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This is Egypt, land
of the great pyramids.
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The land of the
golden Pharaoh's, the land of
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Anthony and Cleopatra.
Here Abraham came in search of
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food and fortune.
Joseph ruled as Prime Minister.
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Here Moses received
the Ten Commandments
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and here Jesus and
His family found refuge.
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Welcome to 5,000 years
of astonishing history.
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I invite you to join me on
a journey back through time
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to this strange and mysterious
land where in the past
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gods were Kings
and Kings were gods.
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We will visit majestic temples
and admire gigantic sculptures
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we'll explore long-sealed tombs,
deserted cities and fabulous
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palaces and tombs
weighing millions of tons.
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And as we journey back through
time, we may be influenced by
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the compelling evidence
to acknowledge the power
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of the
supernatural, a higher power.
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Egypt is one of the lands
of the Bible, in fact, Egypt
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is mentioned over
600 times in the Bible
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more than any other
nation outside of Israel.
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Of the 66 books of the Bible,
Egypt is mentioned in 29 of
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them. Egypt obviously plays
an important role in the Bible.
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Most of the Bible references
to Egypt revolve around the
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lives four prominent
men. Abraham came to Egypt
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during the time of famine
in Canaan and left with great
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riches. Joseph was sold as
a slave into Egypt and rose
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to the position of Prime
Minister. Later Jacob his father
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along with his brothers moved
to Egypt and settled in the
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Nile Delta. Moses was born
in Egypt and raised as a Royal
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Prince in the palace of Pharaoh.
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He had to flee the country
but later returned to lead his
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people out of Egypt
to the Promised Land.
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Jesus Christ was taken
to Egypt by Mary and Joseph
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to escaped Herod who
was trying to kill him.
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Now, when Abraham came to Egypt,
the pyramids were already over
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600 years old. Then they
would have been covered in
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gleaming white Terra Limestone
and possibly with a huge gold
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cap on top. The limestone and
gold are gone but the pyramid's
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mystery and majesty continue
to amaze and astound us.
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Built 4,500 years ago these
pyramids are still the largest
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manmade structures in the world.
Today the great pyramids of
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Giza stand as a memorial
to the glorious civilization
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of the Pharaoh's
45 centuries ago.
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They are the most famous, most
visited and most photographed
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structures on earth. The
Giza pyramids are considered
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the greatest of the Seven
Wonders of the Ancient World
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and are the only ones still
standing, rising mysteriously
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and majestically above the
desert sand, the Giza pyramids
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continue to
amaze and confound us.
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Now, the largest of the
three Giza pyramids is the
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Pyramid of Cheops often
called the Great Pyramid.
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It weighs more than five million
tons and covers the equivalent
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of ten football fields.
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It's hard to grasp just
how enormous it actually is,
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in its base area of five hectors
or 13 acres, there's enough room
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to contain Hagia Sophia's mosque
in Turkey, the Taj Mahal of
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India and the
Roman Colosseum in Italy.
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But that's not all, you
could also, fit in Notre Dame
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Cathedral of Paris, Westminster
Abbey of London, and for good
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measure you could also
throw in the Sydney Opera House.
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The Great Pyramid contains over
21/2 million sandstone blocks
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each weighing an average
21/2 tons and measuring about
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a meter in each direction.
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But even more astonishing than
the size of the Great Pyramid
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is the accuracy
of it's construction.
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These massive stones are
cut and fitted so accurately
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that a sheet of paper
can't be inserted in the joints
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between them. It embodies
amazing architectural skills
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and is a marvel of
precise engineering
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We could barely
match these skills today.
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Now, why all this huge effort
to build these great pyramids?
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Well, let's go inside
and see if we can find out.
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The entrance is on the
north side of the pyramid,
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this passage was cut by
tomb robbers and leads into the
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center of the Great Pyramid.
We climbed down this corridor
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for about 30 meters and then
ascend for a further 40 meters
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and it leads to the Grand
Gallery, this is an awesome site
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and an architectural master-
piece. This great chamber
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is about 50 meters
long and ten meters high.
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Beyond the Grand Gallery a
narrow passageway leads to the
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burial chamber, here we find
the king's huge empty granite
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sarcophagus. You see the ancient
Egyptians regarded their pharaoh
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as a living god and they went
to extreme lengths to ensure
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that his body was
preserved after he died
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and that he was buried in a tomb
that would last for eternity
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and that's why
they built the pyramids.
