What is in the middle of the desert was carved into the rock giant lion with a human head? For what was to build grand tombs, many times surpassing grandeur and luxury of the palaces of the rulers of living? What is the riddle of the Sphinx and Pyramids? There just was not made assumptions about it. 'Soldiers of forty centuries look down on you' – Napoleon Bonaparte said, bringing his army to the Egyptian pyramids. It was a powerful rhetorical move, and, most likely, he great boost morale of soldiers and the work went up (their self-surrender). But the soldiers reacted to the new age of forty centuries of history, without any respect and, just for fun, shot from the guns of the ancient Sphinx in For millennia, guarding the rooms of the dead. That is what happened to the opening of Europe's ancient Egyptian civilization.
Of course, for this country something that was known before. But it was only after Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, when the As the trophies were taken to France numerous antiquities, Egypt engaged in the study seriously. But back to the sphinx and pyramids. What is in the middle of the desert was carved into the rock giant lion with a human head? For which was to build grand tombs, many times surpassing grandeur and luxury palaces of the rulers of living? What is the riddle of the Sphinx and the pyramids? There just was not made assumptions about it. For example, what Egyptians – descendants of the ancient civilization of Atlantis.