Discovery Channel

I don't often watch documentaries. But I was looking at different Sabbath appropriate channels (Animal Planet, Discovery Channel....) and I came across an interesting show in the building of the pyramids in Eygpt. Maybe all of you history buffs know this already, but I didn't so I'm sharing.

Apparently the first pyramid was built because it was supposed to be a gateway to eternal life for the King. The Eygptions believed that a certain point in the sky that never moved, was Heaven because it was constant even though stars move around it. So they positioned the king so that he was high off the ground. There was a hole cut into the pyramid and I think even the coffin that was exactly the right angle to the point in the sky they believed was Heaven. And they believed that if their king went to Heaven, all of Egypt would be saved also.

Kindof interesting. The documentary ended with this thought.

The Great pyramids were built to answer the most important age-old questions of all time.
What happens to us when we die? And what do we do about it while we are alive?

Interesting....