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This authority was the Jewish philosopher Pheuth, who lived around the time of Christ."These learned Egyptians also taught Moses philosophy, which was conveyed by symbols called sacred calligraphy," he said. At the same time, some "men from neighboring countries" were sent to teach Moses "the Assyrian alphabet and astrology." .Moses also learned astrology from the Egyptians, who paid special attention to astrology. Moses was raised as the adopted son of the royal family, and for a long time he was seen as the heir to the Egyptian throne.I learned that this special status meant that Moses had received the true instruction in his youth, thoroughly mastered the oldest secrets known to the priests, mastered the mysteries of Egyptian magic-a knowledge not only (as Philo said ) included knowledge of the stars, but also witchcraft, divination, and other aspects of divination.

Clues in the "Ren Jing" can prove that the above situation is the historical truth, because it says that Moses "has the ability to speak and act" ("Acts of the Apostles" Chapter 7, Section 22). The famous scholar and linguist Sir E.A. Wallis Butch once made a pertinent judgment on this sentence.He believes that it is perhaps not a coincidence that this phrase is also used to describe Jesus Christ (see Luke 24:19), because it contains a hint of a code, namely The Hebrew prophet "speaks well" like the Egyptian goddess Essus. Although Moses thought he had no eloquence (Moses once said to God that he was "poor in speech and tongue", see "Old Testament Exodus" Chapter 4, Section 10-Translator's Note), this sentence implies that he must Possessing the ability to speak powerful words, "he knew how to pronounce them correctly, spoke them with perfect fluency, and delivered orders and spells with perfect perfection." (Wallis Butch: The Magic of the Egyptians, London ed., 1901, p. 5) Moses, therefore, like the goddess Essus, who is known for her mastery of every kind of witchcraft, possessed the gift of casting the most powerful spells.Therefore, the people around Moses respected him very much, because they undoubtedly believed that Moses could reverse reality, change the routine of things, and thus surpass the laws of physics.

I can find plenty of evidence from the Old Testament that this was indeed how Moses was viewed.Nevertheless, Moses' talent had a premise: his magic was said to be commanded throughout, and the only one who could command him was Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews. It is said that Moses first saw Yahweh in the wilderness near Midian.At that time, Moses killed an Egyptian overseer who was persecuting the Hebrew laborers because of his anger, and fled there to escape the revenge of the Egyptians.Judging from the known geographical clues, this wilderness is obviously in the south of the Sinai Peninsula, most likely under Mount Sinai (later, Moses got the "Ten Commandments" and the "blueprint" for making the Ark there).

No matter where it is, the Bible talks about "the mountain of God" after all, and says that when Moses came to the foot of the mountain, God "appeared to Moses from the flames in the bush. Moses watched, and behold, the bush was burned with fire, but it was not consumed " (see Chapter 3, Section 2).God told Moses to go back to Egypt and lead the Israelites out of slavery.But before Moses agreed to God's command, he asked the name of the strange and powerful being who spoke to him. This bold question itself reveals that Moses was a wizard, for as the great anthropologist James Fraser puts it in his study Goldsmiths:

Every magician in Egypt...believes one thing: possessing a real name, one possesses a god or human body, and can even compel a god to obey orders, just like a slave obeys a master.Therefore, the magician's method is to let the gods reveal their names, and for this reason, the magicians have tried their best and spared no effort. However, God did not directly answer the prophet's question.God just said a simple and mysterious word: "I AM WHO I AM (I AM WHO I AM)." God further explained: "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac the God of Jacob, the God of Jacob." (Chapter 3:6)

I discovered that the phrase "I AM I AM" (or "I AM I" according to various translations) is the root of the name "Yahweh" used in the Old Testament.This name was later mistaken for "Yehovah" in the King James Version of the Bible.However, in fact, this is not a name, but a taboo, roughly derived from the Hebrew verb "is (to exist)", its prototype is composed of four consonant letters, converted into Latin letters is "YHWH". These letters are considered by theologians to refer to the four letters of God, they only indicate "God's actual existence", thus still concealing God's true identity.Modern scholars, like Moses back then, are still ignorant of this identity.The mysteries of these four letters are so deep that no one today can even claim to know how to pronounce them.However, it is a generally accepted convention to insert the vowels a and e between these four consonants to form "Yahweh".

