Abstract
The remarkable accuracy of the orientation of the Great Pyramid has led to a number of suggestions concerning the methods on which the determination of the cardinal directions could have been achieved. All astronomically based theories, however, face serious difficulties, e.g. that there is no bright star exactly at the celestial pole, or that rising and setting amplitudes suffer from the poorly defined position of the observer (as well as other practical difficulties).
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