--The Giza pyramid was constructed during the 4th dynasty, around 2550 BC -
more than two thousand years before Alexander the Great's invasion of Egypt
around 332 BC. Accession to power by Ptolemy 1, took place a decade later.
The Giza pyramid remained the tallest structure in the world for almost
four thousand years at 481 feet.Originally covered by limestone, it
took about twenty years to build, during the reign of Khufu, called Cheops
by the Greeks.
So why did the Egyptians and Nubians adopt the pyramidal
shape in their monumental constructions? This was a question
that a student asked me two weeks ago. I did not have a convincing
answer, so I consulted some resources and came across a few hypotheses,
subject to further assessment:
Adepoju has just added a third theory.
As for the West African tendency to construct a pyramidal shape
on a cylinder? I have no answer.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 1:17 PM
To: usaafricadialogue
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Woman and the Pyramid : Take a Break from the Mind Bending Puzzles of Nigerian Elections--The Woman and the Pyramid
Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju
This awesome pyramid in Egypt must have taken an unknown massive length of time, expense, people and energy to construct.
The biological form in the foreground took two people and nine months in gestation and about 30 years in growth after entry into the world to reach its present state of construction.
Which is more magnificent?
Why should they be seen as comparable in the first place given the huge differences in the time and human power taken by their proximate creative processes?
Or for the glorious human shape, should we look also to unknown aeons of prior development of the human form in evolutionary history?
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