Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Journey to Giza and the Nubian pyramids

Yes, we Lioness. I like the profile shot with you gazing into the Sphinx. Crisp editing with the flying-in intervals and clear pictures. With all those modern buildings, I was wondering if you will show any camels and then there they were.

Question is whether we can use the pyramids to teach critical thinking about the costs of funerals today. What if the costs of the pyramids were invested in building more schools and universities? Or is there a secret purpose for the pyramids other than tombs and the search for eternal life?

Biko

On Sunday, 3 March 2019, 12:32:27 GMT-5, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:

https://vimeo.com/233936826

Journey to Giza

Words cannot express my excitement when I visited the Giza pyramid

of Egypt.   This video  is one of the products of that visit.

My dream now  is to   capture on film, in person,

 the images  of some of  the pyramids of  Meroe.  

I  contemplate  going  from Ethiopia by bus, since numerous

buses leave from Gondar, Ethiopia, every day, and I visit Ethiopia frequently.

I have been to Gondar five times. We obviously  wouldn't be taking the short cut used

by  the Blue Nile from Lake Tana to the Sudan,😊 ............... but  the journey is not more

than  a day I am told.  On the border, on the road connecting Ethiopia with Sudan is

Gedarif, on the Sudanese side.

The Nubians constructed double the amount of  Egyptian pyramids.

These pyramids were not identical in structure and were constructed

at about 70 degrees. Note that the slope angle of the  Giza pyramid is about

 51 degrees. If the huge "mounds" at Kerma, in the Nubian region  were really

pyramids, initially, then  the Nubians were probably involved in pyramid

construction quite early. During the Meroitic era, however,  between 250BCE and 350CE,

approximately, pyramid construction was in full gear.

Pyramid construction is linked to quarrying, transportation and  employment and had

multiplier effects on various aspects of the economy. Workers on the pyramids had to be fed and

so the agricultural sector was also linked. Religion and politics  intersected

with the economy and technology. More work has to be done in that area of research.

Professor Gloria Emeagwali

Professor of History
 

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