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"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the planet. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardians of the treasures, nevertheless they belong to the planet." (Zahi Hawass, Egyptologist) The pyramids of Egypt are such recognizable symbols of antiquity that for millennia, people have made assumptions about what they are and why they are present without full awareness of the various meanings these historical symbolic structures experienced over the generations. Generations have seen them as symbols of your lost past, which in turn is often portrayed as a global full of love and enigma. This verbal meaning has become from the constructions through the travel and leisure industry, where intrigue naturally boosts solution sales. In fact the Egyptian pyramids are so old that these were also drawing vacationers in historical times. In antiquity the Great Pyramid of Giza was shown as one of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World, and it is the only person still surviving today. This and structural integrity of the pyramids also make them symbols of longevity and electric power, which is only fitted because those are two purposes the historical pharaohs who commissioned these works supposed them to serve. For the pharaohs, the building of the large monuments shown an opportunity to allow them to showcase their effect and become something to be appreciated by, both in the modern culture they ruled and in the annals of history that would follow. Even while new dynasties came and travelled, and even while Egypt was subjected to foreign domination and rulers from across the world, the pyramids have continued to stand as a prominent testament to Old Egypt's glorious past.

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