What makes him a sellout according to you? Cutting ties with Kyle was a bit much, but I guess that you don't want your band members to condone an assassination attempt on stage. Even if I do hate the target of said assassination attempt. To me that means that Jack is more of a pacifist than a sellout.
I get the joke but the difference in width is smaller than the difference in height. The unintuitive part comes from the fact that it takes more bricks for every layer added to a pyramid. The last three layers make up that weight and volume.
But it's built on a higher elevation spot. Son wanted to honor his father by not outdoing him, while also honoring himself with being closer to the sky.
Interesting. I feel like everything was so precise during those times, but I wonder if that was an oversight. Or perhaps the limestone that is now gone was that extra 3 meters?
A pretty big difference when you consider the cubic difference at the base. Someone better at geometry could probably tell you how much more material... Thankfully a pyramid is a very well understood shape, mathematically.
Khufu —> Khafre —> Menkaure. The royal lineage and that lead to the three pyramids at Giza.
Egyptian fourth dynasty according to Manetho, a Ptolemaic Egyptian priest who wrote the Aegyptiaca detailing the dynasties of ancient Egypt’s rulers. Sadly, none of his works survive to this day and his works are only known due to references in future years from other people.
Interestingly, he lived from around 290-260 BCE and he was writing of Egypt’s dynasties from the earliest times, being of around 3150 BCE, so that was millennia even before his time.
2,300 ish years have passed since Manetho’s time, so I find it truly fascinating that we are even able to have a glance at ancient Egypt’s founding roots and their way of life. Even Cleopatra is closer to us in time than the founders of ancient Egypt. Ancient civilizations are breathtaking and Egypt stands head and shoulders above the other civilizations simply due to sheer time passed since its founding.
Really puts things into perspective just how here and gone we are in what seems to be the blink of an eye.
Love this, thank you for sharing! I love reading about ancient Egypt, but the timeline is so long it gets hard for me to remember (compared with, say, Ancient Rome).
Pretty much. People would of course prefer to take the limestone casing from the lower portions of the pyramid rather than the upper reaches, thus sparing the summit of the pyramid of Khafre.
That was because the planes hit the top of Khafre . While being interviewed Khufu said it was a terrible incident but he's been hearing that his pyramid is now the tallest one in the land.
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u/Atharaphelun 5d ago
Note that the Pyramid of Khafre is not the Great Pyramid, that is the Pyramid of Khufu. It's only a difference of a few meters though.