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Excerpt from A History of Mourning
HE Egyptian Pyramids, which were included among the seven wonders or the world, are seventy in number, and are masses of stone or brick, with square bases and triangular sides. Although various opinions have prevailed as to their use, as that they were erected for astronomical purposes, for resisting the encroachment of the sand of the desert, for granaries, reservoirs.
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