Kate Spence is a Faculty Member at the University of Cambridge's Department of Architecture who published a landmark 2000 Nature paper demonstrating that Egyptian pyramids were aligned via the simultaneous transit of circumpolar stars, using rigorous astronomical calculation. Her methodology combining archaeoastronomy with mathematical modeling and publication in one of the world's most prestigious journals establishes this as a peer-reviewed, institutionally-backed finding.
Ancient Egyptian chronology and the astronomical orientation of pyramids, Nature 408 (2000), 203 citations