Views : 119,708
Genre: Science & Technology
Date of upload: Oct 11, 2017 ^^
Rating : 4.814 (89/1,823 LTDR)
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I'm going through your older videos and find them interesting and valuable. A while back I took Coursera class on astro-archaeology. This professor claimed the shafts in the Great Pyramid of Khufu could not be ventilation shafts because vertical ones would sufficed and have been easier to make. He also claimed that the south facing shafts pointed to the stars in Orion's belt and Sirius. His conclusion was that the shafts were to "direct symbolically the Pharaoh to his proper destinations in the sky."
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I fell in love with you at around 1:40 with that flat earth joke
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@cheekiblin690
1 year ago
Early astronomy sounds more challenging than it does now due to a lot of reliance on assumptions, even Eratosthenes had to assume the distance between Alexandria and Seyene. Ptolemy's idea of epicycles and the difference around Earth to explain retrograde motion was very interesting, and definitely a thinker in his free time!
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