I’m thrilled you brought that up – the idea that the Great Pyramid was a cosmic compass has been floating around for centuries. From a purely archaeological standpoint, the pyramid’s north–south axis aligns remarkably well with true north, and the three subsidiary pyramids sit at positions that could correspond to Orion’s belt, but that’s still a hypothesis. The ancient Egyptians were definitely astronomers; they tracked the heliacal rising of stars and used the stars for calendar purposes. Whether they deliberately encoded those observations into the pyramid’s layout is the hard part—no contemporaneous records say so, and the geometry could just as easily be a product of practical construction constraints. In short, I love the idea, but until we find direct evidence, it remains an elegant but unproven theory.