Iconic Perspective
In addition to everything else, the Giza Pyramids are iconic and well-known around the world. Given its position as the largest structure in the complex, the Great Pyramid of Giza is undoubtedly the most well-known of the structures. The highest point on the planet for thousands of years was, in fact
Iconic Perspective
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
And it had only been a little more than a decade ago that the Great Pyramid of Giza had been thoroughly explored in a modern manner. In 1880, a British researcher named Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie led a team of researchers to accomplish this goal. Flinders Petrie was enchanted by the pyramid and later said of it, “The Great Pyramid has lent its name as a sort of by-word for paradoxes; and, as moths to a candle, so are theorizers attracted to it.”
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