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The enormous size and
geometrical precision of these
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pyramids have aroused
endless speculation and theories
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as to their design and
origin. Somehow 46 centuries ago
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more than six
million limestone blocks
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were piled up to 40 stories
high to build the three royal
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tombs of the
pharaohs. Incredibly, the entire
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construction was
completed in less than 70 years.
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Without modern technology,
workers lifted blocks weighing
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21/2 tons with the larger
blocks weighing 15 tons each
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and put them in place at a rate
of one about every two minutes.
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How did they
accomplish this monumental task?
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How did they lift these
huge stones weighing as much as
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15 tons 40 stories high?
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And how did they
perfect the pyramid design?
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Well, these are the
secrets of the pharaohs,
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secrets that have remained
hidden for thousands of years.
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But now, archeologists
are uncovering evidence that's
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shedding light on these ancient
secrets. Many archeologists
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now believe that new evidence
shows that the ancient Egyptians
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used ramps that spiraled
up the sides of the unfinished
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pyramid to move the
stone blocks up to the top.
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Recent discoveries
seem to support this idea.
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For centuries a popular
myth held that the stone for the
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pyramids came from a faraway
quarry, but now the source
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of the stone has been found
to be a quarry just 300 meters
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from the base of
the Great Pyramid.
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Generations missed this quarry
because it was filled with
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strange debris, now it
seems that this strange rubble
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is all that is left from the
pyramid's construction ramps.
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When the workers completed
the pyramid, they pulled down
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the ramps and dumped
the remains in the quarry.
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So, slowly but surely
the secrets of the pharaohs
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are being unlocked as
archeologists piece together
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the clues that explain the
construction of the pyramids.
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For example, now the design
development of these awesome
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pyramid tombs can be traced
and it's fascinating to follow
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the stages of progression.
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The first pharaohs were
buried in flat tombs called
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mastabas. Now early
mastabas were built of mud/brick
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but later they
were built of stone.
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Below ground these mastabas
tombs were built like houses
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with separate chambers
for possessions. The mastaba
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is the basic form which all
of the pyramids in Egypt grew.
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A genius named Amenhotep
took the first decisive step in
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pyramid construction, he
was the Prime Minister to
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Pharaoh Zozo and was
a brilliant architect.
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When building his masters
mastabas tomb, he used stone
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instead of mud/brick. He then
placed five stead tiers on top
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of this mastaba to create
the world's first skyscraper.
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The magnificent step pyramid
at Saqqara and so the first
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pyramid was born. The Egyptians
firm belief in an after-life
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was the fundamental driving
force that led to the piling up
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of stone on such a monumental
scale. It embodies six giant
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stone steps by which the
king could ascend to the heavens
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after death. The step pyramid
is the oldest stone monument
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in the world and ushered
in age of pyramid building,
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it's the prototype
of all later pyramids.
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The next step in the pyramid
construction took place a Meydum
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some 60 kilometers
south of the step pyramid.
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Here at Meydum the builders
attempted to make the first
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true pyramid. A tomb of eight
steps was erected and then,
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they filled in the steps
to convert it to a pyramid
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with smooth sides. However
the attempt ended in disaster.
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It came down with a bang
in a huge avalanche of stone.
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Due to structural weaknesses
caused by the serious design
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faults of the over-ambitious
architect, it collapsed when
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the building was nearly finished
in one great instantaneous
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catastrophe. Today Meydum
pyramid stands surrounded by
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a mound of 250,000 tons of
lime- stone formed by the debris
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of its own destruction.
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Now, the collapse of the pyramid
of Meydum served as a warning
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for the construction of
another pyramid that pharaoh's
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nephew had underway...
The Bent Pyramid of Dahshur.
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In order to prevent a repetition
of the disaster of Meydum
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this pyramid was
given an odd shape.
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It slopes upward from its
base at an angle of 54° similar
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to the one at Meydum then,
it suddenly changes to a 43°
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incline, giving
it a bent appearance.
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Apparently the first angle
of inclination was too steep
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Sneferu's architect feared
that the pyramid would collapse
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like the one at Meydum
unless the angle was changed.
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So he immediately changed
the angle of the construction
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and designed the top half of
the pyramid at a shallow angle
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to prevent the weight of
the pyramid from causing it to
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buckle and collapse.
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Pharaoh Sneferu was too great
a king to accept burial in a
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bent pyramid, he considered
it defective and unsafe
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and so ordered another
pyramid built nearby called
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The Red Pyramid. As can be
seen, the architect was still
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playing safe and constructed
the pyramid at a very shallow
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angle of 43°. The Red
Pyramid of Sneferu at Dahshur
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was the first true pyramid
and the way was now clear
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for his son and
successor Pharaoh Cheops
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to build The Great Pyramid
of Giza, the largest structure
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ever built.
