Dozens of newspapers and websites announced yesterday (16 November 2000) a major 'breakthrough discovery' by Kate Spence, a PhD researcher at Cambridge University that was published in the journal Nature. The main 'breakthrough' hailed by the media concerns the accurate dating of the Great Pyramid by modeling the precession of the transit of two stars, Kochab (in Ursa Minor) and Mizar (in Ursa Major), at the north meridian of the sky. According to Kate Spence:
"The Ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza have never been accurately dated... Modeling the precession of these stars yields a date to the start of construction of the Great Pyramid that is accurate to ±5yr, thereby providing an anchor for the Old Kingdom chronologies" (Nature, Vol. 408 p.320, 16th November 2000).
http://www.robertbauval.co.uk/articles/articles/gpdating.html
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