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...
The Alignment de Lutry is thought to be dated to the Neolithic 4500/4000 bc, with the smaller stones aligned towards the spring solstice and the larger towards east and the winter solstice.
The alignment is located in the town of Lutry, in the canton of Vaud. It was discovered in 1975, but the current monument is a reconstruction from 1986 built a few dozen metres from the original location.
It is currently about 250m away from Lake Geneva and part of the Swiss cultural heritage.
Coordinates
46.503224,6.684913
Alignment
There are 10 small stones, 8 large stones split 3/5 by a small stone, with the whole monument in a shallow curve (A small stone has been replaced, there are 23 stones in total).
The large stones are aligned at 30° (with a length of 36 feet) to the northwest, and the smaller stones fall on a circumference of a circle of radius 47ft, aligned south at maximum tilt.
The centre of this circle from a line of 57° falls on the small stone that splits the large stones 3/5, the end large stone at 30° also aligns with the centre.
Using these numbers then the sides of a 90° triangle would be 47ft, 23.9477ft, and 52.749ft.
If considering obliquity from mid point 1584 years past 1985, then the following would give a year of 2365 bc.
23.9477−23.253=0.6947
0.6947÷1.2=0.57892
0.57892×10250=5933.89
5933.89−1584=4349.89
4349.89−1985=2364.9 bc
This would equate as 6.742° for tilt and, if subtracted from 30° would leave 23.258°, this number is 0.005° off the currently considered mid point obliquity.
30−6.742=23.258
Conclusion
This area of Switzerland was popular from 2700 bc then again in the 1st century bc.
The area is prone to glacial melt, and from other monuments in the area, it has shown that melt waters could raise and fall.
Discovery of monuments below the water line shows that the water level was probably a lot lower, allowing for the builds. When water levels rose, these monuments were built again, but at a higher altitude, they might have also represented a wider range of points.
For the Alignment de Lutry, they used a triangle, circle, and tangent, which gave obliquity for the year 2365 bc.
The number for mid point obliquity is very similar to the Earth's tilt at maximum tilt, and if it represented this, then the 47ft radius of circle could then represent the latitude for the location as 46.503224°. The tilt angle of 6.742° is very near to the longitude 6.684913°.
The two, obliquity and coordinate, are also very near to 47.
46.5°+0.6947°=47.2°
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