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Rebuilding granite blocks around pyramid ‘as absurd as straightening the Tower of Pisa’

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Rebuilding granite blocks around pyramid ‘as absurd as straightening the Tower of Pisa’

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Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 9 months ago

Egyptologists question the need to recreate cladding in Giza restoration project and say structure should be preserved as it is today

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Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

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