"Another way is to buy a feckin GPS! Take areading at all three sites and plot them on some graph paper. If you can draw a straight line through them then you're not doing too badly."
I doubt whether prehistoric man had access to graph paper let alone GPS!
Talking about lining things up over hills, isn't it remarkable that the Egyptians managed to square the base of the Great Pyramid to within a few centimetres with a feckin great natural rock outcrop right in the middle, making it impossible to check the diagonals by direct measurement. I reckon they must have used radial distances from a pole on top of the hill on the basis that if each corner is the same distance from the top of the pole and all the sides are equal they must form a square. Actually it's the first time I've thought about this, but the method effectively constructs a "string" pyramid and that would be a fairly logical way to go about the task for somebody whose purpose is to build a pyramid.
 Reply | with quote | Posted by Steve Gray
24th November 2004ce
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