From the perspective of the "Bible", the significance of all this is that this god knew the name of Moses and could pronounce it; on the contrary, although Moses had inquired about God's name, God only told him a sacrificial incantation—— "I am who I am." Therefore, Moses was destined to answer God's questions and obey God's commands from then on; similarly, Moses' ability to predict the future all came from God's power, only from God, and had no other source. Understandably, later compilers of the Bible needed to express exactly this relationship between an almighty God and fallible humans.However, they could neither remove the evidence that Moses was indeed a magician, nor conceal the most convincing instance of Moses' magic, namely, that Moses quickly infected the Egyptians with plague in order to force Pharaoh to release the children of Israel .

Moses' half-brother Aaron, who always acted as Moses' proxy and spokesman, assisted him in performing these terrible miracles.Both Moses and Aaron had "rods," which were effectively magic wands used by magicians to cast spells.Moses' rod is often said to be "the rod of God" (see Chapter 4, Section 20, Chapter 17, Section 9).It first appears when Moses complains to God that neither Pharaoh nor the children of Israel believe he has divine guidance unless he can provide them with some kind of proof.God asked, "What is in your hand?" Moses replied, "It's a rod." So God told Moses to throw the rod on the ground, "so they will believe that God has appeared to you:

As soon as he (Moses) dropped it, (the rod) became a serpent, and Moses ran away.The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand and take its tail, and it will become a staff in your hand." Moses stretched out his hand and took it, and it became a staff in his hand. (Chapter 4, verses 3, 4, The King James Version of the Bible) This passage again emphasizes the primordial role of God, which is understandable.However, there is also something that cannot be ignored: this passage also emphasizes the connection between Moses and Egyptian magic and witchcraft. First, transforming an inanimate staff into a snake and back into a staff is a stunt often performed by ancient Egyptian magicians.Second, it is said that Egyptian priests have been able to control the actions of poisonous lizards since long ago.Finally, all magicians in Egypt had ivory wands, including Abaaner the Wise and Nectanebus, the sorcerer-king (cf. Wallis Butch: The Magic of the Egyptians, 1901 London ed., p. 5).This is equally important.According to this line of thinking, it is not surprising that Moses and Pharaoh's first contest of spells was almost a tie.

That contest was between Moses and Aaron on the one side and the priests in Pharaoh's court on the other.To frighten the Egyptian tyrant, Aaron threw down his staff, which, of course, turned into a snake as soon as it hit the ground.Pharaoh was not intimidated, and called his wise men and wizards, "They are the magicians of Egypt, and they practiced magic with magic. They each dropped their rods, and the rods became snakes." But A. Lun's rod, filled with the divine power of the Lord, swallowed up the rods of the wizards (chapter 7, verse 12). In the second bout, Moses and Aaron turned the water of the Nile into blood.Astonishing as this strategy was, Pharaoh was still unmoved, because "Egypt who practiced magic also practiced magic" (Chapter 7, verses 20-22).

