Inside the Great Pyramid
The Great Pyramids of Giza prove to be closer to Cairo than I had ever imagined. The Pyramids loom over your head as you head down a busy road filled with houses and people going about their business. The roundabout is crazy and hectic with cars honking, cars crashing into one another before going on to their final destination. Then amidst all this madness, the Great Pyramids suddenly appear before you as if it were just another construction. An extremely large and over-powering one though. I get off the car and look up at the Great Pyramid. It is indeed far bigger than I could have ever imagined. Stones used to build this is said to weigh on average 2.5 tonnes with some stones at the base said to weigh as much as 15 tonnes. The pyramid is perfectly symmetrical yet it was built over 5,000 years ago. The ancient Egyptians had understood geometry since times past. Fascinating. I rub its rocks and am dumbfounded a...