00:00In 1983, a Belgian engineer looked at a photo of the night sky and noticed something that
00:05would either rewrite the history of the pyramids or become one of the most convincing looking
00:10myths in modern archaeology, depending on who you ask.
00:13He saw three stars in Orion's belt, slightly offset from a straight line.
00:18Then he looked at the three pyramids of Iza, and they were offset the exact same way.
00:22The pyramids were built as a giant map of Orion's belt, but real Egyptologists have
00:27spent decades pushing back on it hard.
00:28So which side is right?
00:30By the end of this video, you will have everything explained.
00:33The actual claim, the astronomy behind it, and the specific reasons mainstream archaeology
00:38rejects it, less the astronomical secrets the pyramids do hold.
00:42The man who came up with this theory did not stop at three stars.
00:45He extended his idea to claim the entire Nile River represents the Milky Way and that the
00:50ancient Egyptians imported a date going back over 12,000 years into their monomats.
00:55That claim is where this theory quickly falls apart.
00:57And we will get to exactly why in a moment.
01:00Orion's belt is made up of three stars, Alnithaq, Alnilam, and Mintaka, and they don't sit in
01:05a perfectly straight line.
01:06Mintaka, the dimension of the three, is offset slightly to one side.
01:10At Giza, the three main pyramids, Hufu, Khafre, and the Monokre also are not in a perfectly
01:14straight line.
01:15And the smallest Monokre is offset in a similar direction.
01:18That visual similarity is the entire foundation of what is called the Orion correlation theory.
01:23To make the star pattern match the pyramid layout, you have to flip the map of the sky 180 degrees,
01:29so the north becomes south.
01:30Critics have pointed out for years that when researchers measure the actual angles and spacing
01:35with real astronomical software, rather than eye-bearing two images side by side, the positions
01:40do not line up with the kind of precision, the theory claims.
01:43The distances between the pyramids and the distances between the stars do not scale correctly,
01:48and the corner stars researchers speak to make the patterns work are not even the closest
01:52stars to their supposedly matching pyramids.
01:54To make the dates line up, specifically the idea that this layout captures the sky as it
01:58appeared around 10,500 BC.
02:01The theory requires the pyramid builders, working around 2,500 BC, to have been encoding knowledge
02:06from an era 8,000 years before their own civilization even existed, with zero surviving texts for
02:12inscriptions describing any such land.
02:14Mainstream Egyptology also holds that ancient Egyptian religion was primarily centered on
02:19the sun and the solar boards, not the stars, which is a separate reason many historians remain
02:23skeptical.
02:24So does that mean the pyramids have nothing to do with astronomy?
02:27Not even close.
02:28And this is genuine well-documented knowledge about everything the builders actually did achieve.
02:33The Great Pyramid's base is leveled to within about 2 centimeters across 230 miles, and its
02:39sides are aligned to true north, with remarkable accuracy, most likely achieved by tracking
02:43circumpolar stars like the Theopan and the Pochab as they rotate around the celestial pole.
02:48Is the Orion correlation real?
02:50The honest answer with everything explained is that the visual pattern is generally striking,
02:54but the specific scientific and historical claims built on top of it do not hold up to
02:59the precise measurement or the archaeological record.
03:02What is actually more impressive is that we do not need an unproven star map to be amazed
03:06by these structures.
03:07The confirmed astronomical engineering already on display at Pisa is remarkable enough on its own.
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