Vol 2 Ep 14 - Ancient Egypt: The Pyramids

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

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🗓️ 28 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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2600 - 1525 BCE - An attempt to decipher the mystery of the last remaining wonder of the ancient world, The Great Pyramid of Giza, as well as all the other pyramids, the people who built them and their motives and methods. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History of the World Podcast. My name is Chris Hasler.
0:07.0	And you're listening to volume 2, The Ancient World.
0:13.7	This is episode 14.
0:16.4	The Pyramids. Oh, The most amazing thing to modern humans about ancient times are the pyramids.
0:48.0	It's that simple.
0:50.0	They are the ultimate aspect of the ancient world.
0:55.0	They gather more interest than anything.
0:58.0	They are awesome and they are a mystery.
1:02.0	They excite debate and from many different perspectives, all of which
1:07.5	deserve consideration due to the lack of conclusiveness regarding their presence. Today we will try to make as much
1:16.4	sense as we can of these incredible constructions and try to keep an open mind
1:21.9	about the reason for the pyramids.
1:25.0	They were used as tombs for the ancient Egyptian pharaohs,
1:30.0	so firstly we should go back to the origin of ancient Egyptian tombs such as the
1:37.0	mastobah.
1:40.0	Mastabas. So what do we already know about the Masseba tombs of ancient Egypt?
1:50.0	The first ones predated the pyramids.
1:53.8	They were often made of mud bricks.
1:56.9	So this would have been a gathering of densely packed materials of the earth, moistened and allowed to dry to create a building block.
2:07.6	The mud bricks would be set out in a large rectangular shape with more courses being added to give the
2:15.8	construction its eventual height which in these cases could be as much as
2:21.2	30 feet. So 5 to 6 times taller than the average human being.
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