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Thursday, September 20, 2012
How the Great Pyramid Was Built
Imagine how this wondrous structure could have been built 4,000 years ago! Using modern engineering systems and project management concepts, we'll learn how it would have been possible to put 2.3 million blocks of limestone and granite - weighing several metric tons each - into place and examine the ways ancient Egyptian culture affected the design, labor and construction.
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