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This 11 page report discusses the enormous undertaking of building the pyramids and the incredible accuracy that was used in the construction of a tomb and monument to dead pharaohs. Every aspect of the ancient people’s life was consumed by the combination of worship and construction. The two were inextricably connected. Technology developed in support of the construction and the construction continually glorified the divine in ever-greater measures. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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as the handiwork of aliens from outer space. "Opening the Lost Tombs: Live from Egypt" investigates what it calls one of Egypts "many mysteries" by claiming that the pyramids are
"The ancient future, a civilization of contradiction. A higher intelligence, or merely dedicated hard work? Which theory is correct? Neither is proven." The production of the special and its
subsequent promotion tells more about Fox-News as a reporting mechanism than it doe about the mystery of Egypt. In fact, one wonders if the Fox network can be this ingenuous,
"or this incompetent, or this shifty, on a subject where information and experts abound, how can anyone trust anything else they report?" (Carrier 46). But far from debating the relative
merits of Fox news or television journalism, in general, the production of such a report demonstrates the millennia of speculation about the pyramids and the sphinx. Consider the fact that
Herodotus theorized in the fifth century B.C.E. that the Egyptians moved the massive blocks used to construct the pyramids: The ascent, he wrote, was regularly graduated by what some
call . . . steps and others . . . altars. When the workmen had finished the first tier, they elevated the stone to the second by the aid of
machines constructed of short pieces of wood; from the second tier the stones were raised by a similar machine to the third; and so on to the summit (Boxer 8).
Most Egyptologists of the past two centuries have assumed that Herodotuss description was myth but now even his theories are being reconsidered. Clearly, the "mystery of Egypt" is more
of a mystery of the entire world. Glorification and Honor - The Purpose of the Pyramids Regardless of Fox televisions assertion that the pyramids were guides or markers for
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