The Egypt Code

by Robert Bauval

Overview

Why did the ancients align their monuments so precisely with the stars? What were the practical and symbolic reasons behind these mysterious configurations? From the author of The Orion Mystery, the bestselling book that introduced the revolutionary starcorrelation theory about the Giza pyramids, The Egypt Code reveals an amazing Grand Unified Plan behind the legendary temples of upper Egypt.

Robert Bauval, one of the world's most prominent and controversial Egyptologists, completes his groundbreaking investigation of astronomy as related to Egyptian monuments and related religious texts. The Egypt Code revisits the Pyramid Age and the Old Kingdom, proposing a vast skyground correlation for the MemphiteHeliopolis region, and presenting the possibility of a grand plan spanning three thousand years of Pharaonic civilization and involving pyramids and major temple sites along the Nile.

The central idea of the book is that the cosmic order, which the ancients referred to as "Maat," was comprised of the observable cycles of the sun and stars, in particular the star Sirius, and that the changes that took place due to the precession of the equinoxes and the socalled Sothic Cycle are reflected in the orientation and location of religious sites.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934708491
Publisher:	Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date:	07/01/2010
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	501,929
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Born in Egypt and having lived there and elsewhere in the Middle East for much of his life, Robert Bauval has published several papers linking the pyramids with astronomy, and his findings have been presented at the British Museum. He has also written three books with bestselling author Graham Hancock (Message of the Sphinx, Talisman, and The Mars Mystery).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Publisher's Note xi

Introduction xv

Chapter 1 The Star at the Head of the Sky 1

Chapter 2 The Quest for Eternity 32

Chapter 3 The Duat of Memphis 67

Chapter 4 As Above, So Below 101

Chapter 5 The Return of the Phoenix 132

Chapter 6 Lord of Jubilees 154

Conclusion: The 'Code' and the Temple of the Cosmos 182

Appendices

1 Running the Heb-sed 190

2 On the Possible Discovery of Precessional Effects in Ancient Astronomy 202

3 An Overview of the Orion Correlation Theory (OCT): Was the angle of observation 52.2 degrees south of east? 232

4 The Cosmic Order, the Egyptian Calendar and Christianity 250

5 The Death of the Living God 258

6 The Cattle People and the Stars 275

7 The Lost Kingdom of Yam: The Search for the Ancestors 284

Notes 290

Index 320

List of Illustrations

1 Astronomical ceiling of the Tomb of Senmut 3

2 The statue of the pharoah Djaser in the serdab 7

3 Representation of Sirius and Orion during the Middle Kingdom 10

4 The goddess Nut (the sky) 16

5 The various astronomical cycles known to the Ancient Egyptians 36

6 Details of the boundary wall of the Djoser complex 47

7 Map of the Memphite Necropolis 70

8 Map of the Giza-Ausim-Heliopolis region 72

9 Isometric view of the Giza Plateau, Letopolis and Heliopolis 76

10 Plan of the 'Birth of Isis' temple at Dendera 103

11 Artist's view from the 'observatory of Eudoxus' at Letopolis (modern Ausim) 110

12 Plan of Evolution of the Satet temple on Elephantine Island 116

13 Plan of the Satet temple 118

14 Orientation of the Great Temple of the Aten at Tell El Amarna 171

15 Nabta Playa & Dendera 282