00:00It was not merely a tomb. The Egyptians called it Akhet Khufu, the horizon of Khufu, and scholars have called
00:08the pyramids resurrection machines.
00:10In life, the pharaoh was the living god, Horus. In death, he became Osiris, lord of the dead, and his
00:18soul was expected to ascend into the sky, join the imperishable stars that never set, and board the solar bark
00:25of the sun, God Ra.
00:26The pyramid's very shape echoes the rays of the sun falling to earth, a staircase for the king's soul.
00:33So when modern science found an unexplained hollow space inside this machine for resurrection, the question was...