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Any truth to this? Napoleon spent a night in the Great Pyramid "on his deathbed a close friend asked him to reveal what had transpired inside the King’s Chamber. Napoleon was about to tell him, then he changed his mind. He just shook his head and said: “No, what’s the use. You’d never believe me."

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Is it true that "two hundred years after the last pyramid was reared in their country, Egyptians were as baffled by the big masonries as everyone else?" In other words, did they forget how to build the pyramids? How/why?

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Any truth to this? Napoleon spent a night in the Great Pyramid "on his deathbed a close friend asked him to reveal what had transpired inside the King’s Chamber. Napoleon was about to tell him, then he changed his mind. He just shook his head and said: “No, what’s the use. You’d never believe me."	298
Is it true that "two hundred years after the last pyramid was reared in their country, Egyptians were as baffled by the big masonries as everyone else?" In other words, did they forget how to build the pyramids? How/why?	114