... are some things by many to be seen as coincidences that could help us uncover the truth of the Sphinx. The rotation of the Earth has phases. Throughout a period of over fifty thousand years the Earth's rotation changes. The position of stars in the sky will change either farther or closer to the horizon. Therefore there is a maximum height which a certain star will reach before it ... The First Time,"" of Osiris. The first time was considered to be the nadir of the constellation of Orion, being the time when the constellation first appeared at its lowest position on the horizon. When doin...

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... 's end. It was too much to ask Egyptians to change their beliefs and traditions. Before his death, Amenhotep would attempt to change the capital city from Thebes to Akhetaten (Horizon of Aten), a new city about 200 miles north of Thebes. In the process he lost Syria and Canaan. His changes would be undone soon after his death by those who influenced his successor ... , the young Tutankhamun. He returned the government to Thebes and restored the old gods before he died in 1338 B.C.E.. 6. Hattusha - Hattusha was the capital of the Hittite Empire from 1650 ... chose to let his men sleep tha...

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... supporter. (Bratton, The First Heretic, 19) Amenhotep IV became king at eleven years of age and at first his mother handled most of the work as she did in the last years of Amenhotep III reign. (Bratton, The First Heretic, 20) At the beginning of Amenhotep IV reign, the downfall of Egypt had ... already begun as countries sent letters that said things like, "Gold is the price of good will; we shall keep the peace if you send gold." (Bratton, The ... become because of all the priests being so sullen about not being able to worship Amon. The king decided to leave Thebes forever in search...

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... of Akhetaten, now called Amarna, is a barren place surrounded by cliffs. According to Cyril Aldred, from the Nile the eastern cliffs look like the giant hieroglyph for "akhet" or "horizon" (1988). That the place so resembles the symbolic horizon, and that it is located very much in the center of Egypt may have been significant in Akhenaten's choice of this particular spot. Akhenaten made it quite ... is not known), and princess Meritaten was soon elevated to the position of Chief Queen and married to a mysterious figure called Smenkhkare or Ankhkheperure-Neferneferuaten, who apparently ...

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... it year round, presumably following its path along the horizon as well. At "Chichen Itza", during sunset a sun serpent rises up the side of the stairway of the pyramid called El Castillo on the day of spring and Autumn Equinox. It tells us that the Maya noted, not only the extremes of the Sun at the Solstices, but also the Equinoxes when the Sun appeared to rise due East or due West ... night. Since winter is longer than summer the first and last decans were assigned longer hours. Tables to help make these computations have been found on the inside of coffin lids. The columns in the tab...

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... were used to give the effects of waves of the Nile River. The symbolisms of the temples also reflect the solar cycle. The entrances of temples symbolize the horizon along with the decreasing height throughout the temples symbolizing the cycle of the sun, rising in the morning and setting at night. Text has also been discovered suggesting the importance of the sun god and the solar journey to the Egyptians. The last theory was that the temple symbolized tombs. A number ... of temples are "nested like the shrines ... ...

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