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The Egyptian Pyramids

You're Dead to Me

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Ancient Egypt - The Pyramids

There was a whole on ancient egyptian cosmology. The pyramids helped the king to ascend to the after life. And like it was all supposed to be in worship of gods rather than the government. So we actually have images from a bit later on, from a period of time known as the middle kingdom. And you see groups of hundreds of men moving statues that are many, many tons in size. It's just man power. You're just having to physically twist this thing. Soft copper, threw hard stone. Leathers taken inventon pyramids, but not a wheelbarrel. There would have been a depot area where the stone would have been unloaded. And then yet

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