The question of who labored to build them, and why, has long been part of their fascination. Rooted firmly in the popular imagination is the idea that the pyramids were built by slaves serving a merciless pharaoh. This notion of a vast slave class in Egypt originated in Judeo-Christian trad...
How the ancient wonder was built is one of Egypt's biggest mysteries. But archaeologists do have insight into who built them—and what they hold inside.
Who was the Acropolis built for? Who invented the Ancient Egyptian calendar? Who created Egyptology? Who built Shahjahan's tomb? Who designed the funerary complex and Step Pyramid of Djoser? Who built Abu Simbel? Who used hieroglyphs first: Lower or Upper Egypt?
Who created the Freedmen's Bureau? Who colonized Burundi? Who led the North African campaign? Who organized the first Pan-African Congress? Who built the Nubian pyramids? Who created the Sahara desert? Who invented the plow in Mesopotamia? Who did Tanzania gain independence from? Who started Ne...
Within these secret societies, we see compartmentalized pyramids: Some would say that thePopeis the most powerful person on the planet but even he is being controlled and overshadowed by the “Black Pope” who remains unseen and hidden from the general public. ...
In Egypt, the Khufu Boat belonged to an Egyptian Pharaoh named Khufu. His mummified remains, together with the 144-foot-long boat, are sealed off in a tomb at the Pyramids of Giza. This was around 2,500 BC. Some historians claim the boat is placed there to carry the pharaoh into the...
They created a new capital, Akhet-Aten, over 200 miles north of Thebes. This didn’t sit well with all the people, but they didn’t have much of a choice. Defying the pharaoh could result in death, and the couple made themselves the only priests through which citizens could access ...
They are sculptures to spread the ide a that we live in a time of garbage."So far, Schult's social sculptures have been on show in Paris, in Moscow's Red Square, on the Great Wall of China, and in the desert next to the Pyramids of Giza near Cairo.HA Schult's work is ...
The Great Wall is one of the wonders of the world that created by human beings! If you e to China without climbing the Great Wall, it's just like going Paris without visiting the Eiffel Tower; or going to Egypt without visiting the Pyramids! Men often say, "He who doest not reach th...
So what is Göbekli Tepe? Who created it, and why? More pressingly, why did its builders bury their creation at the end of its useful life? These are the questions I ask in new bookGöbekli Tepe: Genesis of the Gods,in which I provide compelling evidence that the myths of the Watc...