16. R. M. Schoch and R. A. McNally, Pyramid Quest (New York: Penguin, 2005), 27.
17. Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Radford, Va.: Wilder, 2007).
18. Siliotti, Guide to the Pyramids of Egypt, preface by Zahi Hawass.
19. Klaus Schmidt: Sie bauten die ersten Tempel. Das rätselhafte Heiligtum der Steinzeitjäger (München: n.p., 2006).
20. Brophy, The Origin Map: Discovery of a Prehistoric Megalithic Astrophysical Map of the Universe; Thomas G. Brophy, The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism (Blue Hill, Maine: Medicine Bear), 1999.
21. G. Hancock and R. Bauval, The Message of the Sphinx (New York: Crown, 1996).
22. Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt (London: Thames and Hudson, 1978).
APPENDIX 2. SOTHIC CYCLES AND IMHOTEP’S CALENDAR WALL
1. M. F. Ingham, “The Length of the Sothic Cycle,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 55 (1969): 36–40.
APPENDIX 3. SAVING NABTA PLAYA
1. E-mail from Schild, May 26, 2008.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
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