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In what ways is the Great Pyramid different?

from the other seven wonders of the world?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It's the only one to survive time, weather, and human desecration...
The fact that it's been taught for many years, by the traditionalist Egyptology establishment, that it is the 'tomb of Khufu' is questionable, as it contains no identification or proof, via wall art, glyphs, etc. that anyone or anything was ever 'entombed' in this Akhet [ancient Egyptian 'Horizon', which was their name for the 'Great Pyramid....'pyramid' is a much later Greek name as is the 'Sphinx' name, which was contained in Greek mythic traditions. The ancient Egyptian name for the 'Sphinx' was 'Hru em Akhet' ...'Guardian/Hru ur (Greek 'Horus') of the Horizon'].......
Every tomb of the period in which Khufu was part, contains glyphs, wall art and/or artifacts telling information of whom it is that is entombed, except the Great 'Pyramid' on the Giza Plateau...
There was also a tradition in which several tombs were constructed as cenotaphs, but the actual burial was near the sacred city of Abdju [later Greek 'Abydos']...
This could have been one of the explanations, yet even then one would expect his name to have been prominent on the edifice...
Some historians of antiquity [Herodotus for one] stated he was told that at one time the pyramid was sheathed in shiny, smooth, pink marble with the ben ben [top] covered in electrum, [a mixture of gold and silver], which was a tradition for the tops of obelisks in several eras. Perhaps there were glyphs located on this sheathing...
Another hypothesis, which is considered by traditionalists as 'alternative archaeology' is that it was constructed by a more ancient civilization aprox. 10,000 yrs. ago, [rather than in the 5th Dyn. Old Kingdom]....
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