P ISS al IN BIG FN E egypt GI PT ONCE POINTED TO THE THEN NORTH STAE STAR anything said about egypt Is an tailing failing source of interest in utah the other day in a talk before boy scout teachers I 1 said that at one time the passageway in the big pry amid in egypt pointed to what was then the true north star that this 8 long tube in the stone like a huge telescope was at the accurate angle and laid out north so that it may be supposed from the bottom of the shaft the then north star might have been seen some of the hearers were amazed and one asked tor for more detail let me quote the following from one of the many booms giving this information choosing what is said in the new astronomy by lang ley ph D L L D published by houghton boughton miflin co in perhaps the earliest and most enduring work of man mans s hands the great pyramid of egypt Is along straight shaft cut through the solid stone and pointing like a telescope to the heavens near the pole it if we look through it now we see nothing but when it was set up it pointed to a particular star which was then very close to the true north polar axis which is no longer there that pyramid was built when the savages of gt brit am ain saw the southern cross at night and the same slow change in the di of the earth earths s ax a that in thousands of years has borne that constellation to southern skies has carried the stone tube away from the star that it once pointed to the stone tube was pointed to the star then very nearly the true north polar star by the old egypt lans tans but egypt itself Is now be come the land ot of obliviousness and doneth her ancient civility Is gone and her glory hath vanished as a she boreth not upon the he heavens astronomy Is dead unto her and knowledge mabeth other cycles is afar oft off mem ment non resound eth not to the sun and nilus heareth strange voices the motions of the earth whereby the axis swings in a small circle in the lapse of 26 years carried that stone tube around so that now it no longer points to the star it did nor does it now point even irtely true north but let us say about 2300 B C it accurately pointed to the star then the closest to the true pole I 1 something over 2 20 0 0 00 0 r years from now it will again point to nearly the same place in the heavens and it if pyramid and star are still in the same old line once more will it ac ae curatelo cura tely point to the north pole