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were created in mystery and their shadow falls across the ages.

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People wonder how 5000 years ago they moved these huge stones.

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They reached to the heavens and some say it is from there that their builders came.

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There are a lot of mysteries about it.

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We could not successfully produce another one today.

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They were tombs and temples, observatories and enigmas.

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The power is still explored today.

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They are the pyramids.

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What beyond what is known is an unexplored world of shadows and phantoms.

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A land that knows noliness of time or space.

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From the dawn of discovery to the nightfall of catastrophe.

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Journey to a universe of the unexplained.

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The unperceived, the unbelievable.

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A place beyond reality where no question will go unanswered.

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A place where myth and legend are law, superstition and science.

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The time for our journey to begin.

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You stand in ancient majesty.

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The pyramids.

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Knowledge surrises these library walls and with these instruments that knowledge can be ours.

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2700 years before the birth of Christ.

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Most men lived close to the earth inside dwellings constructing from it.

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But in the land called Egypt, one man had a vision.

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He wanted to construct something immortal.

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Something that the world had never seen before.

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Something called a pyramid.

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His name was Imhotep, scribe, physician.

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Mystic and architect.

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He lived in a land that even today arises wonder.

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A civilization that may have possessed knowledge that we can only guess at.

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And Imhotep was the keeper of that knowledge.

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Imhotep was worshipped even by the ancient Egyptian Azikat.

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And he made some similarity between him and the god of medicine of the Greek.

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And he was just like a myth to the ancient Egyptian.

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I think Imhotep was definitely a genius for his ability to be exceptionally innovative.

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He certainly qualified himself as one of the greatest thinkers of ancient Egypt.

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In approximately 2680 BC, Imhotep was charged with building a tomb for his friend and pharaoh, Zosa.

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His intellect rose to the challenge for Imhotep literally invented the pyramid.

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And his creation still stands today.

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It's an extraordinarily large complex built in stone.

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He used architectural details translated into stone for the very first time.

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It stands as one of the most prominent monuments for its size and complexity.

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And also its lack of information about it.

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To be able to plan and economically accomplish such a large feat for the pharaoh is extraordinary.

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This was the first time man had built with stone.

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The first time that man had built anything even remotely of this size.

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And one of the first buildings designed to be a work of art.

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Not just a convenience.

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Perhaps most significant of the size of the building was the building.

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Perhaps most significantly for our story, Zosa's pyramid began a cycle of creation that still continues today.

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This magnificent object is a symbol of genius, of ambition and of dedication.

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For it is believed to have taken 30 years to construct.

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And that construction is not the least of its miracles.

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Though pyramid building would reach greater and greater levels of sophistication,

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the basic innovations of Imhotep would survive the ages.

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Though the dimensions and purpose would undergo change.

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As he built this first step pyramid,

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Imhotep seemed to improvise as he went along.

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And as construction progressed,

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it appears that the great builder improvised both the design and building techniques.

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Techniques unfortunately lost to the ages.

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Imhotep was richly rewarded for his genius.

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He became a god to later generations of Egyptians.

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Even the Greeks did fight him.

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What must tantalise archaeologists and treasure hunters is that Imhotep's tomb still exists,

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hidden somewhere under the shifting sands of Egypt.

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Over a hundred years after Imhotep's brilliant construction,

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the pharaoh Chiobs built perhaps the ultimate pyramid.

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And this great pyramid, as it is so aptly named, still stands

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the only surviving wonder of the ancient world.

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There are three major pyramids at Eza.

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And the great pyramid is the tallest.

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So it is looked upon as the grandfather monument in a sense.

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People began to realise that the earth and sky were separate.

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And this was an attempt to reach it, to reach those gods up there.

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There are a lot of mysteries about it, of course.

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Its accuracy and its alignment, the materials used,

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that site in particular, in its placement of Egypt.

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People have wondered who could create such a grand monument.

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One of the most enduring mysteries about this great pyramid is what lies inside.

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Man has been trying to penetrate its interior for literally thousands of years.

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Yet apparently, there still are secret chambers.

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It's containing what?

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Experts wonder.

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I would like to know, as everyone likes to know, what are the secrets of the pyramids?

