The Romans loved the ancient Egyptians too. But the great irony of our interest in the Romans is that builders of the Pyramids were more distant in time to the Romans than the Romans are to us.
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Thanks! I’d never heard of this before (I know you are surprised).
The Wiki link is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Cestius