Items on the 'maat' side of this site are attributed to Barry McCann A Cautionary Tale - a paper, originally written for Ian Lawton's Genesis site, relating how my experience with the use of geometry in a rather different context convinced me that it is impossible to automatically assume that all alignments discovered at Giza and elsewhere are the result of the Ancient Egyptians' original intention or design... As a follow up to this I experimented with what might happen if I 'placed' an imaginary structure onto the Giza Plateau to see whether alignments would still develop from it. This became the infamous...
 - a 'game' with a very serious purpose...  - a series of drawings explaining why you cannot always believe your eyes - and all that glisters isn't gold...
Pyramid Kinks - it is now well known that the unique inward sloping sides of The Great Pyramid are... er, unique - or are they...  Were the proportions of the Great Pyramid determined by the Golden Rectangle - phi?
If you still have a moment to spare after all that, check out the never ending saga of
 - an everyday story of pyramid folk - as seen through the eyes and words of present-day researchers. 'Abandon hope all ye whose reputation is laid bare within...'
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