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Archaeology: The wonder of the pyramids
Andrew Robinson
Published online
18 October 2017
In Giza and the Pyramids, veteran Egyptologists Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass cite an Arab proverb: “Man fears time, but time fears the pyramids.” It's a reminder that the great Egyptian complex on the Giza Plateau has endured for some four and a half millennia — the last monument standing of that classical-era must-see list, the Seven Wonders of the World.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v550/n7676/full/550330a.html