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...
Norte Chico pyramid
The Caral Civilization or Norte Chico Civilization was a complex pre-Columbian-era society with thirty major population centres in the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru. The civilization flourished between the 4th-2nd of millennia bc, with the formation of the first city generally dated to around 3500 bc at Huaricanga in the Fortaleza area, this lasted until a period of decline around 1800 bc.
Since the early 21st century, it has been established as the oldest-known civilization in the Americas.
In archaeological nomenclature, Norte Chico is a pre-ceramic culture of the pre-Columbian Late Archaic. Their culture has been categorised as containing no ceramics goods or art.
This culture is then defined by it's architecture which includes large earthwork platform mounds and sunken circular plazas.
Coordinates
-10.892049,-77.525186
On the main site at Caral, Peru, there are multiple buildings in different states or repair, of these, there are the Caral Sacred City, Pirámide de la Galería, Pirámide Mayor and Templo del Anfiteatro.
Most if not all buildings can be said to align at 21° towards the northwest, the two largest pyramids Pirámide Mayor and Templo del Anfiteatro are opposite each other with an off set of 100m (328 ft).
From the southern pyramid (Templo del Anfiteatro), the nearest pyramid towards the northwest is at 70° and the nearest towards the northeast is at 23°.
If continuing northeast, the further pyramid is at 56° before reaching Pirámide Mayor at 100m off set, continuing northwest a pyramid is 11° from Pirámide Mayor, completing the loop.
(Measurements are made from pyramid peak or front of buildings).
Conclusion
From the final pyramid clockwise west there is an angle of 11°, the small pyramid anti-clockwise not used is at 31° from Templo del Anfiteatro and between these two is an angle of 41°, the site is at 21°.
For this purpose these buildings could align with their angles from Templo del Anfiteatro as west 70° minus 90° equals 20° or tilt and east 23° and 56° as 23.56° giving maximum tilt angle but because they are put together towards the east the same could apply towards the west.
70-90=20°
70.77−90=19.23°
23 and 56=23.56°
These numbers aren't accurate but 0.96 and 0.996 away. If considering that obliquity is reducing the tilt by 5%, then the tilt from 1985 reduces and ultimately only becomes 95% of 20° which is 19°.
The following shows at maximum tilt to minimum tilt 12886 years tilt shall continue to reduce by 5% then again for a further 1052 years as it continues towards maximum tilt again. Ultimately, this means that at that time, it is '1°' less.
6681+1985+1584+10250=20500
25772÷2=12886
(1584+10250)-12886=-1052
Then, from above, if it is just 19° clockwise, the 0.23 is applied anti-clockwise, giving 2 times 0.23 equal to 0.46 and 23° again (23.46°).
The coordinates of the site as
-10.892049,-77.525186 are switched in a similar way as 10° latitude with the 0.52 switched to the longitude and the 77° pyramid and the 0.89 possibly 1-90°.
This is interpreted in such a way that suggests the numbers from above were used when they selected the site. It is also possible that if this is correct, then the site or the buildings aren't as old as 3500 bc because of their use of modern-day degrees.
From the date 3500 bc it gives an angle of 8.502° for tilt from max, normally this would have been used or incorporated into the build but it is possible that due to the isolation in 3500 bc the builders were unaware that it was important and was incorporated in almost all builds.
It is common place with much later builds like Monte Albán, Pyramid of the Sun Teotihuacán and Templo Mayor, Tenochtitlan to include tilt angle in the build and shows there was interaction with Europeans so as to achieve this.
Norte Chico Civilization
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