What do the pyramids point to in the sky?

Two researchers, Virginia Trimble and Alexander Badawy, found that one of the shafts seems to aim in the general direction of where the north star would've been when the pyramids were constructed. The other shaft, generally, points toward Orion's Belt.



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The pyramids line up -- more or less -- along this line. The ancient Egyptians aligned their pyramids and temples to the north because they believed their pharaohs became stars in the northern sky after they died. But while the Great Pyramid is aligned with the north, the other pyramids are all slightly off.

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Many people have said that the pyramids would last 1 million years or even until the world ended, but I'd say around 10,000 to 100,000 years based on current observations.

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The construction of the pyramids is not specifically mentioned in the Bible. What we believe about their purpose does not impinge on any biblical doctrine.

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The corridor is 30 feet long and likely slopes upward. Where it leads is still a mystery. Map of the known corridors and rooms inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. Evidence of a secret corridor was detected in 2016 behind the famed chevron blocks on the north face (h).

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Although tourists were once able to freely climb the pyramids, that is now illegal. Offenders face up to three years in prison as penalty. In 2016 a teenage tourist was banned from visiting Egypt for life after posting photos and videos on social media of his illicit climb.

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Pyramids today stand as a reminder of the ancient Egyptian glorification of life after death, and in fact, the pyramids were built as monuments to house the tombs of the pharaohs. Death was seen as merely the beginning of a journey to the other world.

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The unknowns of pyramid construction chiefly center on the question of how the blocks were moved up the superstructure. There is no known accurate historical or archaeological evidence that definitively resolves the question.

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The constellation Orion would be totally unrecognizable as a pattern as the various star are all moving imperceptively slow in different directions and have been doing so for ever. This holds true for every star in the sky. The dinosaurs would have seen nothing in the star patterns as we see today.

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