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So we now know that the ancient
Egyptians developed the design
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and construction techniques
through painful trial and error.
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The clues are being
pieced together by archeologists
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who are slowly unraveling
the secrets of the pharaohs.
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So far these clues indicate
that the pyramids were built
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by thousands of workers and
skilled craftsman during the
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slack season, the three
or four months of last summer
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when the yearly Nile
flood made farming impossible.
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The limestone was brought
from Tura about 10 km away
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and the granite
from nearby quarries.
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Quarrymen used mallets of
ultra-hard dolerite to chip
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slots in the rock into which
they inserted wedges of wood
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soaked with water the
wood expanded until the block
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of rock split off. Stone-masons
then use copper saws and
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chisels to shape each
chunk of quarried rock into a
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pyramid building block.
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They would leave it on top
of wooden sleds and hold by
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gangs of workers over log
rollers to the construction
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site, there the finishing
touches were added and the
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blocks were then ready to be
hauled up the ramps and
maneuvered into their
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final position. The
ramps eventually reached to the
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very top of the pyramid.
Once the structure's sandstone
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gold cap was in place, the
mason's worked their way down
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again finishing the pyramid
in its limestone veneer and
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dismantling the
ramps as they went.
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The ancient Egyptians were
skilled craftsman and brilliant
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engineers, these pyramids are
astounding feats of engineering.
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But even more astounding
are a series of predictions
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made about ancient Egypt,
its pharaoh's, its economy,
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and it's capital city.
Predictions that have been
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fulfilled with
an uncanny accuracy.
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Let's investigate a
few of them together.
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Hidden in the cliffs behind
Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple
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lies the fabled Valley of
the Kings. Forty-nine pharaohs
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were buried in secret chambers
hidden in this arid and desolate
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valley, a reminder that Egypt
had the longest line of kings
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of any nation on earth.
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For over 2,000 years Egyptian
Princes had reigned supreme
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and had be buried here
in the Valley of the Kings
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and while Egypt was a
mighty power and these kings sat
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on the throne, along
came a little Bible prophet
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by the name of Ezekiel and
he made an amazing prediction.
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Here it is in Ezekiel 30:13.
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And you know, although it may
seem too incredible to believe,
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it's simply a cold fact
of history that from 350 BC
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right down until today,
the land of the pharaohs
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has never had
an Egyptian prince.
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An Egyptian king has not
sat on the throne of Egypt.
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They've had Persians,
Greeks, Romans, Turks, French,
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and British overlords,
but never and Egyptian prince.
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In my travels, I
visited many interesting places
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and investigated many
strange and wonderful things
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and I've investigated
some of the Bible's predictions
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about ancient Egypt and I
found that not only is the Bible
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historically accurate,
but amazingly, its predictions
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about the future come true.
They've been fulfilled in every
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detail. Here's another one of
these amazing Bible prophecies,
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when these mighty pharaohs
rule the world, much of Egypt's
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wealth came from
exporting paper to the world.
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The Egyptians were the very
first people in the world to
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make paper and they made
it from the papyrus plant.
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These papyrus reeds grew in
abundance along the Nile River,
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there were millions of
them. The ancient Egyptians
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harvested the papyrus
reeds and developed a simple
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process of
turning them into paper.
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After harvesting the plant,
they peeled away the outer
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fibers and sliced the
stalk into thin strips,
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they then placed the strips
side by side and a second layer
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on top in an
overlapping rib pattern,
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the strips were then
placed between layers of cloth
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and pounded with a wooden
mallet before being placed
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under a heavy slab to dry.
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This paper brought
great wealth to the Egyptians,
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it was cheap and easy to
make and they had an abundant
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seemingly never-ending
source of papyrus reeds,
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but today the
papyrus reeds are gone.
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It's amazing but the banks of
the Nile are clean, totally free
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of the papyrus reed. Why
has the paper reed disappeared?
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Well thousands of years ago
when Egypt was at the height
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of her power and when the
papyrus reeds grew prolifically
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along the Nile...Here's what the
Bible prophet Isaiah predicted
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in Isaiah 19:7.
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And that's exactly what happened
from one end of Egypt to the
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other, the Nile is completely
free of papyrus reeds.