Then, Moses and Aaron created a plague of mosquitoes, and Pharaoh's magicians did the same with magic (Chapter 8:1-7).However, the plague of mosquitoes created by Moses and Aaron ("lemon plague" in some translations, "lice plague" in others) greatly defeated Pharaoh's wizards-"The magicians also used their magic to produce lice , but could not. So there were lice on both man and beast. And the magician said to Pharaoh, This is the hand of God." (Chapter 8, Verses 16-19) The hard-hearted king still refused to free the Hebrew slaves.He was punished for this by a "plague of flies," and soon afterward a plague killed most of his livestock.Then Moses created a plague of boils (he threw a handful of ashes into the sky and created a plague of boils).Moses then used his wand to cause thunderbolts, hailstorms, a plague of locusts, and "darkness in Egypt" for three full days (see chapters 8-10).Finally, the Hebrew prophet managed to put to death "every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from Pharaoh who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of those who were in captivity in captivity" (p. 12, verses 23-30).Afterwards, "the Egyptians urged the people and sent them out of the land quickly, because the Egyptians said: We are all going to die." (Chapter 12:31-33) The Israelites began to escape from Egypt.They had a long and dangerous journey.A time full of magic.Meanwhile, they made the Ark of the Covenant at the foot of Mount Sinai.However, they could only reach Sinai by crossing the Red Sea first.So Moses once again demonstrated the power of his spell: Moses stretched out his staff over the sea, and the Lord sent a strong east wind, and the sea receded overnight, and the waters parted, and the sea became dry land.The Israelites went into the sea on dry land, and the water made a wall on their right and left. (Chapter 14, Sections 21 and 22) As anyone who has ever been to Sunday school remembers, the Egyptian pursuers followed the Israelites "down into the sea" and then: Moses stretched out his staff over the sea, and at dawn the waters were still restored.When the Egyptians entered the water and fled, the LORD threw them into the sea, and the water flowed back, drowning the chariots and horsemen, and there was not a single Pharaoh left in the whole army that followed the Israelites into the sea.But the Israelites walked on dry land in the sea, and the water made a wall on their right and left. (Chapter 14, Sections 27-29) It is conceivable that the "Bible" once again emphasizes the power of God: Although Moses stretched out to the sea several times, it was God who made the sea "receive" and "restore".However, I heard that the priests and magicians in Egypt were also said to be able to make sea and lake waters obey them, so I felt a little bit hard to accept this one-sided statement in the Bible. For example, an ancient document I have studied (Huesca Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian document discovered in 1824, which records the historical legends of the Old Kingdom of Egypt in 2000 BC, was discovered by the American linguist Helmut Verdonk translated into English——Translator's Note) records a story about the early fourth dynasty of ancient Egypt (about 1500 years before the era of Moses).It tells of a high priest (Kher Heb) named Chacha-em-Ankh in the court of Pharaoh Seneferu.One day, the pharaoh was on a boat on the lake, "accompanied by 20 young virgins, all with hair like clouds, beautiful figures, and slender limbs." One of the beauties dropped her most beloved bracelet into the lake and was very sad.However, the Pharaoh called the mage Chacha-em-Ankh: He chanted a mantra (hekau) that made the lake layer upon layer.He found the bracelet on a broken teapot at the bottom of the lake, picked it up and gave it to the girl.At this moment the lake was 12 cubits deep, but when Chacha-em-Anker laid one layer of water on top of the other, it was 24 cubits deep.The mage recited Wuyu again, and the lake returned to its original state, and became what it was before it was folded. (Butch: The Magic of the Egyptians, p. 10) This story, recorded in the Huesca Papyrus, deals with other, more trivial incidents, but I think that many of its points can only be regarded as strikingly similar to the "parting of the waters of the Red Sea."In my opinion, an extremely Egyptian.The ancient legends of magic show no doubt that Moses was a master of great miracles. I came to know this scholar by reading The Legend of Kings, translated by Sir E. A. Wallis Butch.Butch also served as curator of ancient Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum.Regarding the spells of Moses, he commented as follows: Moses was a master of magical ritual performances.He is also proficient in the knowledge of spells and spells related to it... (not only that) the miracles he performed... also show that: he is not only a priest, but a magician of the highest order, even a "Kher Heb" (High Priest). (Butch: "From Object Worship to God Belief", p. 8) Is it secret science? As a high priest of the Egyptian temple, Moses undoubtedly mastered a lot of knowledge of ancient Egyptian mysticism and the half-magic, half-religious "science" that was kept secret in the priesthood. I know that modern Egyptologists recognize the existence of such a knowledge.I also know that they know almost nothing about what this science consists of--it is vaguely mentioned in the inscriptions on the tombs of the senior monks in the temple, but there is almost no written record of it.Much of it is only possible to pass on orally among enlightened beings. However, academics believe that the rest of it has been destroyed intentionally or unintentionally.When the fire engulfed the library of Alexandria, who knows how many scholarly treasures were destroyed?By the 2nd century BC, the Library of Alexandria was known for its collection of at least 200,000 scrolls and manuscripts. One thing, however, is beyond speculation—as Herodotus noted in the 5th century BC: "Egypt has more wonders than any other country in the world, and there are more books in Egypt than anywhere else in the world." This well-traveled historian of ancient Greece was accomplished throughout his life, and his books are still in print today.He made a correct assessment of the ancient Egyptians, saying that they were "the first human beings who invented the year and divided it into 12 parts." Herodotus also said that he had studied the magical mysteries of the Egyptian priests, but He quickly added that he could not (or would not) disclose the results of his research.This really makes me feel helpless. Herodotus visited Egypt and left it with the definite impression that there were indeed hidden secrets, and that these secrets were not mere religious red tape and mystification.Herodotus was neither the first nor the last to have this experience. The ancient culture of Egypt first achieved greatness by applying some advanced (but now lost) scientific knowledge.Indeed, I have found that this is one of the most enduring and pervasive ideas in human history--an idea that appeals as much to the impatient geek as it does to the sober scholar.It has also sparked countless debates, criticisms, wild speculations, and serious examinations. What's more, this concept directly impacts my investigation work, because it leads to a fascinating possibility: Moses, as a magician who was proficient in the "sacred science" of Egypt, could not have mastered more knowledge and technology than what has been discovered so far by archaeologists? Do scientists admit more?Wouldn't he use this knowledge and technology to make the Ark of the Covenant? This hypothesis deserves further investigation.But I soon discovered that there were as many questions about what the ancient Egyptians achieved technologically as there were answers about it. Please pay attention to more updated free e-books Please pay attention to more updated free e-books We know, for example, that the ancient Egyptians were brilliant metalworkers—their gold jewelry was particularly exquisite, showing a level of craftsmanship that few later generations can match. It's also worth noting: From the earliest times, the copper tools of the ancient Egyptians had edges so hard they could cut even schist and the hardest limestone.I learned that modern blacksmiths would not be able to forge such hard copper tools.Likewise, it was also thought that any 'lost craft' contained knowledge that concerned not so much the manufacture of tools as the way stonemasons used them in situ. After studying many extant hieroglyphic and papyrus documents, I have no doubt that the ancient Egyptians were (at least) intermediate mathematicians in the modern sense.They used the smallest whole number fractions and seem to have invented a special form of elementary calculus that allowed them to calculate the volume of complex objects.They probably knew how to use transcendental numbers more than 2,000 years before the ancient Greeks.Find the circumference from the diameter of any circle. The astronomical observation of the ancient Egyptians is another field in which they achieved a significant leading position very early.Livio Staccini, a professor of history of science in the United States and an expert in ancient metrology, once said: "The ancient Egyptian priests began to use astronomical techniques as early as 2200 BC, which enabled them to calculate the length of a degree of latitude and longitude. Errors of a few hundredths of an inch. No other civilization has achieved this for almost 4,000 years." The ancient Egyptians were also proficient in medicine: their surgeons could perform difficult operations; their knowledge of the human nervous system was also very complete; their pharmacopoeia contained records of the first use of several famous drugs. I have found much further evidence that the Egyptians were