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Jiang clarifies that stopping pyramid construction was not the end of Egypt: the civilization continued for roughly 2,000 years, remained powerful, and later Middle and New Kingdom periods had their own glory.
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Jiang clarifies that stopping pyramid construction was not the end of Egypt: the civilization continued for roughly 2,000 years, remained powerful, and later Middle and New Kingdom periods had their own glory.
"...the hegemon of the Western world. Okay? So this is the Old Kingdom. That's what they... The Old Kingdom focused on building the pyramids,..."
"...the 4.2 kiloyear event brought basically an end to the Egypt Old Kingdom. Right? It also brought an end to what we call the..."
"...that this is the end of Egypt. It's not. After the Old Kingdom, after they stopped building the pyramids, you will have a new..."
A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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