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With their help,
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the early pharaons built
more than a hundred
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pyramids-80 of which survive today.
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But what about the kings
who came later?
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You told me King Tutankhamon
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wasn't buried in a pyramid?
:19:36
No, he wasn't.
:19:37
They stopped building them.
:19:39
And for good reason.
:19:45
There were robbers who cared far
:19:48
more about heaps of gold
:19:49
than an eternal j ourney.
:19:53
The pyramids,
to these thieves,
:19:55
were like enormous
billboards saying,
:19:57
"We've buried the king in here
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and all his treasure with him."
:20:08
At any rate,
a new plan had to be devised.
:20:12
That's why 500 years after
:20:14
the last pyramids were built
:20:16
a new era of kings decided
:20:18
that instead of building tombs
:20:21
which everyone could see
:20:24
why not build tombs
which no one could see.
:20:35
Three hundred miles
south of the great pyramids
:20:38
across the Nile
from the modern city of Luxor
:20:42
is this barren maze of
valleys in the shadow
:20:44
of a natural pyramid.
:20:51
Here no thief could
find the royal tombs.
:20:56
Here the kings and queens of Egypt
:20:58
would remain immortal