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TWA Egypt poster by David Klein, 1960s
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I was in a Mission Impossible action adventure, parachuting into the open top of one of the Great Pyramids and upon landing I found myself in a quiet art gallery and my parents were silently viewing the paintings. Heck of a tonal shift.
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EGYPT FROM ABOVE (2020) — (1.02) Engineering the Future
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The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx of Giza
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Shirred Triangle Dress
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Approaching the Pyramids
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The BBC's 360° tour through the inside of the Great Pyramid of Giza gives an unprecedented look into its fascinating interior.
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Queen's Chamber | Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, 2570 BC
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Carel Visser, Tikal, 1969
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Well, this is most exciting. There has been speculation about this kind of corridor in the Great Pyramid for a while. The consensus right now is that the blocks were hauled up via an inside corridor, with spaces at the corners large enough to cope with turning the blocks. One of those spaces is visible near the top on the northwest corner of the pyramid. This corridor is above the main entrance (as it is now), but still could have fulfilled that function. If anyone is interested in the science of 'space particles', the archaeologists in charge of this have an article in Nature describing the math. I've not included it here because there's a reason I went into Arts.
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Atop the Great Pyramid
Assassin’s Creed Origins
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Wonders of the Ancient World: Building the Great Pyramid by James B. Settles, 1946
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GODS OF EGYPT | EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD | MYSTERY OF THE GODS PART 1
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Original Entrance
The original entrance of the GREAT PYRAMID is located on the north side, 7.9m east of the centerline of the pyramid. Before the removal of the casing in the middle ages, the pyramid was entered through a hole approximately 17m above the pyramid's base level. A row of double chevrons diverts weight away from the entrance. Several of these chevron blocks are now missing.
Robbers' Tunnel
Today tourists enter the pyramid via the Robbers' Tunnel, which was long ago cut straight through the masonry of the pyramid. After running more-or-less straight and horizontal for 27m it turns sharply left to encounter the blocking stones in the Ascending Passage. It is possible to enter the Descending Passage from this point but access is usually forbidden. According to tradition the chasm was made around 820 AD by Caliph al-Ma'mun's workmen with a battering ram. Unable to remove blocking stones, however, the workmen tunneled up beside them through the softer limestone of the Pyramid until they reached the Ascending Passage. Some evidence suggests that some sort of robber's tunnel predated al-Ma'mun, and that the caliph simply enlarged it and cleared it of debris. [X]
Diagram
1= Original Entrance
2= Robbers’ Tunnel
3= Descending Passage
6= Ascending Passage
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Knowledge and Religion
“Be religious, my son; Religion is lofty philosophy. Without philosophy there is no lofty religion. He who instructs himself concerning the universe, its laws and its principles, its beginning and its end, gives thanks for all things to the Creator, as to a gracious father, a good protector, a faithful teacher. This is religion and by means of it we know where truth is, and what it is. Knowledge increases religion. For when once the soul imprisoned in the body, has lifted itself to the perception of the real Good and of Truth, she cannot again fall back.”
— Hermes Trismegistus, The Virgin of the World
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Paul Jon Watson, The Mirror of Time
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