Pretty neat; check this link (with pictures).
The interesting thing is that they seem to have the same diagonal arrangement as the pyramids of Giza. I can hardly wait to see what Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval come up with as to how that would fit in the Orion theory.
I’d like to see comparable views for the entire ANE because I suspects we’d see a lot more ziggurats than we can see above ground right now.
you’d think there might be something!
Mike, your comments about Hancock and Bauval seem quite sarcastic. But I can’t tell because its the internet. So I’m inquiring. Do you believe that the ancients followed a pattern of construction of replicating their buildings as mirrors of heaven on some kind of a regular basis? It seems here at least like you think that idea is absurd, at least as far as Giza is concerned.
I do believe there was an astronomical plan. I’ve blogged a couple times on that here:
http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2011/09/a-new-old-journal-article-on-the-great-pyramids-celestial-alignment/
The problem is that the Bauval (adopted by Hancock, who had nothing to do with it) theory over-reaches that idea when it comes to interpretation — the idea that the Giza plateau had building activity ca. 10,000 BC or something. That conclusion (in their theory) is marred because the Orion – Giza “mirror map” has certain elements on the wrong side of the Nile (at that 10,000 BC date). Bauval and Hancock didn’t seem to care about that inconsistency, but others noticed it.