Recently, I’ve been thinking about the pyramids again—the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt specifically, which is estimated to have been built over 4500 years ago. Why have I been thinking about this pyramid? Because when I look around me these days and look at what’s been created over the last two hundred years or so, I wonder, is it possible that our evolution of technology took a turn away from what it might have been?
When I read and learn about the Great Pyramid of Giza, I remain awed by its magnificence. It is the only one of the seven great wonders of the world still standing. It is constructed of more than 2.3 million giant blocks of limestone and granite that weigh upwards of 10 tons, all of which are near perfectly positioned in the structure. It is a near solid mass of stone containing few internal spaces. Inside the pyramid is a sloping passageway called the Great Gallery that leads into three internal rooms: the Queen’s Chamber, the King’s Chamber, and the Subterranean Chamber. Tourists access the Great Gallery through the Robber’s Tunnel, which is an entrance that was dug into the pyramid’s north face by medieval looters on orders of ruler al-Ma’mun, whose army had swept into Egypt from what is now Iraq. Incredibly, the Great Gallery and the three internal chambers were not bored into the Great Pyramid but designed and built into the magnificent edifice, the megaton blocks so precisely placed as to accommodate these internal features. How did they build these? Is it possible they knew something about space, time and the unconscious that’s since been forgotten?
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