The Orion Theory

In the direction of the constellation Orion, approximately centered on the Great Orion Nebula M42 and M43, there drifts a giant cloud of interstellar gas and dust within the Milky Way galaxy. This cloud was formed when a density wave, related to the Galaxy's spiral structure, moved through the medium of the Galactic disk. It is about 1600 light years away and several hundred light years across.

This is an aerial picture of the Memphite Necropolis Site at Giza, south-west of Cairo. Look carefully at the way the Pyramids are aligned. At first glance they seem to be imperfectly positioned. Classical Egyptologists maintain that this was either a mistake or a result of the terrain in the Giza Plateau. Compare this to the image of the Belt Stars of Orion and things become a little clearer. Far from being a mistake, the Pyramids are aligned almost exactly as the Belt Stars appear!

 Although Virginia Trimble and Alexander Badawy first noticed that the "air" shafts in the King's Pyramid pointed towards the constellation of Orion, Bauval was the first to notice that the alignment of the Pyramids was a very precise mirror image of the Belt Stars of Orion. He called this the Correlation Theory, which forms the backbone of his current research. 

 During the Eighties Bauval was working on a big construction project in Saudi Arabia in his other guise as an engineer. In the evenings he was in the habit of taking his family and friends out into the desert for a barbecue. Late one night when the family had all gone to sleep Bauval and a friend sat talking around the fire. His friend, also an engineer but an amateur astronomer, pointed out the constellation of Orion rising over the dunes. He mentioned in passing that the stars seem to be imperfectly aligned, not forming a straight diagonal, but with one star offset slightly. To the engineer's eye this was merely annoying, but as he explained Bauval felt a jolt through his spine -- the star's alignment almost matched the Pyramids at Giza! 

 Also the recent discovery of a little-known official NASA "logo" the official insignia of the entire Apollo Program to the Moon now raises the level of the mystery veiling Ancient Egypt to unprecedented levels and forces us to ask: "What could be the Link between official, scientific NASA and a thousands-of-years-old religious mythology direct from ancient Egypt and the Pyramids? "Via an official Apollo Logo which is none other than "Osiris" the constellation of "Orion" and the Pyramids?" And why does NASA 30 years after the Apollo Program currently have an entire spaceship named after the mythological precedent of those same Pyramids a Space Shuttle called "Atlantis"? Who has known "What" about our Past and for how long?