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Go to the pyramids at Giza today, and you’ll see pollution blackened steppes surrounded by smog and sand. Some 4,000 years ago, the pyramids looked much nicer: They were covered in polished limestone, resembling brilliant lightforms dropped into the desert from the sky.

In this short documentary put together by the Smithsonian Channel, Harvard UniversityEgyptologist Jacquelyn Williamson walks us through the process in which huge blocks of limestone were carved and polished down by hand to seamlessly fit together, forming a protective outer shell on each pyramid.

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