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The Egyptian Pyramids (Radio Edit)

You're Dead to Me

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The Pyramids of the Giza

The pyramids are functionally, they are the tomb for one person. They also helped the king to form ancient Egypt and to solidify the state because you're not going to be able to build a pyramid unless you have people who are very highly organized and efficient. A lot of what you've been saying so far, Sarah, has come from archaeology. But we do actually have historical documents too. We do have, for example, the logbook of Merrair who was perhaps a project manager. He mentions a prince, the brother of Khufu, who we suspected for a long time. Was it all written in hieroglyphics? Yes. And anything else like his

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