{"id":28826,"date":"2022-02-04T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/?p=103801"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:44:11","slug":"can-astronomy-explain-why-the-egyptians-built-the-pyramids","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/rss_feed\/can-astronomy-explain-why-the-egyptians-built-the-pyramids\/","title":{"rendered":"Can astronomy explain why the Egyptians built the pyramids?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Dr Allan Chapman\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 04 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The pyramids at Giza have fascinated people as far back as we can trace, and even Herodotus was told some odd tales about them by the locals when he was in Egypt around 460 BC.<\/p>\n

Medieval European writers who had never been to Egypt believed that the pyramids were hollow granaries for storing the Pharaoh\u2019s wheat.<\/p>\n

In 1638, John Greaves of Oxford made <\/span>the first reasonably accurate surveys, but <\/span>it was not until 19^{th <\/sup>century linguists and archaeological research in Egypt that the ingenuity of Egyptian astronomy <\/span>and its link to architecture emerged.<\/p>\n}

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