comes to mind is the Pyramids. To construct such monuments required a

mastery of art, architecture and social organization that few cultures

would ever rival. The pyramids are said to have built Egypt by being

the force that knit together the kingdom's economy. Their creations

were so substantial, that the sight of these vast pyramids would take

your breath away. Today, the valley of the Nile has an open air

museum so people can witness these grand monuments.

Obsessed with the afterlife, Egypt's rulers of 4,500 years ago

glorified themselves in stone, thereby laying the foundation of the

first great nation-state. A Pyramid is an enormous machine that helps

the king go through the wall of the dead, achieve resurrection and

live forever in the happiness of the gods. The start of the Old

Kingdom is said to be the building of the Djoser's monument. The

construction of Step Pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser began around 2630 B.C.

and was designed to awe the ancient Egyptians, to impress them with

their rule's godlike strength. It was the world's first great

construction project; indeed, it was the world's largest building.

adjoining mortuary temple and a sloping causeway temple near the Nile.

Facades called false doors through which the pharaoh's ka, or vital

completed, perhaps a cause of embarrassment or even horror among the

that a work of art, a building, had power and utility in the afterlife

droop of leafy plants. Immovable doors hung on great carved hinges.

ladder but an actual one, by which the soul of a dead ruler might

the pharaoh to look out perhaps at the stars in the northern sky

the facial features of King Khafre, but the body of a recumbent lion;

seeds of the collapse were planted in the soil of the civilization

filled two heavy jars from the canals, then hung them from a yoke over

scale. Instead the religious focus shifted from the pyramid itself

toward the mortuary temple that stood just east of it. The funerary

in direct proportion to its uselessness in the real world. In this

lies the Great Sphinx. Carved out of a knoll of rock, the Sphinx has

To the south of the Great Pyramid near Khafre's valley temple

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