in a relatively advanced state of knowledge when the Europeans were still barbaric.But in my opinion, there is no source to suggest that there was any science in ancient Egypt that can be regarded as truly amazing today; nor is there any branch of ancient Egyptian technological achievements. degree of energy.Nevertheless, as I have already said, it is firmly believed that the ancient Egyptians were indeed guarding a "great secret knowledge".This belief is so widespread that it is almost unpublished. It is clear to me that such a fervent conviction springs not so much from a rational weighing of empirical facts as from an unconscious desire to glorify the human past.This is of course the view of the majority of members of the orthodox archaeological establishment, many of whom dismiss the "great secret lore" as nonsense.They declared that in more than a century of painstaking excavations and detailed investigations, nothing remarkable about Egypt had been discovered. Inquisitive and practical as I am by nature, I must confess: I have made several research trips to this beautiful and ancient land of Egypt, and the practical evidence I have seen everywhere has convinced me that academia has not answered the question. All the questions, and many more to be answered.The study of certain aspects of the achievements of the ancient Egyptians is woefully backward simply because they lie outside the bounds of traditional archaeology, and perhaps every other accepted form of scholarly inquiry. Three monuments in Egypt left a deep impression on me: one is the Karnak temple complex, the other is the "stepped" pyramid of Pharaoh Zoz in Saqqara, and the other is the Cairo suburb. Great Pyramid of Giza.These majestic stone buildings exemplify a special allure of raw strength, subtle elegance, grandeur, mystery and timelessness. This effect, I think, comes from their use of a highly developed advanced knowledge of harmony and proportion.There is every reason to say that this knowledge has developed into a science.It's a science that combines engineering, architecture, and design, and it's brilliant by any standard.In its ability to evoke religious awe, no architectural achievement has ever surpassed that of this ancient Egyptian science; It's on par. Is this just a coincidence?Is it pure coincidence that Egyptian monuments and Gothic cathedrals have a similar effect?Will there be some connection between the two? I've long believed that there was indeed a connection between the two, and that the Templars, through their discoveries during the Crusades, might have filled in a missing link in the chain of transmission of secret architectural knowledge . In the Temple of Karnak, I walked slowly through those mirage-like tower gates, entered the "Great Court", and passed the tall stone pillars lined up in the "Hall of Many Columns", I couldn't help thinking that the protector of the Knights Templar, the gram St. Bernard of Lever once defined God as "length, breadth, height, and depth"—astonishing indeed for a Christian to say so.Nor can I forget that the Templars themselves were superb architectural engineers and architects, and that the Cistercian Order, to which St. Bernard belonged, also excelled in this special field of human achievement. However, centuries and civilizations before their existence, the ancient Egyptians were already the first-rate masters in the science of architecture.They were the first and still are the greatest stone builders in the world.Not only that, but the monuments they left behind are indescribable and timeless.Typical examples of this are the two tall obelisks dominating the temple complex of Karnak. When I visited that temple, they were of particular interest to me.I found that one of them was erected by Tuthmosis I (1504 BC-1492 BC) and the other by Queen Hatshepsut (1473 BC-1492 BC). 1458) erected.Both obelisks are perfect monolithic steles, carved from the same pink granite slab, the former one is 70 feet high and weighs about 143 tons; the latter one is 97 feet high and weighs about 320 tons. A few minutes further south from here, I found a third obelisk, beneath a holy lake where the temple's priests performed intricate purification ceremonies.The stele has collapsed and broken, but the upper 30 feet of it are still intact, with a pointed tower-cone top.Following the instructions in the guidebook I carried with me, I stepped into the protective rope around the collapsed stele and put my ear on the top of the stele.Then, beating the granite stone with my palms, I listened, fascinated: the whole boulder resounded with deep bass sounds, like a strange and huge instrument. I don't think this phenomenon is accidental.On the contrary, to make such an exquisite single-body stele (and the same visual effect can be created by simply stacking cement blocks together), it requires extremely careful and superb technology, and only the ancient Egyptians wanted to make a whole giant