In the centuries before Christ, when Alexandria was pre-eminent among the cities of the Greek world and its citizens were great travellers, there were seven wonders whose reputation surpassed all others and which everyone wanted to see. Six of these have disappeared. Only one remains for us to visit: the pyramids of Egypt.
Without the benefit of so much as a single pulley, the Egyptians built mountains of stone and, with a precision that is truly astonishing, laid these out on the desert floor. Yet the more puzzling question is why and not how they built them. Why did the Egyptians choose to build pyramids when, so far as we know, they had never been built before? Why did they build them so big and of such precision? Why did they scatter them around the desert instead of building them all in one place? This documentary tries to answer those questions. It is based on the book “The Orion Mystery” by Robert Bauval.
tags: Pyramids, Robert Bauval