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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

scale of acres.’
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Of course, the jointing of the casing stones was by no means the only
‘almost impossible’ feature of the Great Pyramid. The alignments to true
north, south, east and west were ‘almost impossible’, so too were the
near- perfect ninety-degree corners, and the incredible symmetry of the
four enormous sides. And so were the engineering logistics of raising
millions of huge stones hundreds of feet in the air ...
Whoever they had been, therefore, the architects, engineers and
stonemasons who had designed and successfully built this stupendous
monument must indeed have ‘thought like men 100 feet tall’, as Jean-
François Champollion, the founder of modern Egyptology, had once
observed. He had seen clearly what generations of his successors were to
close their eyes to: that the pyramid builders could only have been men
of giant intellectual stature. Beside the Egyptians of old, he had added,
‘we in Europe are but Lilliputians.’
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Cited in Traveller’s Key to Ancient Egypt, p. 90.
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25 Ibid., p. 40. Champollion of course, deciphered the Rosetta Stone.

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