The Mystery of Ancient Civilizations: How Did People Get So Smart?

http://guardians.net/egypt

About as all-inclusive as you can get in a website devoted to as broad a topic as ancient Egyptian culture. Great graphics, terrific discussion, links to everything from the official Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities to tour groups, online catalogs of Egyptian goods, and chat groups. If you visit one website on Egypt, this is the one.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/textindex.html

Website on ancient Egypt produced by PBS. Features an online interview with famed Egyptologist Mark Lehner and virtual tours of the pyramids at Giza.

http://www.catchpenny.org/

Larry Orcutt’s entertaining site exploring some of the supposed mysteries of ancient Egypt. “Mysteries of the Sphinx,” “Pyramid Enigmas,” pharaohs, and curses are explored here, all within the context of the application of the scientific method to the investigation of the Egypt of the pharaohs. Lots of fun and enormously informative.

http://khufu.3ds.com/introduction/

You can find a terrific computer-generated animation of the internal ramp hypothesis produced by Dassault Systemes.

National Geographic’s The Great Pyramid Mystery Solved presents architect Jean-Pierre Houdin’s internal ramp hypothesis, with help from Egyptologist Bob Brier, for the construction of Khufu’s pyramid. Fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws4O5LOCI68

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