Why would ten thousand men toil for twenty years to build an artificial mountain of stone?
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phenomena as parts of a deliberate and coordinated government policy designed to snuff out local autonomy and replace it with a new, absolute dependency on central authority.
Ernesto Argiróciteerde uit8 jaar geleden
neb Maat. The common translation, ‘lord of truth’, scarcely does it justice
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Egyptians’ penchant for monumentality
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breathtaking precision, its orientation to true north diverging by only one-twentieth of one degree.
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It is tempting to see these phenomena as parts of a deliberate and coordinated government policy designed to snuff out local autonomy and replace it with a new, absolute dependency on central authority.
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Yet despite its massive size, it is engineered and aligned with breathtaking precision, its orientation to true north diverging by only one-twentieth of one degree.
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For forty-four centuries, until the completion of the Eiffel Tower in AD 1889, it was the tallest building in the world.