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It depends on where we are in the precession cycle as to whether T'bro or Giza have the closer alignments. The period of precession is about 26,000 years. Hancock would not have looked into the future to find an alignment, so the fact that he had to go back almost half of the total precession time means that T'bro may well have a better alignment by only going back say 5000 years.

Actually, thinking about precession, it sounds like a load of crap that the stars would look any different. There's a much larger parallax change as the Earth orbits the sun than would be observed as a result of precession. If there is a change in the shape of Orion's belt it must be due to Proper Motion of the stars themselves, so Hancock's idea of change due to precession is a load of bollocks.

"If there is a change in the shape of Orion's belt it must be due to Proper Motion of the stars themselves, so Hancock's idea of change due to precession is a load of bollocks."

Exactly my point. And if they are changing, how do we know? We can do the doppler thing for motion away from us but do stars go apparently sideways and how long would it take for us to detect it. Is such a thing shown on the astronomy software?
Oh crikey I hope this isn't going to get into relativity.

I had a thought last night about this. I was out at about 9.30 and at that time the belt was in the west and was pointing more or less north south.

I was thinknig about the mirror image aspect. Why do we think of it as a mirror image? Surely this has a lot to do with perspective, for example if you saw the horizon contunuing into the stars - a heavenly globe - then Thornborough is not a mirror image - like anything there are two ways of looking at this and we are putting our modern knowledge into the minds of people who lacked this info.