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Big History S1E5 — Megastructures
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Big History•Season 1•Episode 5

Megastructures

6.7/10 · 25 votesNov 16, 201322 min

Ranked #4 of 17 in Season 1•+0.2 vs season avg

Discussion

From the Great Pyramid at Giza to the towering skyscrapers of today, humans have engineered massive constructions for at least 5,000 years. But why? How do biology and human emotions affect our desire to build gigantic structures? Why were the earliest mega-structures almost always pyramids?