<br />

Pyramid of Khufu occupying the position of Al Nitak, and the Second<br />

Pyramid of Khafre occupying the position of Al Nilam, while the Third<br />

Pyramid of Menkaure was offset to the east of the diagonal formed by the<br />

other two—thus completing what seemed at first to be a vast diagram of<br />

the stars.<br />

Was this indeed what the Giza pyramids represented? I knew that<br />

Bauval’s later work, which had been wholeheartedly endorsed by<br />

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