1. Robert Bauval was born on 5 March 1948 and is an Egyptian writer and lecturer, perhaps best known for the fringe Orion Correlation Theory regarding the Giza pyramid complex.
12 Facts About Robert Bauval
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Robert Bauval attended the British Boys' School in Alexandria and the Franciscan College in Buckinghamshire, England.
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Robert Bauval left Egypt in 1967 just before the Six-Day War, during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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Robert Bauval has spent most of his engineering career living and working in the Middle East and Africa as a construction engineer.
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In late 1992, Robert Bauval had been trying to obtain a translation of Hermetica by Walter Scott.
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Robert Bauval then came across a new edition printed by Solo Press with a foreword by Adrian Gilbert.
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Robert Bauval contacted Gilbert after being interested in his foreword concerning a link between an Alexandrine school of Hermes Trismegistus and the pyramid builders of the Fourth dynasty of Egypt.
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Robert Bauval is specifically known for the Orion Correlation Theory, which proposes a relationship between the fourth dynasty Egyptian pyramids of the Giza Plateau and the alignment of certain stars in the constellation of Orion.
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Robert Bauval's friend pointed out the constellation of Orion, and mentioned that Alnitak, the most easterly of the stars making up Orion's belt, was offset slightly from the others.
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Robert Bauval then made a connection between the layout of the three main stars in Orion's belt and the layout of the three main pyramids in the Giza necropolis.
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Krupp and Fairall independently investigated the angle between the alignment of Orion's Belt to North during the era cited by Robert Bauval, and found that the angle was somewhat different from the 'perfect match' claimed by Robert Bauval and Hancock: 47 to 50 degrees, compared to the 38-degree angle formed by the pyramids.
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In regard of the nine remaining complaints, the BSC ruled against Hancock and Robert Bauval, concluding that they had not been treated unfairly in the criticism of their theories concerning carbon-dating, the Great Sphinx of Egypt, Cambodia's Angkor temples, Japan's Yonaguni formation and the mythical land of Atlantis.