Iconic Perspective
Apart from everything else, the Giza Pyramids are iconic and well-known around the world. The Great Pyramid of Giza, as the largest structure in the site, is certainly the most well-known of the structures. For thousands of years, the highest peak on the earth was, in reality,
Iconic Perspective
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
And the Great Pyramid of Giza had only been properly studied in a modern fashion a little more than a decade before. Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, a British researcher, led a team of researchers to fulfill this goal in 1880. The Great Pyramid charmed Flinders Petrie, who later stated, “The Great Pyramid has lent its name as a sort of by-word for paradoxes; and, as moths to a candle, so theorizers are attracted to it.”
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie