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Posted on 2/8/16 at 9:30 am to LSUSUPERSTAR
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I don't know where that statement originated, but it is false.
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One of the earliest known references to this myth appears in a letter written in 1754 by the English antiquary William Stukeley. Stukeley wrote that, "This mighty wall of four score miles [130 km] in length is only exceeded by the Chinese Wall, which makes a considerable figure upon the terrestrial globe, and may be discerned at the Moon."[
Dammit Will!
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The apparent width of the Great Wall from the Moon is the same as that of a human hair viewed from 3 km (2 mi) away. To see the wall from the Moon would require spatial resolution 17,000 times better than normal (20/20) vision.[63] Unsurprisingly, no lunar astronaut has ever claimed to have
Posted on 2/8/16 at 9:34 am to List Eater
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Both were built by slaves but I don't hear anyone trying to take them down. Now that's impressive.
I don't know about the wall, but many scholars dispute that the Pyramids were built with slave labor.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 9:37 am to Hoyt
The Pyramid of Khufu at Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence.
Suck on that, Wall.
Suck on that, Wall.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 9:39 am to List Eater
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Both were built by slaves but I don't hear anyone trying to take them down. Now that's impressive.
What slaves built the pyramids?
Posted on 2/8/16 at 9:45 am to Hester Carries
Have you ever seen The Prince of Egypt?
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Posted on 2/8/16 at 9:51 am to Jobu93
quote:quit perpetuating myths. I've been to the moon. I could not see the Wall.
Only man made object to be seen from space.
The Wall is the correct answer bc it's so long. The pyramids aren't that big of a deal.
If the Great Wall were in the US, it'd be torn down since it was built by slaves. I'm not sure if sjw are offended by everything related to slavery or just everything related to black slavery.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 10:07 am to airfernando
To this day, no one knows the type of mortar they used on the Pyramids, or where it came from. That's freaking crazy!
Posted on 2/8/16 at 10:08 am to List Eater
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Have you ever seen The Prince of Egypt?
Posted on 2/8/16 at 10:12 am to Hoyt
The pyramids. Most people do not realize they were built 4000 years ago. 4000 years ago by a dynasty that we know little about. This was well before the Egyptians we know of, like Cleo and Tutu, etc. by a few thousand years.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 10:48 am to Hoyt
Pyramid
The fact that we can't build one that precise today should tell you a lot.
The fact that we can't build one that precise today should tell you a lot.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 10:49 am to Hoyt
The Pyramids, which are made of massive cut stones, placed meticulously to form a huge, complex shape.
The Great Wall is linear, and much of it is rammed earth layered with stone or brick. It's a much simpler method. Not as impressive, regardless of its size.
The Great Wall is linear, and much of it is rammed earth layered with stone or brick. It's a much simpler method. Not as impressive, regardless of its size.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 10:58 am to Hoyt
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More Impressive: Egyptian Pyramids or Great Wall of China
I have to got with The Pyramids. In my non-engineer opinion, the pyramids took more advanced engineering/architectural expertise to build than the Great Wall. But no doubt the sheer length of the Great Wall is more impressive and took more time and manpower to build.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:01 am to Hoyt
pyramids, tryly and engineering marvel and hard to copy with today's tech. The wall is great, but it's just a big wall.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:02 am to Tigeralum2008
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Pyramids now, Great Wall in 20 years when China gets its air pollution under control. That's my plan anyways
I'd take my chances with the pollution over whatever is going on in Egypt right now.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:05 am to Hoyt
The Great Wall would be more impressive if the Chinese had gotten the Mongolians to pay for it.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:28 am to PsychTiger
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The Great Wall would be more impressive if the Chinese had gotten the Mongolians to pay for it.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:28 am to Hoyt
I think the wall. I've been to China and it was probably built by the little tiny ancestors of the little tiny people that make up the majority of the population now.
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:34 am to Hoyt
Posted on 2/8/16 at 11:53 am to List Eater
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Both were built by slaves
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Redding's faunal evidence dealt a serious blow to the Hollywood version of pyramid building, with Charlton Heston as Moses intoning, "Pharaoh, let my people go!" There were slaves in Egypt, says Lehner, but the discovery that pyramid workers were fed like royalty buttresses other evidence that they were not slaves at all, at least in the modern sense of the word. Harvard's George Reisner found workers' graffiti early in the twentieth century that revealed that the pyramid builders were organized into labor units with names like "Friends of Khufu" or "Drunkards of Menkaure." Within these units were five divisions (their roles still unknown)—the same groupings, according to papyrus scrolls of a later period, that served in the pyramid temples. We do know, Lehner says, that service in these temples was rendered by a special class of people on a rotating basis determined by those five divisions. Many Egyptologists therefore subscribe to the hypothesis that the pyramids were also built by a rotating labor force in a modular, team-based kind of organization.
Who Built the Pyramids
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