As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
Henry David Thoreau
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
Edward Young
These are the first uncovered walls of the pyramid. We can see the surface is perfectly flat. This is the crucial material proof that we are talking pyramids.
Semir Osmanagic
Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed.
James Chiles
The notion is that the tunnel connects all the pyramids in the valley, and now we are at the start of the mapping and excavation process of the tunnel.
Semir Osmanagic
Two or three times older than New Grange or the pyramids, these people were some hundreds of generations removed from living Aboriginal Australians.
John Mulvaney
When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.
Walter Cronkite
The magic and stuff was all in conjunction with the story of the pyramids. You can't just do that kind of thing if it doesn't make sense, tell a story. That was all part of our Afro-centric consciousness.
Verdine White
They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.
Anna Louise Strong
The way the Maya built pyramids is by building one layer on top of another. We have [the building where the writing was found] sandwiched between two other buildings. We can get a date from the building itself, but also a range from the other two.
William Saturno
The ancient Egyptians loved beer a lot. We found many important evidence proving that the workmen drink beer in the morning and in the evening, and this is to show that drinking beer helped a lot in building the pyramids.
Zahi Hawas
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