« Who's your Dada? | Main | Performance Pointers! » Miracle in Giza Rebekah Miracle is blogging from Egypt, where she's working on the Giza Plateau Mapping Project, Mark Lehner's study explained in "Who Built the Pyramids", a 2003 Harvard Magazine article. Lehner's found evidence that the pyramids were built, not by slaves as we've come to believe via Hollywood epics, but by skilled workers who were treated like near-royalty. This archeological study appears to be a fascinating bit of analysis. Rebecca's blog is a ground-level account of the work as well as a bit of play, as in her latest post, which is about sneaking into the light show at the pyramids. [Link] ... we hid out in one of the tents until it got dark and then snuck back onto the Wall of Crow ninja-style, hiding from the camel-mounted security guards. While archaeologists are poor and cheap, mostly this was just done out of principle and because it is way more fun to do anything when it's illicit. So we crouched behind the rocks on the top of the wall and watched the show. Towards the end, the night-time call to prayer went out...and suddenly the usual five-times daily cacophony of competing prayer-callers (some better than others) was joined by the howling of the dogs that prowl the pyramids after dark. The call to prayers is eerie under any circumstances (Farrah thinks it sounds like something out of Night of the Living Dead), but especially so when you're laying under the stars, in the cold desert night air, giggling and hiding from the guards. jon posted this at 11:11 AM |
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