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them. There is still no unanimous opinion about how this gigantic pyramid was actually built. Both thieves and scientists have extensively searched for the pharaoh’s tomb buried inside the pyramid with, of course, different purposes. The mummy’s location still remains an open question even today.”
    Intrigued by this mystery, Michael glanced around at the remainder of the audience to determine if they were similarly intrigued. No one seemed to move. “For simplification’s sake,” the lecturer continued slowly. Michael quickly returned his concentration fully to the lecturer. “We shall focus on the mystery of the Great Pyramid and consider all the existing statements connected to it. John Taylor, the author of the 1859 book, The Great Pyramid , argued that the Greek numbers Pi and Phi may have been deliberately incorporated into the design of the Great Pyramid of Khufu as the Great Pyramid’s perimeter is close to two Pi times its height. Since its hypothesis, this theory in Pyramidology was supported as well as expanded upon by Charles Piazzi Smyth. Then, in 1880, an Egyptologist Professor, Sir William Flinders Petrie, and a British structural engineer, David Davidson, have added some key specifications to the studies of the aforementioned authors.”
    “Is it true that Khufu’s mummy was never buried inside the Great Pyramid?” A heavy-set man, sitting in the second row, suddenly interrupted the lecturer.
    The lecturer peered down through his thick eyeglasses at the man, visibly unhappy at being interrupted from his prescribed presentation. “As I said before, that is still unknown,” he said, switching to his next PowerPoint in dismissal. “The Great Pyramid has been considered one of the miracles of the world since the ancient times and has always been surrounded by a shroud of mysteriousness. When workers of Caliph Al-Mamun forced open an entrance into the pyramid in the search of treasures in the ninth century A.D., they found an intricate system of internal passages that interconnected the chambers.”
    “Was it true they found some human remains inside the Great Pyramid?” interjected the man from the second row, now sitting on the edge of his wooden seat.
    Pushing his large glasses up, the lecturer frowned and shuffled his notes. “I don’t have anything about that in my slides.” He sighed and continued in his grating monotone, pausing briefly from time to time to glance at the audience. “The system of seemingly incomprehensible tunnels and hollows inside the Great Pyramid became the new mystery. In order to solve that mystery, researchers proposed a number of hypotheses, beginning with the assumption that these tunnels were made by ancient tomb robbers. They then modified this view to hold the common consensus that these hollows, on the contrary, were traps for potential robbers.”
    “So, which one is right?” asked a young man with a goatee seated in the third row, his arm up slightly as if to respectful.
    “That is still debated,” said the lecturer sharply before clicking to his next PowerPoint. “There are two chambers inside the Great Pyramid. These are so-called the chambers of the King and the Queen, and they are located above the horizon. There is a third chamber located beneath the pyramid itself. In addition, there is a sarcophagus located within the King’s Chamber that presents a sequential mystery, as this sarcophagus could not have been brought into the chamber through the smaller entrance passages.”
    At this point, a whole series of questions were thrown at him. The lecturer grimaced as it became apparent that he would not be able to continue reading the remainder of his prepared PowerPoints. He stood quietly, waiting for the wave of them to end. However, the flow of the questions seemed endless and the lecturer had to knock several times on the microphone to bring the hall back to order. “Ladies and gentlemen, I need order in the auditorium.”
    The audience went