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Ancient Egyptian beliefs and how they affected the construction of the pyramids
As the narrator explains the Ancient Egyptian beliefs in the Sun God, a reconstruction of a pharaoh and her soldiers is seen in the Egyptian desert. The pyramids were built so the Sun God could be reborn in the afterlife, as explained on the pyramid texts. The Egyptians believed the unchanging position of the stars was the location of the afterlife, which determined the way they constructed the Great Pyramid.
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