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moved hundreds of miles by boat
rolled on logs and perhaps | levered up with huge timbers.
Giant statues | of Ramses The Great
carved at Abu Simbel are still | some of the largest fingures
ever sculpted from solid stone.
We don't know how they did it, | but we do know why
to honer the pharaohs, | both in life and after death.
Honor the pharaohs after | death...
Does that have anything to do | with mummies?
Yes.
Look at Tutankhamen, | for example.
When the young king died
the priests sought to create | a magical new body for him.
For 70 days they labored | drying and preserving
the royal body | with salts and ointments
then wrapping it | in hundreds of feet of linen
laden with protective jewels, | charms and amulets.
And finally crowning the mummy
with an exquisite | golden death mask.
Tutankhamen was ready | for the afterlife.
Had the boy lived and died | a thousand years earlier
he would have been buried | like pharaohs long before him...
in a mounment | of colossal proportions-
a man-made mountain of stone | called "the pyramids."
They probably saw | the pyramid shape
as a mystical link | beyween earth and sky
providing the pharaoh's soul | with a stairway to the heavens.
Of the fabled Seven Wonders of | the Ancient World
only the Pyramids of Giza | remain
made more than 4,000 years ago.
Nearly 500 feet tall
they contain some of the largest | pieces of stone
ever moved by humans
as much as 50 tons or more.
Yet, this was accomplished | without wheels or pulleys
or even hand-tools.
How in the world did | they do it without | modern machinery?
The Gods | certainly didn't do it
They used their minds.
knowledge built | these great, | reat structures.
Highly sophisticated | knowledge.
Look...
All of the Giza pyramids | are built
in perfect alignment | with certain stars.
That takes a knowledge | of astronomy.
The pyramids' foundations
are laid out in perfect angles | and dimensions
precisely correct for the height | they wanted to reach.
Now, that takes knowledge | of geometry and mathematics.
And finally
you must get these big stones | from down here to up there
and you must make them all | fit perfectly.
Now, that takes knowledge-
an incredible knowledge | of engineering and organization.
Organization?
Absolutely.
You just said so yourself.
It wasn't the Gods who built | these great monuments.
It was people.
Thousand and thousands | of people.
lmagine begin one | of these people
living in a tiny village | more than 4,000 years ago.
Life would be pretty much | the same day in and day out:
Farming, herding cattle, | fishing in the Nile.
Then one day, you're selected
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