Re: Has anyone investigated the 'missing stars' on the Orion/Pyramid map?

Thanks for your question!

Honestly, I had never heard of a supposed alignment between the pyramids
in Egypt and the stars in the belt of Orion.  I therefore spent some of
my lunch hour surfing on the Web and read many interesting pages on the
subject.

I must say that I am very skeptical.  Humans are extremely good at
recognizing patterns and similarities, so even if the pyramids did line
up with the arrangements of Orion it may not matter much.  Besides,
there are many other places in the sky with a number of bright stars
in a row, so a clever person could find other alignments.  Look at all
the geographical features on the Earth that are named after animals
(Beaver Mountain, etc.), which have nothing to do with real animals.

I also am skeptical because most of the time these things turn out not to
mean much (for example, the "face" on Mars or the "canals" on Mars, which
are not real).  

There is, however, an important issue about the way science works 
that is raised by this suggestion about an astronomical connection
to ancient construction.  Bauval's suggestion of an alignment
counts as a hypothesis, a provisional idea which leads to further
investigation.  No matter how precise the alignment is, we would need
OTHER supporting evidence that this is real and not a coincidence.
If we found, for example, historical records about the actual motivations
of the pyramid builders, we would know what they really intended.

The biggest problem is knowing how to verify such supposed alignments.
Where will supporting evidence come from?  If we don't have
any supporting evidence, this remains just an interesting idea.