I am always reading about ancient Egypt. I just love it. Impossible building(s), impossible things (like granite sarcophagii), everything about ancient Egypt was impossible.
The funny thing is; the really impossible stuff was done at the start of it all, not at the end as you’d expect. I mean to get experience of building BIG you’d start small – a Public Convenience or small Temple perhaps…then go bigger as time went on, to end-up with the colosal Great Pyramid done perfectly. But no,no, Egypt wasn’t like that – you know LOGICAL! That’s part of the problem with it. The Pyramids, if the real Egyptologists are right, actually came first! It was all downhill after that.
They say too that the pyramids were tombs for Pharoahs. The first one being a Step Pyramid. Once they got the knack the step bit was smoothed-out a bit and true pyramids built. But they’ve never really found a body buried in a pyramid and to be honest I find that stacking-up millions of tons of stone – just to shove a body under, or in, it a bit of a mind-stretch. No, pyramids were for a far more realistic purpose…
I mean, today, what on earth would we use a huge, impregnable stone building for? Initially, I might add, a ‘stepped’ building.
Storing our GOLD perhaps?
Yup. It makes more sense don’t it? Especially when you look at pix of Fort Knox.
In England our GOLD store is The Bank of England on Threadneedle Street – not much of a place – mind you, there’s bugger all in it!
