Saturday, April 30, 2022

Gold-capped, polished-white Egypt pyramids

Smithsonian Institute video via openculture.com, Dec. 2019; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

The capital of California with pyramid
The Great Pyramid at Giza — the oldest and most intact of the seven ancient wonders of the ancient world [because the wonders of the Americas were unknown, including the larger Mexican Pyramid of Cholula] — became a potent symbol of the sublime in the 19th century, a symbol of power so absolute as to eclipse human understanding. After Napoleon’s first expedition to Giza, “Egyptomania…swept through European culture and influenced the plastic arts, fashion, and design,” writes Miroslav Verner in The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt’s Great MonumentsMore

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