The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.

Welcome to the History of the World Podcast magazine. Oh, yeah. Hello everyone. Welcome to the History of the world podcast and this week's magazine

episode now this weekend you're gonna get not one, not two, not even three publications.

You're going to get four publications.

You're going to get one today, one tomorrow, and two on the following day.

The first two that we're going to do are going to be magazine episodes.

We're going to continue our series on the history A to Z and the two

episodes you're going to receive are going to be both based on the letter B. Events and characters beginning

with the letter B. The day after that you're going to get an episode, a full

episode on the history of gunpowder or the emergence of gunpowder in the medieval

age and then of course you're going to get a debrief episode alongside that so loads to look forward to this weekend.

Anyway let's get back to this particular podcast and we continue our history A to Z and it's going to be

events and characters that begin with the letter B and we're going to start with the letter B.

And we're going to start with the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

And the Great Pyramid of Giza is also known as the pyramid of Kufu or Kiyops.

And it's the largest and oldest of the three pyramids on the Giza Plateau.

And it's also one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is described as something that remains a testament to the

architectural prowess of ancient Egypt and to this very day it continues to be a subject of fascination and

study and not least of all for its construction techniques and its purpose.

One of the most astonishing aspects of the Great Pyramid

is its north-south-east-west orientation.

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