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reason taken as New Year’s Day and called, among other things, the ‘Birth of Ra’, the sun-god. A mythology and sky-religion developed around this cosmic and Nilotic theme and, more intriguingly, an ambitious plan was gradually hatched around 2800 BC to ‘bring down’, in the literal sense, the Cosmic Order so that the pharaoh, the son of Ra on earth, could undertake the same magical journey in an earthly Duat and thus secure for Egypt a ‘good’ flood. To coin the Hermetic dictum: as above so below . To this end a massive pangenerational project was put into action that would involve building clusters of ‘star’-pyramids at predetermined sites to represent Orion and the Pleiades, as well as the building of great ‘sun’-temples set on both sides of the Nile to define the part of the ecliptic along which the sun-god travelled through the Duat from vernal equinox to summer solstice set on both sides of the Milky Way. But my new theory does not stop here, for I also demonstrated in The Egypt Code that the slow cyclical changes witnessed in the sky landscape caused by precession and the peculiarity of the Egyptian civil calendar over the 3,000 years of the pharaonic civilisation are reflected in the changes witnessed on the ground all along the 1,000 kilometre long Nile Valley in the evolution of temples throughout the same 3,000 years. In other words The Egypt Code proposes, no less, to prove that there existed a sort of ‘cosmic Egypt’ ghosted in the geography of the Nile Valley stretching from north to south that was once literally regulated and administered by astronomer-priests headed by a sun-king that lasted for over three millennia and can still be discerned in the layout of pyramids and temples that remain today.
     
    The Egypt Code , contrary to what Egyptologists will surely be quick to claim, is not a new-age book that regurgitates wild speculations and theories that cannot be verified or tested. My thesis is entirely verifiable, testable and ultimately falsifiable if need be. Indeed, I happily welcome Egyptologists and other scholars in the field of Egyptian archaeology and history to step up and do so. Let them not be fooled or be put off by the easy-to-read style of presentation and concise arguments. This is for the benefit of the general public who, when all is said and done, are the true judge and jury of all new ideas.
     
    In closing I would like to add that while I was writing the last version of The Egypt Code in Cairo I would often take short breaks from my long hours at my computer and go up on the roof of our building to look at the pyramids. From that vantage point I could have an unobstructed view of the Giza pyramids hardly a kilometre away. It sometimes felt as if I could reach out and touch them. But my gaze would always wander beyond Giza to a place on the south horizon where I could see the outline of the first pyramid built in Egypt, the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, with its distinctive staggered profile gleaming through the thin veil of haze. The quest for The Egypt Code began there while casually standing one day next to the seated effigy of the pyramid-king who built this strange monument and who, very mysteriously, was made to stare eternally at the circumpolar stars. So I now would invite you to join me at that same spot to re-trace my quest for the ‘Holy Grail’ of the pyramid and temple builders of ancient Egypt.
     
    Please come and meet the pharaoh who began all this …
     

Postscript
     
    In the last few years dramatic new discoveries have given much credence to the theory that the pharaonic civilisation is the product of a much older culture that brought into the Nile Valley its vast knowledge of astronomy and megalithic building. The finding of the Nabta Playa in southern Egypt and, more recently, the discovery of hieroglyphic inscriptions near the Oasis of Dakhla and at Gebel Uwaynat have provided not only proof of this ‘pre-pharaonic’ culture but also that the