Looking up the northeast corner of the Great Pyramid, Egypt
Looking up the northeast corner of the Great Pyramid, Egypt “Here the vast mass has full sway over us; it overpowers and overwhelms us.… See how the great block dwindle and dwindle as the eye soars upward and follows them until they merge and melt into the mountainous bulk of the mass; and still it rises ever higher, to the distant peak where the Arab, waving his black garment, seems like a tiny insect.…" “Here is the very embodiment and potentiality of that ancient state of which the Pharaoh was the soul. Think of the organization of men and means, of force and skilled labor, required to quarry these 2,300,000 blocks, each weighing about two and a half tons, to transport them across the Nile and lift them to the rising courses of this ever-growing monster, till the capstone is 481 feet from the pavement. The base of the sea of stone which forms each face is 755 feet long, and the square which it forms on the ground includes a field of over thirteen acres. When you ha...