 What is the Great Pyramid? No one really knows. The Great Pyramid at Giza has remained a complete mystery in modern times. When was it built? Who built it? Above all else, what is it? Conventional Egyptology declares that all pyramids were tombs for the pharaohs. The sophistication required technology and cost of the Great Pyramid conflict with the thought that it is simply a tomb. This level of effort for a burial place stretches common sense to the breaking point. To quote Alan Alford, it is so crazy to suggest that the unique design of the Great Pyramid was a legacy from an earlier, more advanced culture. In my view, it is certainly much less crazy than continuing to believe that the pyramid was constructed as a tomb for a dead king. And that he built this totally over-engineered and revolutionary wonder of the world with absolute perfection at the first attempt.