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Summary: Read it !!!!
Review: A good book and well written. Robert Bauval has obviously done his homework , though I would say if you were going to read any book of this genre I would still make it Keeper of Genesis with Graham Hancock
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Summary: Worth reading
Review: Bauval and Gilbert present a lucid and well researched thesis on a historically sensationalist topic. This book is well worth the read, and spends enough time presenting raw facts that the speculation found in the later chapters seems plausible. Regardless of your background, this book will fascinate you and at least spark an interest in Egypt's archaeology.
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Summary: Fascinating.........
Review: Being a novice on the pyraminds, I found this book absolutely fascinating. To think that all those years ago the people of Egypt could have known that much information about the stars is amazing. We usually think of these people as undeveloped, but if the pyramids are truly as complex as these two think than we are talking a whole different ball game. As a novice, I do have a couple of comments about how the book was written. For the most part it flowed fairly smooth. There were a couple of spots where I felt the authors delved a "little too deep" with technical information. But than again, the book was intended to bring attention from the professional fiend about their work, not to be read by a woman engineer who has no experience with the pyramids. One warning, have a lot of time if you are not familiar with the pyramids because it will take you awhile to get thru all the information and make sense of it all.
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Summary: Alternative insight spark new interest in pyramids
Review: For those who are interested in the pyramids, this book cut across very strong conventional thinking of what they are thought to be and sprout new insights into their purpose. For those who support the underdogs, the story of the obstacles the author faced to bring us this alternative insight is also worth reading about. After first reading this book in 1994, my interest in the pyramids was rekindled and my suspicion of their purpose lifted slightly. My sixth sense have always told me that the pyramids are not just tombs, even for pharaohs. To view them as a stellar temples are more "acceptable conventionally". Are we a step closer to finding out the truth about the pyramids? I remember a time what someone suggest that the earth is round when the catholic church believe that it is flat. Perhaps, we are heading in the right direction this time. I first read about the Pyramid Text in this book.
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Summary: It's the plan, not the pyramid
Review: From "Red October" we hear the line: "Son, the average Russian doesn't take a dump without a plan." Why do YOU think the ancient Egyptians built the pyramid(s). Bauval presents his plan that you must read, then explore in your own mind. Would anyone go to that much trouble, over and over again, to bury a few kings? No, there is a greater message, conveyed through the ages. Are we too "advanced" in our own minds to open them and look at the evidence again? Read this book.
Ponder it, and read it again.
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Summary: Amazingly boring
Review: Granted, the author got some interesting ideas. But why does he hide them for the most part of the book? About 80% of the book is a repetitive description of different facts, theories and opinions, with the author arguing about "what is not correct", and no clue at what is he getting at. Well, not fare, he gives some clues, but not more. Sometimes it looks like he's got carried away with a need to talk (or write) without any point to deliver.
Again, that's not to say that he does not have any interesting things inside, he certainly has. It's just those interesting things would fit into 20 pages if described without well-known, repetitive and not-so-exciting things.
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Summary: Simply Fantastic
Review: I am a little biased since the writer is my Uncle, but I live in Australia and the facts that are presented in this book, seem to be so perfect in every detail, all sides of the issue have been examined and problems dealed with. You must go to experience the feel of Egypt and it's magestic Pyramids. This book creates such a hunger for that knowledge and experience. Be sure to read Bauval's and Hancock's next triumph, Keeper of Genesis.
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Summary: An interesting read with new and fresh ideas!
Review: I find "THE ORION MYSTERY" an interesting book, and was quite hard to put down after reading the 1st chapter. Robert Bauval introduces new revolutionary theories that the Egyptians were not a heliocentric (solar-based) culture but an astral (star-based) one. Also included in his book are interesting details of the Upuaut 2 robotic exploration of the shafts in the Great Pyramid of Khufu. His writing was very down-to-earth and not confusing or scientific - a wonderful book for anyone interested in Egypt and the pyramids.
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Summary: The Orion Mystery - Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids
Review: I found this book to be absolutely stunning. A 'must read' for amateur Egyptologist. This book unlocks one of the most interesting secrets of the Pyramids at Giza and shows evidence of a long range organized master plan of the layout of the pyramids that must have been conceived many years before they were built. The relationship to the stars is uncanny and so accurate that the writer claims he is able to date the exact construction period of the pyramids within 50 years of the date they were actually built. I was convinced without a doubt that the pyramids were built with measuring tools that have yet to be discovered. This books lays claim to one such tool although the actual physical device has proved elusive and only drawings exist to date. The book leaves you hanging for a part II, which shows new convincing evidence that yet another hidden chamber, may exist in one of the pyramids that may contain the designs and the signature of the king who built it. As of the writing of this book, the door to this room was discovered but not yet opened. (An investigation was planned for 1994, but no details of this project have been given in this book.) You will also see that the mathematics behind the pyramids are nothing less that electrifying. The relationship between the angles used and the rising sun and the relationship to other cities that may reference other stars, will keep you glued till the end. It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that the pyramids are a well-planned map of the stars...but you be the judge.
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Summary: Best on the Subject
Review: I have read many "wacky" theories on the pyramids over the years. I thought that this would be one more. Instead, I found it to be well researched, and quite logical. It brought me into a deeper meaning of the religious beliefs of ancient Egypt. There were no alien or U.F.O. theories, or outlandish claims. It was a refreshing , and in my opinion, valid theory regarding the thoughts and ideas behind the building of a "wonder of the world".
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