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What are behind these walls and the walls?

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Now, what do you think about these kind of passages?

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People wonder. That's really something that's bothering me as an Egyptologist.

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This is a mystery of the great pyramid.

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There are literally hundreds of theories concerning these mysterious passages.

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And no single theory is close to being proven.

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For me, there is some mystery.

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That the ancient Egyptian left that we do not know.

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And of course, future research and future work

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can maybe make some light on these kind of things.

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And today, the great pyramid stands with lesser pyramids

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and eternal mystery is still in attendance.

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Modern science is determined to unlock the secrets of the great pyramid.

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These discoveries have already unearthed in fact,

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which may force us to reconsider our perceptions of the ancient world.

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The architects of these pyramids may have possessed knowledge

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that staggers the imagination.

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Modern science prides itself on finding an answer to everything.

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But even today, with our sophisticated technology,

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we would be hard pressed to equal the perfection of the great pyramid.

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Perfection that deserves analysis.

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If we make some simple calculations using the pyramids' dimensions,

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we discover that the measurements of the base factored into the height

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gives us the exact figure known as pi, a formula thought to have been discovered

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thousands of years later by the Greeks.

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It's fantastic.

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How could such a monumental structure have been built?

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Well, there have been many theories over the ages.

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The builders of the pyramids left no records as to how they did it.

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Egyptologists can only speculate as to the exact method of construction.

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Most people agree that the huge limestone blocks were quarried nearby

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and dragged to the site on sledges pulled by brute force.

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But that doesn't begin to explain how these huge stones were set in place,

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nor the pyramid's astonishing precision of dimension.

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We could not successfully produce another one today,

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as accurately, in the same amount of time.

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So of course we must wonder how were they able to accomplish this in terms of technique.

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Could the ancient Egyptians have possessed knowledge long since forgotten?

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Or could it be something else?

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In the 1850s, a British Egyptologist named John Taylor proposed a theory that has refused to die,

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namely that the great pyramid was constructed not by the Egyptians,

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but by some superior race for their own obscure reasons.

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Speculations about their identity range from the high priests of Atlantis

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to creatures from outer space.

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There are theories of extraterrestrial involvement with such sites as the pyramids,

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but I feel the ancients had a great deal more profound practical knowledge

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than we would give them credit for.

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These people were saying that some people have arrived from the sky and built it.

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I think it is very silly question.

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I've seen nothing that would indicate to me that it was not built by human beings.

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Every mark there seems to be the sort of mark a human being would make.

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There are marks on the stones which recognize this gang and that gang,

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the happy gang and the hard-working gang.

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These are very ordinary earthy comments for extraterrestrial type magic.

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Who really built the pyramids?

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And why?

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There are many people who think that the answer to that question is literally the key to understanding the universe,

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the key that may soon be discovered.

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The pyramids stand silent in the heat of the desert,

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defying as to unravel its mystery.

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The pyramids were built each one to honor a pharaoh.

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There is a name of the pharaoh associated with each one.

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But of course, no bodies of pharaohs have been found in the pyramids.

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And so one can question whether they were only burial temples or whether they had another purpose.

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What was their purpose?

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One arcane theory is that they were built in anticipation of a great natural catastrophe.

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There are legends that indicate or that describe the pyramid having been built

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to preserve technology or objects or knowledge because they anticipated the flood.

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As described by the architect, it is an extremely stable form to preserve anything buried below it.

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Is there evidence of this great flood?

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Some say yes.

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There are some individuals who have analyzed the erosion of the pyramid that indicates that about a level of two-thirds in height,

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there are erosion effects on the great pyramid exterior,

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which they would trace back to the great flood, which did occur.

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Another explanation that refuses to die is this ancient astronaut theory.

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Other pyramids actually control towers of some interstellar airport.

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It is very doubtful, but it is undeniably entertaining.

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These fantastic theories have created a modern day obsession with pyramids and the powers that many believe they contain.

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Do these strange powers really exist?

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And if so, is it possible for us to tap into them?

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The powers that the ancients created within the angles and peaks that made the pyramid have survived into our modern world.

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What are these powers? And how do they manifest themselves?

