This is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that has survived to this day.
They call it the Great one, which seems quite fitting.
The scale is truly breathtaking.
It's 146 meters (479 ft) high.
It consists of 2,300,000 stone blocks. Some of them weigh about 50 tons.
The entire structure weighs about 6 million tons. It's like 16 Empire State Buildings combined.
And all this was done by people who didn't know the wheel.
For 38 centuries, it held the status of the tallest building on earth.
And it remains the most mysterious building even now.
There are so many mysteries, fantasies, and conjectures surrounding it.
Because it's very ancient. Even its inscriptions were deciphered almost by pure luck, otherwise, there would be much more secrets and fantasies.
This is the Pyramid of Cheops!
It was built with amazing precision. The perimeter of its base divided by twice its height gives the number pi to the nearest thousandth. Try it yourself on a calculator - it's impressive. Definitely, this wasn’t a coincidence since the proportion would have been different if the ancient Egyptians had made the pyramid higher or lower by just a meter.
And this was done by people so long ago that no one even heard of the village that would later become Rome.
By the way, we greatly underestimate the pyramid’s age due to our perception of the distant past.
Take the last queen of Egypt, the legendary Cleopatra. She was born in 69 BC, that is, 2090 years ago (or 2091, whatever). We involuntarily perceive her as the same age as the pyramids - she was the queen of Egypt, after all.
But the construction of the Great Pyramid ended around 2540 BC. And it started 20 years earlier. That is almost 2500 years before Cleopatra was born.
Just think about it! For Cleopatra, the pyramid of Cheops was more ancient than Cleopatra herself for you and me! Doesn’t this blow your mind?!
Therefore, we perceive many things about the Great Pyramid's internal structure as something bizarre and mysterious precisely because we are so far from fully understanding how people of that era lived, thought, and what they were driven by.
But somehow we still need to satisfy our boundless curiosity. In this video, you'll find out what’s inside and under the Egyptian pyramids, what unusual things were recently discovered there, where are priceless artifacts and the pharaoh’s body, and so much more!
What do the Egyptian pyramids hide inside and under them?
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