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Summary: Detailed and different.
Review: I look to books to give me food for thought and this one was a feast. I also recommend Hancock's books and Doherty's AREA 51 series.
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Summary: This was the most facinating book I've ever read.
Review: I thought that The Orion Mystery was very facinating. I have always liked ancient mysteries and what they are connected to, kinds of books. This book proposed a specifically interesting mystery. The book was about a group of pyramids from Egypt's forth dynasty. It said that the group of pyramids coincided with the orion constellation. It also says that the pyramids are on the exact position of the stars in this particular constellation. The Benben stone that the egyptians believe to be linked to the creation of the world was also in these pyramids. I believe that The Orion Mystery made me want to keep reading and also to read other books to keep finding out about these pyramids in Egypt. I found myself unable to put it down. I liked this book because it did not propose anything inpossible but something that you could actually believe. I think that if you like this sort of mystery or like to here about Egyption findings I think you will definately find that you like this book.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I was captivated by this book fo a while and It got me real interested in Egyptology.
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Summary: A Refreshing Look at History BUT Too Much Overlooked
Review: I was fully convinced about the author's conclusions as to the purpose of the pyramids. My only complaint was that he did not address some of the other mysteries of these structures. For instance, he did not address the fact that the Great Pyramid lies at the exact latitude and longitude on the earth's surface that has the most land mass. No other latitude has more land mass running east-west and no other longitude has more land mass running north-south. Look at a globe. I find this too much of a coincidence. The other mystery not discussed was the "pyramid inch." The unit of measure the Egyptians used to build the pyramids roughly equals our standard inch. Thier inch is exactly equal to 1/500,000,000 of the distance from the North Pole to the South Pole. If you try this calculation you will see that our standard inch is almost equal to this distance. Somewhere in history our inch became distorted. Lastly, the author talked at great length about th! e sarcophagus inside the Great Pyramid, but never mentioned the fact that the dimensions of the sarcophagus are exactly equal to the dimensions stated in the Old Testament for the Ark of the Covenant. Another coincidence? If these questions and issues were addressed or even mentioned, I could have given this book 5 stars.
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Summary: The SAH-(MA) discovered through new evidence.
Review: I'm a Dr. of Buddhology with a smattering of interest in Egyptology and found this book and saw the discovery program concerning Mr. Bauval. I've written 6 books myself that are translations of ancient Pali in the Buddhist faith which date back to 450 BC. What is important regarding this book, is that the ORION that Mr. Bauval speaks of is part of a fascinating new translation of the Ariya Atthangika Magga in Buddhist studies wherein that area of the world believed in CONJOINING WITH THE SAH (Orion). I found Mr. Bauvals book to be fascinating regarding the Orion mystery and it very very closely parallels my own ancient Pali scripture translations of the Indus Valley whom Buddhologists and Archeologists know for a fact that had trade and contact with Ancient Egypt from the architecture and many other discoveries. [. . ..] As a author of numerous books myself and a great appreciator of men with vision and drive, this book is far beyond 5 stars. Dr. of Buddhology, author, discoverer of the importance of the SAH (ORION) link in the Ancient Indus Valley; Ven. Shakya Aryanatta.kenleew@earthlink.net
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Summary: A must read, especially for the academic egyptologists
Review: I'm an italian reader, 39, architect. This great book is the last demonstration of what kind of demages can be done by the academic environment in its effort to keep the culture inside the universities, schools and similars, instead to help it to propagate whitin the people. In this book are uncovered more than 100 years of guilty blindness about this reality, the Pyramids, that do contain a great part of our cultural origins.
The authors argued in a way that - frankly speaking - it seems quite difficult to dispute. They bring proofs that come from the direct observation and from the direct experience.
This book is fantastic, a must read for everyone who loves the ancient Egypt culture, and for those who want to find a way for to approach or to improve their knowledge about the "Land of the River".
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Summary: Quite shocking!
Review: I've not read much on ancient Egypt. In fact I bought this book at a bargain used book store. It was cheap and looked interesting. But I had no idea of the shocking information I was to stumble upon. I would like to shake Baulval's hand and congradulate him on his splendid work. If you ever have the money to buy this book it is worth every cent.
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Summary: An exhaustively researched Theory on the Great Pyramids.
Review: Mr. Bauval and Mr. Gilbert have compiled information from noted Egyptologists, such as Dr. I. E. Edwards, and coupled it with modern technology and discovered some staggering coincidences. Using the much ignored Pyramid Texts found at the 5th Century pyramids of Unas, Bauval and Gilbert have used common sense and the Egyptian's religion to explain what in fact are the world's greatest religious monuments. This is not a book about aliens coming down and building the pyramids or any such nonsense. This is a well researched and plausible theory. Check it out
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Summary: AMAZING
Review: Next to Grahm Hancock, Robert Bauval is the creme de la creme of astro-archeology. Everything you thought you knew about the pyramids is WRONG. In the future the work of Bauval and Hancock is the marker that determines our understanding of ancient works like The Great Pyramid. We are in a 'new age' of understanding our past thanks to the works of geniuses like Bauval and Hancock. AMAZING
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Summary: As above, so below
Review: Sometimes, the obvious is not so. Considering the antiquity of the Egyptian civilization and the still new science of Egyptology, Bauval's ideas are refreshing but not surprising. A lucid author, he approaches the pyramids with playful curiosity, not as ponderous as Graham Hancock, but not as thoroughly, either. Bauval's observations about the "master plan" at Giza are inspired, but just the beginning of a larger investigation, something I expect we will enjoy for many years as he and others dare to understand the Plateau and its meaning. Bauval's observation about the organization of the pyramids and the belt of Orion indicate that Giza was not constructed to "hide" secrets as perpetuated by Dr. Zahi Hawass, but that like discovering the answer to a riddle, what we expect to see, affects more than what we actually see. Although the book does not explore the "how" of Giza, it does present new questions and answers concerning the "why."
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