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Who Really Built the Pyramids?

A surprising discovery lay buried in the sands near the Giza pyramids—a cemetery containing tombs of the workers.
By Zahi Hawass
048 049 History has not been kind to some of us. We typically refer, for instance, to the Great Pyramid of Giza, built by the Egyptian pharaoh Khufu during the Fourth Dynasty (c. 2575–2465 B.C...
Archaeology Odyssey, May/June 1999

Wish Upon a Stone

Discovering the idolatry of the even maskit
By Victor Hurowitz
Leviticus bans the Israelites from bowing upon a maskit stone. But what is a maskit? A recently deciphered Assyrian inscription may hold the key to identifying this mysterious prohibited object.
Bible Review, October 1999

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