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To: gleeaikin

4000? I’m guessing you meant 400? The Giza pyramids were built about 2500 BC, the 1st IP was a few hundred years later, and the Exodus was about 1000 years after the 4th dyn Giza pyramids went up; in between time the Middle Kingdom pharaohs had large pyramids built — of mud brick — and what is left of them can still be seen, including this big one in the Fayyum:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawara


29 posted on 01/12/2010 7:22:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Actually, the problem is that I forgot to put a comma after “more than 4000 years ago,”. I meant before the First Intermediate Period, but NOT 4000 years before.


30 posted on 01/12/2010 8:14:26 PM PST by gleeaikin
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