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Article: SIMULATING THE PAST: Secrets of a lost world.
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- The Engineer
- Article date:
- May 7, 2007
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Engineering technologies more at home on the factory floor are helping to solve some of history's most enduring mysteries. Jon Excell reports
Of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one still standing. Built around 4,500 years ago to house the body of the fourth-dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Khufu (or Cheops), it stands testament to a lost world's technical expertise.
The 146m-high prism of about two million giant limestone slabs, many of them weighing up to 70 tonnes, has been the subject of almost unequalled analysis throughout the ages but the great structure is yet to yield up its biggest secret: how it was ...