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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2515790, member: 19463&quot;]Is it reasonable to guess the Giza pyramids might have been an embarrassment to later rulers who would have been unable to match them or figure a way to claim them for themselves?&nbsp; Putting them on a coin would be like saying, &quot;Once there was a powerful ruler who made things like these pyramids but now all you have is me.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Caligula ordered some statues beheaded and refaced with his features.&nbsp; Imagine what he could have done with the Sphinx.&nbsp; Perhaps there was so little traffic out there in the desert that it was not worth the effort.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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