Part 4 of the investigation. We tested the Alison circle against 8 other great circles through famous archaeological sites:
Stonehenge+Giza+Persepolis, Teotihuacan+Giza+Angkor Wat, Athens+Persepolis+Varanasi, and five others.
None came close. The strongest alternative falls 42% short on monument-settlement divergence. And most can't fit their anchor sites within 100 km. The Alison circle passes within 6.5 km of all three: Giza, Nazca, Easter Island. Three sites on three continents, determined by completely independent local factors (the Nile, the Peruvian coast, Pacific island isolation), more precisely collinear than almost any other combination we tested.
When we zoomed to 250-year resolution, the monument-settlement divergence peaks at a single crossing point: the Memphis necropolis, where the Great Circle meets an ancient Nile channel (the Ahramat Branch, discovered in 2022 by satellite radar) at a perpendicular angle. The pyramids sit at the intersection.
The circle was proposed in 2001., meanwhile the river was discovered in 2022. Nobody planned for them to meet at the pyramids.
We tested whether the desert edge, missing settlements, or climate could explain it. The desert edge is 134 km away. Adding 58 buried settlements made the divergence stronger. Climate explains when they builtm the entire Eastern Mediterranean was wet. It doesn't explain why they built here, within 25 km of this specific line.
Much more to come…. covering it all here: thegreatcircle.substack.com
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