Do you know anything about the Egyptian pyramids?  I'm planning a family trip to see them next summer.
I know that the Egyptian pyramids date back as far as 2611 BC.
That's what is so crazy about them, thats almost 5000 years and they are still standing!  What's the weather like in Egypt?
I'm not sure. But you'd want to look up the weather fro Saqqara, northwest of Memphis if you want to see the earliest known pyramids.
Ah Saqqara is where they are located?  How big are they?  Do you know?
There are a lot of pyramids a saqqara like the STep pyramid of Djoser. They aren't small, but these earlier pyramids are much smaller than the Great Pyramid at Giza.
I bet the small ones would be pretty neat as well, but I have to see how big the Great Pyramid at Giza.  Sounds amazing, any other things I should know?
Well there is the one fact that attracts people to the Great Pyramid. It stood uncontested as the tallest manmade structure in the world for more than 3,800 years.
And still they are arguing on how they actually built that massive manmade structure, it's so interesting.
Pyramidology
Pyramidology (or pyramidism) refers to various religious or pseudoscientific speculations regarding pyramids, most often the Giza pyramid complex and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. Some "pyramidologists" also concern themselves with the monumental structures of pre-Columbian America (such as Teotihuacan, the Mesoamerican Maya civilization, and the Inca of the South American Andes), and the temples of Southeast Asia.
Some pyramidologists claim that the Great Pyramid of Giza has encoded within it predictions for the exodus of Moses from Egypt, the crucifixion
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