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without modern machinery?
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The gods certainly didn't do it.
:16:04
They used their minds.
:16:07
Knowledge built these great
great structures.
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Highly sophisticated knowledge.
:16:12
Look.
:16:19
All of the Giza pyramids are built
:16:22
in perfect alignment
with certain stars.
:16:25
That takes a knowledge
of astronomy.
:16:30
The pyramids' foundations are laid out
:16:33
in perfect angles
and dimensions,
:16:35
precisely correct for the height
:16:38
they wanted to reach.
:16:39
Now that takes
knowledge of geometry
:16:42
and mathematics.
:16:44
And finally,
:16:45
you must get these big stones
:16:46
from down here to up there
:16:48
and you must make them
all fit perfectly.
:16:53
Now that takes knowledge
:16:55
an incredible knowledge of
:16:56
engineering and organization.
:16:59
Organization?
:17:00
Absolutely.
:17:02
You just said so yourself.
:17:04
It wasn't the gods who built
:17:06
these great monuments.
:17:07
It was people.
:17:09
Thousands and thousands of people.
:17:20
Imagine being one of
these people
:17:22
Iiving in a tiny village
:17:24
more than 4,000 years ago.
:17:26
Life would be pretty much
:17:28
the same day in
and day out-farming,
:17:30
herding cattle
fishing in the Nile.
:17:35
Then one day,
:17:37
you're selected to journey
:17:38
by boat down the Nile.
:17:41
You're now part of
:17:42
the great national project
:17:43
to build the pharaon's tomb.
:17:47
But you have no idea
what kind of tomb!
:17:51
And then you see a monument
:17:55
to the sun to life eternal.