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Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa

Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa The Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa are located in Alexandria, Egypt. Half a kilometer to the northeast is the Serapeum of Alexandria, which is another archaeological site in the area. The Serapeum of Alexandria is considered to have been built by the Greeks in the 3rd century BC. Coordinates 31.178942, 29.893170 Description The site is thought to date to the Hellenistic period, and Roman, Greek, and Egyptian cultural attributes can be found throughout. The site is considered to have three levels dug into the rock, being up to 35 meters deep. The Catacombs consist of a triclinium, dining room, rotunda, Hall of Caracalla, and sarcophagi. The entrance is from the southeast side near the staircase at a 40° angle. The Catacombs' size is 25 metres by 50 metres. It is thought the site was an earlier burial ground where visitors brought clay pots of food for themselves, leaving the pots as they departed. Hence, this is where the name derived from. Analysis The tomb...
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Druid's Temple

 Druid's Temple

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The Druid's Temple is located near Ilton, Ripon, North Yorkshire. It is different from other stone circles or monuments that hold the same name.

It was built in the 1800s by William Danby, a land owner, as a probable Stonehenge replica a short distance from Swinton Park, his home. William Danby also employed someone to live there for seven years, adding to the name and alore.


Description 
The temple is made up of stones from both the Neolithic and Bronze Age and, as such, was probably part of a land clearing exercise, though never stated as such.

Multiple Neolithic markers are gathered together along with stones from dolmens. These are probably from the nearby Thornborough Henges and adjacent sites.

Neolithic markers were slim but shaped bland stones that marked locations of interest with dolmens usually having a capstone and a larger number of supporting stones. Thornborough Henges were built in the Bronze Age, and communities lived inside the circles up until the Iron Age. During these times, stones could have been used either for entrances or to mark certain points. Thornborough Henges were built as a depiction of a planetary conjunction between Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn. The numbers for this are derived from the separation distances and angles of the monument.

Further to the description, the temple is oval as opposed to circular. Centrally, there is one stone surrounded by four stones, with a possible alter.



Measurements
Druid's Temple central stones are not aligned north/south or east/west at maximum tilt but are 2° offset north/south and not 0.202° when they were built. East/West, they are offset by 13°, this with the 0.202° subtracted suggests an angle of 1.8° and 12.8°.

These numbers multipled equal 23, the original 2 and 13 could suggest segments or seasons in one rotation, so two seasons and thirteen equals 6.5 rotations.

1.8×12.8=23.04
6.5×13=2340

The temple is aligned at about 56°/57° towards the northeast and at 40° towards the northwest.

The dimensions of the temple equal 25m by 15m or 82 ft by 49 ft and about 10 feet tall.



Conclusion 
The centre stone along with the other Neolithic stones might have originally been the stone markers for Thornborough Henges before being moved near the River Ure, then finially being moved 11.2km and aligned at 56°/57° and loosing their meaning.

The 23° or 2×13 doesn't align with any stones but at 67° a measurement can be made to one side of the entrance and to the other side a further and similar measurement can be made giving an angle of 41°, the difference being 26°.

As the temple's shape is more elliptic than a circle, the area would be πab or 294.

Area=π×7.5×12.5=294m²

The circumference would be 63.82m. This subtracted from 90 would equate to 26. This could then represent 26°.

90-63.82=26

Like many monuments, there are two ways that conclude the correct angle. The Druid's Temple is no different. Here, it is a seasonal rotation and circumference. The area could represent the day in the year as the 294th day, which would be 21st October.

As a possible farming meaning it could be harvesting of the crops during autumn.

It is unclear if the numbers mean anything more complicated, but some effort has gone into it being comparable to a Bronze Age build.





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