HUH BUT THAT’S NOT A BUILDING iT’S A MOUNTAIN WELL THE EGYPTIANS DIDN’T MAKE IT OUT OF LITTLE PLASTIC BRICKS THE AVERAGE WEIGHT OF ONE OF THE STONES IS TWO AND A HALF TONS AND THERE ARE ABOUT 2 3 MILLION OF THEM IN ALL DO YOU WANT TO CHECK UM i BELIEVE YOU 4
WHEN YOU SEE IT UP CLOSE IT DOESN’T REALLY LOOK FINISHED DOES IT iT WASN’T LIKE THAT TO BEGIN WITH WHOA IT SURE IS TALL ORIGINALLY 482 FEET SINCE THEN IT’S LOST THE TOP 30 FEET OR SO BUT IT’S STILL PRETTY IMPRESSIVE LOOK THAT’S THE NILE DOWN THERE iT HAD A TOP PIECE CALLED A PYRAMIDION PROBABLY GOLD-PLATED AND THE SIDES WERE COATED IN WHITE CHALK SO THEY WERE ALL SMOOTH THAT MADE IT GLEAM IN THE SUN SO IT LOOKED SUPERNATURAL 5 WOW NO WONDER THEY CALLED IT A WONDER
SO WHY DOESN’T IT LOOK LIKE THAT ANYMORE iT’S VERY OLD YOU KNOW iT WAS BUILT IN 2550 B C THAT’S ABOUT 4,500 YEARS AGO iT’S HAD TO WITHSTAND SANDSTORMS BOMBS POLLUTION NOT TO MENTION RAIDERS TREASURE-HUNTERS AND TOURISTS SO STOP SCRATCHING IT FOR NEARLY 4,000 YEARS IT WAS THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD iT WAS THE FIRST OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD TO BE BUILT AND TODAY IT’S THE ONLY ONE STILL STANDING THE LAST ONE THE LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA FOR EXAMPLE FELL DOWN 700 YEARS AGO 6
SO IS IT IN A PLACE CALLED CHEOPS CHEOPS IS THE NAME OF THE MAN WHO BUILT NO IT HE WAS A PHARAOH A KIND OF KING OF EGYPT YES BECAUSE PHARAOHS WERE CONSIDERED TO BE GODS THAT LIVED AMONG MEN THE PYRAMID WAS SUPPOSED TO ALLOW HIS SOUL TO REJOIN RA THE SUN GOD AFTER HIS DEATH AND THE PYRAMID IS HIS TOMB REALLY BUT IT’S ENORMOUS THAT’S WHY CHEOPS STARTED DESIGNING HIS TOMB AS SOON AS HE BECAME PHARAOH iT TOOK 20 YEARS TO BUILD iT WAS BARELY FINISHED IN TIME 7
