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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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Ziggurat of Ur

Ziggurat of Ur 









The Great Ziggurat of Ur is located in modern-day Iraq.
The archaeological site of Ur also consists of the temples, Dublal Makh Temple and Nan Makh Temple, and the museums Ennigaldi-Nanna's Museum and Ur dos Caldeus.
The House of Prophet Abraham is located a short distance to the east.
It is thought that construction began in 2040 BC, and the structure was considered a ruin by the 6th century BC.


Coordinates
30.962817, 46.103300


Description
The Ziggurat's pathway and entrance are angled at 37° towards the northeast. It is shaped and styled in brick with either a damaged or unfinished upper level. The size is 64 metres by 45 metres, and the building has a height of 30 metres.


Analysis
If the floor area is divided by 36, a number of 80 is produced. If this is assumed to be 10 less than 90° as a negative, then considering it as an angle, 10° would equate to the year 4467 BC.
64 × 45 = 2880
2,880 ÷ 36 = 80

10 ÷ 1.55 = 6.4516
6.4516 × 1,000 = 6,451.6
6,451.6 - 1,985 = 4,467

If a volume is calculated, then a number equal to the seconds in a day is achieved.
2880 × 30 = 86400


The entrance is angled at 37° along with the building towards the northeast. The ratio of the building in metres to feet is 1/37. If the volume in metres is equal to seconds in a day, then multiplying by the angle 37° would equal 3,199,999.9 or 3.2 million cubic feet.

If the base is divided by the volume in feet, and the volume in feet is divided by the year 4467 BC, the following are produced. The two products are then divided, producing 1.55.

3,200,000 ÷ 4,467 = 716.36
3,200,000 ÷ 2,880 = 1,111.11
1,111.11 ÷ 716 = 1.55
3200000 ÷ 86400 = 37°

The 1.55 is the ratio of years per degree. (This was produced by its own ratio of volume in cubic feet divided by year and area). From this, it could then suggest that a given angle produces the year of build or a significant year. This angle could have been on the upper floor and is thus lost.

If dividing the volume by seconds in a day, as derived, then the number 37 is produced. This could then be the angle, which would then bring it back to itself. A possible full rotation as 20°.




Conclusion
Some numbers are missing so as to connect 20°. This could be because part of it has been destroyed.
The entrance is angled towards the northeast and so not towards sunrise.
It is possible it is connected to 4467 BC as people were known to have lived and traveled here, but it is also more probable, because of the use of bricks, as would have been used in the Early Middle Ages, that it is a newer structure.
The numbers 36 and 10 could connect as 360° with the 1.55 and (37-36=1) 1 as 1° of tilt.
1 x 1,000 = 1000
1985 - 1000 = 985 AD


This then could suggest this was the main building in the area in 985 AD. As it was damaged, so were other buildings which no longer stand. This then suggests it is connected to the Silk Road, a Chinese trading route during this time.

This, though, is of a different style of building to the tomb of Cyrus the Great, which might have been considered as being in the same region.



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