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The sky was the limit for the Pyramid builders

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Dinah Ashman explains how modern astronomy may have put a new date on the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza.

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  1. Spence, K. Ancient Egyptian chronology and the astronomical orientation of pyramids. Nature 408, 320 - 324 .2000. /pubyear>

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Ashman, D. The sky was the limit for the Pyramid builders. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news001116-10

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