A brief evaluation of Kate Spence's article in NATURE Vol. 408,
16 November 2000, pp. 320-324 "Ancient Egyptian Chronology and
the Astronomical Orientation of Pyramids." By Robert G. Bauval 6
January 2001 The findings in the above titled paper, which was
supported in the same Nature issue by an article from Dr. Owen
Gingerich, the veteran astronomer from Harvard , have been
vented in the international press in at least 20 countries and
in hundreds of dot.com news-lists as a major Egyptological
event. In the paper the author, Dr. Kate Spence of the Faculty
of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge, well-known
to British viewers for her appearance on BBC Horizon 'Atlantis
Reborn' and other ancient history programmes, makes the
following claims: - Dating the Giza Pyramids: That the Egyptian
pyramids at Giza have never been accurately dated. -
Simultaneous Transit Method: That the method used by the ancient
builders in their attempt to determine true north was by
aligning a plumb-line to the 'invisible l