Giza Orion Thuban

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The Great Pyramid of Giza is squared to the four directions with astonishing precision, and its narrow shafts point to the sky: south toward the belt of Orion, the stars of Osiris, and north toward Thuban, the pole star of that age. The pharaoh's tomb aimed at the stars of the afterlife. — archaeoastronomy