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On June 29, 1798, the great Napoleon conquered Egypt in a battle literally fought in the shadows of the great pyramid.

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To commemorate his victory, he entered the king's chamber in the bowels of the structure.

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He went in alone and came out ashen-faced.

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Something happened to him while inside.

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And many years later, near the end of his life, he was still haunted by his experience.

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No one would ever believe me, he said, when asked to tell what had occurred within that ghostly chamber.

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What did happen to Napoleon?

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Why were pyramids also built over 6,000 miles away in Mexico?

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What is it about the design of pyramids that give them their strange power over the imagination of man?

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I think that the pyramids are more than burial places for the pharaohs and they are such a distinctive shape that there must have been some meaning that's escaping us.

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I think, in fact, I've suggested that they reach to the sky that the Pyramidian tip at the top was thought by them to connect to the sky gods.

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It seems that all cultures that have built pyramids have in fact had solar cults related to solar symbolism.

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It may be a conscious identification with the sun rays descending to the earth, which is a beautiful symbol.

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It might be also that the pattern of the four-fold base symbolizes the four cardinal directions and the geometric beauty of form.

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Additional questions remain. How did it come to pass that completely different cultures built these similar structures?

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Coincidence? An exchange of ideas?

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Or a metaphysical response to the forces of nature that inspired other religious structures around the world?

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Impulses that may still echo in our modern era?

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Because that may inspire modern-day pyramids.

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The Pyramidian tip is to make the pyramids look like they are in the sky.

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According to believers in pyramid power, objects placed under a pyramid are affected in strange ways.

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For example, razor blades are said to stay sharper.

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Truth, like this apple, keeps fresher.

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And a rose is claimed to retain its scent and shape longer.

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Some skeptics refer to people who believe in these powers as pyramidiots.

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But many claim that a pyramid somehow has an effect on inanimate objects.

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But what about living creatures?

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If the pyramids do have powers, perhaps people who spend time inside them might just share in this sense of wonder.

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And today in San Francisco, that theory can be put to the test.

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On certain days there is a movement there that you think may have more to do with the elements than with the building itself.

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So perhaps to some degree there is some mystical quality to it.

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I go into this building all the time and I haven't experienced anything vastly different than I have in any other office building in San Francisco.

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Well, there's some magic to it, but it's just people in the pyramid itself. That's why it makes it great.

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Well, according to experts, the dimensions of this pyramid are incorrect for inspiration.

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But still, true believers can be found.

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So in an appearance for 15 minutes and a half an hour a day, I myself found that my reading speed increased.

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My study ability and perception increased. I was able to learn things very quickly.

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This is a pyramid energy generator. It's something we have been selling for many years.

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It creates an energy field above it. You can place it under your pillow, under your mattress.

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You can place a water bottle on top of it. And we sell it for around $10 and we've sold thousands of them over the years and people love them.

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So, the pyramid part seems to be in the mind's eye of the bolder.

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Perhaps the agents did know something we don't about the parts of the pyramids.

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Secrets that may one day be rediscovered.

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Perhaps the most incredible thing about the pyramids is their ability to inspire, to transfix, to propel the conscious and unconscious forward.

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Every night when I look, they sit alone in front of the Greek pyramid of Gryps.

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And they look more deeply. I see and I think there is more and more of more mysteries that we don't know about them.

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One feels very natural there. It doesn't feel like being there the first time, sincerely.

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There is a very subtle feeling of an ancient confidence.

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The great pyramids of Egypt stand today, silent, mysterious, watching the rise and fall of the sun.

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Perhaps their only constant companion on their voyage through eternity.

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Their secrets may always remain hidden inside their stone faces. Faces blank in expression, void of feeling, alone in their ancient splendour.

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Some pyramids have stood for 5000 years. Many will stand for 5000 more.

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Whatever their function, they exist as enduring monuments to what man can do when he allows his mind to create his hands to build.

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Your true power is in your very existence.

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May you continue to stand the test of time.

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The end.

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Secrets and mysteries presents information based in part on theories and opinions, some of which are controversial.

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The answer's purpose is not to validate any side of an issue, but through the use of actualities and grammatical creation relate a possible answer, but not the only answer to this material.

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Thank you for watching.