February
05
/ 2020
Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza were always my favorite ancient mystery growing up. I was forever debating whether they were high-tech super machines or massive tombs of the pharaohs. Their odd angled passageways, stacked chambers, and precision engineering suggested a machine-like nature, and I used to dream of them emitting lasers, radio waves, fire blasts, lightning discharges, or water fountains. Their mystery only deepened in 2017, when muon and thermal scanning of the Great Pyramid revealed several lost chambers still to be excavated ( scanpyramids.org). With the eyes of the world once again focused on Egypt, I asked myself: what really were the pyramids – sophisticated secret machines or symbolic stone sepulchers? Did Pharaohs Dream of Electric Pyramids? The Greek name
