The Center Of The World

In many ways the center of the world is the Plain of Giza near Cairo in Egypt. In the early Nineteenth Century, Napoleon first brought the pyramids into the modern consciousness. The world was fascinated and the influence of those ancient monuments can be seen today all over the globe.

The pyramid is a significant shape and the Aztecs developed pyramids independently of the Egyptians. The pyramids were artificial mountains and set human beings further on the course of taking on and taming nature. The building of the pyramids contributed greatly to the development of geometry, engineering and astronomy because they were lined up by the star Sirius.

Is it only coincidence that Napoleon's Arc de Triomphe is in the same mold as the massive stone pyramids that have stood for thousands of years? How about that the Eiffel Tower resembles an industrial-era pyramid built in 1889 with wrought iron instead of stone? Big Ben also gives the impression of having some pyramid and obelisk influence in it.

Has anyone noticed the resemblance between New York City and Giza? Here, we have the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and, the Woolworth Building built by capitalist pharaohs who wanted to leave their monuments to generations far in the future. The positioning of those buildings relative to the Statue of Liberty strongly resembles the positioning of the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre and, Menkaure relative to the Sphinx. How about the resemblance between the presidential busts on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota and the pharaohs in stone at Abu Simbel?

The influence of the pyramids goes further than just obvious structural design. These pyramids, from far across time, put the nature of time into the consciousness of the world and helped lead to Einstein's Theories of Relativity, I believe. The obelisks that were painstakingly constructed helped put the idea into the world for skyscrapers.

The pyramids gave the world a much stronger sense of history. Those pharaohs had built a great ancient kingdom and left their mark across time. They were the ultimate kings for having done so. The next thing we know, the Nazis are talking of building a "Thousand Year Reich". The ancient Egyptians left an abundance of artwork showing daily life then and Hitler had a lot of films made of meetings and rallies no doubt for future generations to watch. 

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The ancient Romans, like so many others, imitated Egypt. A pyramid was built in Rome.

The obelisk in St. Peter's Square was brought from Egypt.

Another famous obelisk is in Place Concorde. Three obelisks were exported from Egypt in the Nineteenth Century, and are known as "Cleopatra's Needles", although they were from long before Cleopatra's time. One each went to the U.S., Britain and, France. The French one is in Place Concorde.

The one that went to the U.S. is in Central Park.

The one given to Britain is by the Thames River in London, and is guarded by replicas of the Sphinx.

The obelisk in London is also historical because the stone mounting of the obelisk has scars from shrapnel from one of the earliest air raids, during the First World War. I have seen these scars. 

Above the red dot in this image, scars are visible. The scars above the yellow dot are those in the above image.