stone. Some kind of special quality makes sense for them to do so. In any case, the motives for erecting these elegant and impeccable steles were far from purely aesthetic.I learned that these obelisks were not made locally, but were brought by water from granite quarries.That quarry is more than 200 kilometers south of here. The Nile is a highway both wide and deep.So it's a reasonable assumption to make: Once the obelisks were loaded onto barges, it wouldn't be too difficult to get them adrift downstream.But what I think is even more difficult to understand is: How did the ancient Egyptians put these three huge stone needles on the barge and unload them at their destination? A monolithic boulder remains in the quarry, only half-hewn from the bedrock, because it broke before it was finished.But if it is completed, it will be an obelisk 137 feet tall with a base nearly 14 feet thick. Obviously, this 1,168-ton behemoth was originally to be transported somewhere to be erected, so there is a problem that is extremely difficult to explain exactly: (Archaeologists believe) the ancient Egyptians even had a simple winch pulley None of the systems, how are they going to do the job?I know that it would have exhausted a team of modern construction engineers equipped with the most complex and powerful machinery just to move such a huge block of stone a few hundred feet, let alone transport it hundreds of kilometers away up. What is also puzzling is: After these monolithic boulders were transported to the Karnak Temple, how did the ancient Egyptians set them up on the base so accurately? In one temple there is a relief showing the pharaoh erecting an obelisk using only a single rope.It is very common to have rulers in relief pose in heroic poses.The relief may have been intended only to represent a labor process symbolically, but the reality of the work consisted of hundreds of trained laborers pulling many ropes.However, I still think their method is more than just pulling with a rope. Veteran archaeologist John Anthony West believes that the pharaohs and priests had a prior grasp of a principle known as "Maat", which is often translated as "balance".He pointed out that this principle may be applied to some practical fields, "the ancient Egyptians understood and used a mechanical balance technology that we do not know."This technique allowed them to "manipulate these massive blocks with ease and precision . Travel Handbook, London 1987, p. 109). If these obelisks often appear to be the product of a technology almost beyond the reach of human beings, I have to admit that the Egyptian pyramids are superior in every respect.The founder of modern Egyptology, Jean-François Chamborlian (1790-1832, French Egyptologist, who once deciphered the hieroglyphics of the pyramid scrolls——Translator’s Note) once said: "The ancient Egyptians were like hundred-foot giants. thinking, while we Europeans are just Lilliputians." The first time I walked into the Great Pyramid of Giza, I did feel like a Lilliputian—small and terrified.What frightens me is not only the volume and size of this stone mountain, but also the almost palpable sense of heaviness accumulated by history. The last time I was in the Great Pyramid, I only saw the outside of the building, because I didn't want to join the throngs of tourists that were pouring inside.However, on the morning of April 27th, 199o, I managed to bribe the caretaker with a little bribe and entered this magnificent building alone.A couple of strings of low-wattage light bulbs glowed dimly, and I ducked as hard as I could to avoid bumping head-on into the rocks. I climbed up 129 feet along the stairs, and passed through the relatively spacious and 157-foot-long "Grand Corridor", and finally came to the so-called "King's Tomb".It is a rectangular hall with a length to width ratio of 2:1. Its floor is 34 feet 4 inches long and 17 feet 2 inches wide.The dome of the hall is located in the very center of the Great Pyramid and is supported by 9 single-body granite pillars, each weighing about 50 tons. I can't remember how long I was there.The air there was musty and warm, like the breath of some great beast.There was a dead silence all around me, a silence that seemed to surround everything deeply and without end. Then, for a reason I cannot explain, I came to the center of the hall floor, and uttered a sustained low-pitched cry that sounded like the song of the fallen obelisk at the temple of Karnak.The walls and the dome seemed to gather up my shouts, gather them together, amplify them, and throw them back at me, causing a recurring tremor in my feet, head, and skin.I was electrocuted, I felt energized, excited and calm, as if I was about to have a revelation that was both immensely important and absolutely inevitable. After visiting the Great Pyramids of Giza in 1990, I was so impressed that I spent several weeks researching its history.I learned that the Great Pyramid was