Pyramid Quest: Secrets of the Great Pyramid and the Dawn of Civilization

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The Egyptologist acclaimed for re-dating the Great Sphinx at Giza sets his sights on one of the most true mysteries of antiquity: the Great Pyramid of Giza.

What is the Great Pyramid of Giza? Ask that basic question of a traditional Egyptologist, and you get the basic, traditional answer: a fancy tombstone for a self-important pharaoh of the Old Kingdom. This, Egyptologists argue, is the sole finding according to the data, and the only deduction supported by science.

By implication, someone who dissents from this viewpoint is unscientific and woolly-minded-a believer in magic and ghosts. Indeed, one of the most unconventional ideas about the Great Pyramid do have a spectacularly fabulous ring to them. Yet from beneath the most obvious terms of this controversy, a deeper, more significant question arises: how is it that the Great Pyramid exercises this kind of gripping hold on the human psyche- adding cryptic grace to the back of the one-dollar bill and framing myriad claims of New Age “pyramid power”?

In Pyramid Quest, Robert M. Schoch and Robert Aquinas McNally use the rigorous intellectual analysis of scientific inquiry to investigate what we know about the Great Pyramid, and develop a stunning hypothesis: This ancient monument is the strongest proof yet that civilization started thousands of years earlier than is normally thought, extending far back into a little-known time. In tracing that story, we come to remember not only the Great Pyramid but also our own origins as civilized beings.

 

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