The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids

by Adrian Geoffrey Gilbert, Robert Bauval, Adrian Gilbert

Book Overview

A revolutionary book that explains the most enigmatic and fascinating wonder of the ancient world: the Pyramids of Egypt.

In 1993, German robotics engineer Rudolf Gatenbrink discovered a sealed door within the Great Pyramid of Giza--a door left unopened for 4,500 years. With this discovery, Robert Bauval--who spent the decade prior to the discovery researching the pyramids--and Adrian Gilbert used astronomical data to reveal that more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517884542
• ISBN13: 9780517884546
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The Orion Mystery - Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids

I found this book to be absolutely stunning. A 'must read' for amateur Egyptologist. This book unlocks one of the most interesting secrets of the Pyramids at Giza and shows evidence of a long range organized master plan of the layout of the pyramids that must have been conceived many years before they were built. The relationship to the stars is uncanny and so accurate that the writer claims he is able to date the exact construction period of the pyramids within 50 years of the date they were actually built. I was convinced without a doubt that the pyramids were built with measuring tools that have yet to be discovered. This books lays claim to one such tool although the actual physical device has proved elusive and only drawings exist to date.The book leaves you hanging for a part II, which shows new convincing evidence that yet another hidden chamber, may exist in one of the pyramids that may contain the designs and the signature of the king who built it. As of the writing of this book, the door to this room was discovered but not yet opened. (An investigation was planned for 1994, but no details of this project have been given in this book.)You will also see that the mathematics behind the pyramids are nothing less that electrifying. The relationship between the angles used and the rising sun and the relationship to other cities that may reference other stars, will keep you glued till the end. It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that the pyramids are a well-planned map of the stars...but you be the judge.

History revised

This book not only takes apart the basic history of Egypt you learned in school, it introduces the radical concept that the Eygyptians weren't a). stupid, b). primitive, or c). superstitious twits. Bauval shows how the pyramids were arranged so precisely because they were creating a heaven on earth--they reflect the patterns of Orion's belt on the ground. This had deep significance to a race of people who believed ''as above, so below.'' The reader who claims that Bauval now refutes his own Orion theory is sadly misinformed. Anyone who is interested can go read Bauval's letter to the BBC at www.grahamhancock.com. Apparently, the ''Horizon'' program, in its zeal to knock both Hancock (not a pseudo-scientist but a talented journalist)badly mis-represented Bauval's theories to the British viewing public.But read it for yourself. I think the sequel, ''The Message of the Sphinx,''is even better.

This was the most facinating book I've ever read.

I thought that The Orion Mystery was very facinating. I have always liked ancient mysteries and what they are connected to, kinds of books. This book proposed a specifically interesting mystery. The book was about a group of pyramids from Egypt's forth dynasty. It said that the group of pyramids coincided with the orion constellation. It also says that the pyramids are on the exact position of the stars in this particular constellation. The Benben stone that the egyptians believe to be linked to the creation of the world was also in these pyramids. I believe that The Orion Mystery made me want to keep reading and also to read other books to keep finding out about these pyramids in Egypt. I found myself unable to put it down. I liked this book because it did not propose anything inpossible but something that you could actually believe. I think that if you like this sort of mystery or like to here about Egyption findings I think you will definately find that you like this book.

A must read, especially for the academic egyptologists

I'm an italian reader, 39, architect. This great book is the last demonstration of what kind of demages can be done by the academic environment in its effort to keep the culture inside the universities, schools and similars, instead to help it to propagate whitin the people. In this book are uncovered more than 100 years of guilty blindness about this reality, the Pyramids, that do contain a great part of our cultural origins. The authors argued in a way that - frankly speaking - it seems quite difficult to dispute. They bring proofs that come from the direct observation and from the direct experience. This book is fantastic, a must read for everyone who loves the ancient Egypt culture, and for those who want to find a way for to approach or to improve their knowledge about the "Land of the River".