DOC My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience by Mary A. Livermore in History

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The Egyptologist acclaimed for re-dating the Great Sphinx at Giza sets his sights on one of the true mysteries of antiquity: the Great Pyramid of Giza. What is the Great Pyramid of Giza? Ask that basic question of a traditional Egyptologist; and you get the basic; traditional answer: a fancy tombstone for a self-important pharaoh of the Old Kingdom. This; Egyptologists argue; is the sole finding based on the data; and the only deduction supported by science. By implication; anyone who dissents from this point of view is unscientific and woolly-minded-a believer in magic and ghosts. Indeed; some of the unconventional ideas about the Great Pyramid do have a spectacularly fabulous ring to them. Yet from beneath the obvious terms of this controversy; a deeper; more significant question arises: how is it that the Great Pyramid exercises such a gripping hold on the human psyche- adding cryptic grace to the back of the one-dollar bill and framing myriad claims of New Age "pyramid power"? In Pyramid Quest; Robert M. Schoch and Robert Aquinas McNally use the rigorous intellectual analysis of scientific inquiry to investigate what we know about the Great Pyramid; and develop a stunning hypothesis: This ancient monument is the strongest proof yet that civilization began thousands of years earlier than is generally thought; extending far back into a little-known time. In tracing that story; we come to understand not only the Great Pyramid but also our own origins as civilized beings.