The Pyramid on Dollar Bill IS Tower of Babel, Constructed by Masons (72 Bricks = 72 Words of God)
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1 degree is a unit of angle that was invented relatively recently, with invention of trigonometly with all that sin(), cos(), tg() stuff. In the distant past, people measured and accounted angles as elevation/offset on some length/distance. Like 1 inch per foot. It was much more practical and obvious for them. So, this "1 degree in 72 years" hardly could come to someone head at the time when all that babylonian things happened. Angle unit in itself was useless for them without trigonometric functions. It's today we could use angle to find out lengths, heights and widths of trinalge and other shapes using calculator, but babylonians hardly know what f.e. sin() is.
This theory that babylonians could assume that there are approx 360 days in a year and so circle could be divided into 360 sectors with 1 modern degree angle, ruins myth about high precision of ancient measurements. If babylonians couldn't properly measure duration of a year in days as 365, then there can't be talks about some precise ratios they probably knew, and 72 will be just 70 for them.
Not agruing against other number "72" history, you wrote, but exactly this case is highly doubtful.
My theory is much simpler and much more boring. "72" is not something mistique. "72" is just a half dozen of dozens. Many tribes used 12-based scale of notation at the time, so 72 is a "round" number in 12 base. It was just a "round" number for them. Exactly like number "50" for us, who use 10 base now. So, there are no any magic that 72 appear often in ancient texts and ratios. Just a "round" number of the time, same as "50" now.
You under estimate the genius of the past.
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On the opposite, I overestimate them here, closing my eyes on many inconsistencies and utter indifference of our ancestors to many interesting things around. If I began to dig into real, practical results of that ancient knowledge praised here, the picture will be much, much worse.
Very simple question - humanity know lenses and concave mirrors from a very ancient times. How comes, nobody of that ancient geniuses never tried to compbine few lenses and or concave mirrors to create a telescope, until Galileo times? If ancients was so interested in cosmology, who prevent them to try to use lenses/concave mirrors to look deeper into sky? Isn't that obvious to try to use well-known effect of lenses or concave mirrors to magnify objects in the sky if ancients was so interested in them. But somehow it took few millenias to finally do that.
So, don't even try to think that I underestimate ancients. I have a tons of questions like above about why they was so indifferent for studing the universe around, when many things to do was absolutely technically possible even at a very ancient times.
Just think, how our world could look like, if telescope was invented not by Galileo, but by Archimedes, f.e. And if you immidiately didn't come up with the question who prevented that, and how many similary simple things is not invented yet for that reason, you are not anywhere near anybody who could be called "conspiracy theorist".
Actually, they knew math so well that they knew 360 would work in most cases and was easier to work with than say 365.2425 or something. The Bible indicates that God sets the irrational numbers precisely so that different similarities would be close enough to work with but still imperfect.
For instance, Book of Enoch points out that 360 is prevailing but 364 is closer and has more advantages and still can be worked with in the same general way.
Absolutely 72 was used as a round number due to these synchronies; which is why 360 or 2.5 gross was also used as a round number. It's probable that after generations the approximation 72*360=25920 would've been guessed (actual currently 25771.57534, which varies based on measurement specs and adjustment over time). The Bible also says Solomon built the temple laver just fine even though he used 3 as an approximation for pi.
You are right that many of these supposed connections are excrement. But often by reverting to your correct perspective about round numbers the actual math of the day can be recovered and the original claim somewhat vindicated even though it's expressed in different terms. This week I learned that Euclid discovered a working version of the law of cosines without ever inventing a cosine.