built around 2550 BC for Pharaoh Khufu (or Cheops)—the second pharaoh of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty—and it is also the largest man-made pyramid in the world. stone building. Archaeologists generally believe that the purpose of building this pyramid is only as a mausoleum.But this inference struck me as utterly incomprehensible—for no mummies of pharaohs were ever found in it, only a poor, undecorated coffin in the so-called "King's Chamber" (and, 9 A.D. When Kerif al-Mam, an Arab who ruled Egypt in the 19th century, led a team of diggers to open the coffin for the first time, the coffin was still empty). As I researched the subject further, it became clear to me that the real purpose of the Great Pyramid was actually a matter of much debate.On one side of the debate are some of the most orthodox, most down-to-earth scholars.They believe that the Great Pyramid is merely a mausoleum.On the other side are some so-called "pyramidists", who are followers of the Apocalypse.They believed that every tiny part of this vast pyramid was some kind of prophecy and symbol. The stupidity of this latter school can probably be summed up in the words of an American critic.Putting the numbers together, he points out, proves almost everything: "The number of street lamps in Bond Street, or the specific gravity of mud, if a proper unit of measurement is used." , or the average weight of an adult goldfish, must be exactly equal to the distance from London to Timbuktu." This comment is of course quite correct.Still, I can see that some of the surprising features that pyramidists focus on are less likely to be coincidences.For example, the line of longitude and latitude that crosses the Great Pyramid (30°N, 31°E) does pass through more dry land than the other lines of longitude and latitude.This suggests that the Great Pyramid was at the center of the habitable area.Similarly, if a north-facing quadrant (i.e., a 1/4 circle in the shape of a cake slice) is drawn on the map with its axis at the Great Pyramid, then this quadrant would encompass the entire Nile Delta.Also, all the pyramids at Giza are aligned with the four cardinal directions (east, west, north, south).I find it extremely difficult to account for the fact that the ancient Egyptians had achieved this particular geodetic achievement so long before the accepted date of the invention of the compass. What interests me most about the Great Pyramid, however, is entirely its size and horizon.It covers an area of ​​13.1 acres, and I also learned that at least 2.3 million limestone boulders were used for its core construction, each weighing about 2.5 tons.It was an Egyptian priest who provided information to Herodotus back then. He once said that it took 100,000 laborers 20 years to build the Great Pyramid (they only worked during the three-month slack period of the year). Construction techniques included "short pieces of wood as levers" that were used to lift those boulders from the ground. None of the later generations of researchers could have guessed what these "levers" looked like, and how the ancient Egyptians used them.However, Bugard-Hansen, a civil engineer at the Danish Institute of Engineering, once made a calculation: In addition to clearing the site, quarrying, leveling the ground and other necessary work, 4,000 boulders must be piled up every day, that is, every minute It takes 6.67 huge stones to build the Great Pyramid in 20 years.He concluded: "In conclusion, I think it is necessary to bring together Cyrus the Great (559-529 BC, King of the Persian Empire--Translator's Note), Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon and Wellington ( 1769-1852, the genius of the British general who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815—Translator's Note) must be properly deployed to organize an army capable of carrying out such a project." I later learned that some Japanese engineers had recently attempted to build a replica of the Great Pyramid, 35 feet tall (much smaller than the Great Pyramid, which was 481 feet 5 inches tall).They only use techniques from the Fourth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt that have been verified by archaeologists.It turned out that it was completely impossible to build a replica of the Great Pyramid under such constraints.So they brought modern earth movers, quarry machines and lifts to the construction site.But the project still hasn't made much progress.In the end, they had to abandon the plan in embarrassment. In conclusion, what the Great Pyramid (along with its many mysteries and mysteries) taught me is that the ancient Egyptians were anything but "tech-savvy ancients" as they are often portrayed, and that they must have possessed a special kind of scientific knowledge .If this is the case, then it is quite possible that the terrible power of the Ark was the product of that science, and Moses was probably the best in practicing that science.