The Golden Era of Egypt's Pyramids
A History of Mankind (17)
By the time the Cuicuilco pyramid rose, Egyptian pharaohs had long stopped building theirs. After Djoser started the fashion for funerary grandiosity, circa 2650 BC, mummification reached unparalleled levels of efficiency in Egypt, driving a taste for luxurious preparations for the afterlife: for the first time, experts removed the body’s soft internal …
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