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There are many predictions
like this in the Bible
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I'm amazed at how accurately
they've all been fulfilled,
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it's uncanny.
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The wonders of ancient Egypt
are everywhere in this land
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and so is the
evidence of Bible prophecy.
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Consider for example the
great city of ancient Memphis.
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During the time when
the pharaohs ruled the world
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and the great pyramids were
built Memphis was the religious
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and political capital of
Egypt. It was one of most famous
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and spectacular cities of
the ancient world studded with
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gleaming stone
temples and palaces.
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This fabulous city was
the capitol of the empire
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for thousands of years. However
today all the grandeur of
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Memphis is gone. The statues and
idols have either been smashed
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and broken, or
they've disappeared.
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They're all gone or broken,
it's a barren and desolate place
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What happened to
this once great city,
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well I'm going to
read you another remarkable
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Bible prophecy. Back in
the days when Memphis was
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a great city and
seemed almost indestructable,
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the Bible prophet Ezekiel
made an amazing prediction
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about it, you can
read it in Ezekiel 30:13.
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This Bible prophecy has
been fulfilled in every detail.
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The desolation of Memphis
is unique, other large Egyptian
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cities have been destroyed
but their statues and idols
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are still there. You find that
at Karnac, the statues are still
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upright in all their glory.
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The same is true at Luxor,
the idols are there in broad
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daylight, at Abu
Simbel, the city is gone
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but the great statues have
been discovered and re-erected.
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But not so in Memphis, all that
remain are a few broken idols.
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Just as the Bible predicted,
the images and idols of Memphis
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have been destroyed.
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Now, I'd like to show you one
more Bible prophecy about Egypt,
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this is possibly the
most amazing of them all
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because it covers the
most history in this land.
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When Egypt was at
the height of its power
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and ruled over the nations,
here's what the Bible predicted
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in Ezekiel 29:15.
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That was some
prediction to make.
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Remember that at this time Egypt
had been a great world power
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for centuries, it
was a true super-power,
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it did indeed exalt
itself above other nations,
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it did indeed rule over many.
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The great pharaohs immortalized
in stone were part of an empire
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that no one would have
seen fading or would have seen
00:23:12.32\00:23:16.02
diminishing in power but believe
it or not, just like the Bible
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predicted several decades
after this prophecy was made
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Egypt was under
foreign denomination.
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First, the Persian
Empire ruled over the Egyptians
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then they were swallowed up
by the Greek and Roman Empires.
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The Otterman Turks would occupy
the seat of power these pharaohs
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had held for so long.
Much later European countries
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would yield power in this land.
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Yes, Egypt would never rule over
other nations again just as the
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Bible predicted. It's incredible
how these amazing Bible
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prophecies have all been
fulfilled. They are so diverse
00:24:01.97\00:24:07.11
and cover such a varied list
of subjects and yet they are
00:24:07.14\00:24:11.25
fulfilled in
every minute detail.
00:24:11.28\00:24:14.32
They are right every time.
Just consider these amazing
00:24:14.35\00:24:20.22
predictions. The long line
of Egyptian Princes is going
00:24:20.26\00:24:24.46
to just stop.
00:24:24.49\00:24:25.83
The papyrus reed is going
to inexplicably disappear.
00:24:25.86\00:24:30.47
The idols of Memphis
will be smashed into pieces.
00:24:30.50\00:24:34.44
And Egypt will no
longer rule over the nations.
00:24:34.47\00:24:38.94
Each prophecy, each prediction
has been accurately fulfilled.
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The Bible was
right on each occasion.
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As we travel through
the wonderful land of Egypt,
00:24:50.62\00:24:53.69
as we explore its magnificent
monuments and investigate
00:24:53.72\00:24:57.86
its long history, we discover
that not only is the Bible
00:24:57.89\00:25:02.20
historically accurate and
reliable, but its prophecies
00:25:02.23\00:25:06.23
and predictions are
remarkably fulfilled.
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Yes, a journey through
Egypt demonstrates that we can
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trust the Bible. It's
accurate, it's reliable, and its
00:25:14.94\00:25:19.28
prophecy's come true, in fact,
the Bible has an uncanny ability
00:25:19.31\00:25:24.69
to predict the future. The
Bible's prophecies have proved
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100% accurate over thousands
of years. Evidence of a
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higher power,
evidence of the divine.
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At times, the future can seem
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00:25:39.67\00:25:45.07
there is one thing that
makes the future very certain,
00:25:45.11\00:25:48.21
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the Bible.
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the Bible. We've seen
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