The Pyramids

[anotheoldgit]

I opened Google search this morning and they are doing a wonderful Google Maps on the Pyramids, if anyone is interested?

[jno]

I was hoping they'd driven one of their camera cars into the burial chamber :-(

There are more pyramids next door in Sudan than there are in Egypt. Not as big, though.

[Graham-W]

I'm always amazed to think the Egyptians were building Pyramids and temples on that scale at the same time as we British were standing a few stones up and calling it Stonehenge.

[Svejk]

nothing shabby about Stonehenge.

[Old_Geezer]

Well Nile Delta and all that. I think that part of the world had a head start at getting organised and powerful.

[sunny-dave]

Old Giza?

[Graham-W]

I agree there's nothing shabby about Stonehenge. It's very impressive. I've stood next to both and they both take my breath away, but Stonehenge is surely not in the same league as a Pyramid.

[Peter Pedant]

jno is correctus - at Meroe mostly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mero%C3%AB

I regret now in pieces as their tops were blown off by treasure hunters

[sandyRoe]

There must have been climate change on a massive scale since the days those were built.^ While it's a desert not there would have been lush vegetation to enable a society to thrive and build those.

[sandyRoe]

*now, not 'not' ^

[janbee]

Having seen the Pyramids and Stonehenge, I would have to pick The Pyramids. They are waaaayyyy more impressive.

[Mosaic]

For Sandy: http://www.touregypt.net/images/touregypt/pyramidreligion1.jpg
Until the Nile was dammed at Aswan in the 1960s, the annual floods reached the bit where the Sphinx is - the mortuary temples of the Pyramids at Giza. The canny ancient folk built the grand tombs of the dead beyond the lush well-watered land of the valley bottom. You climb up the incline on the west side of the river to reach the pyramids and other tombs. No major climate difference between then and now.