What Did Medieval People Think Of The Pyramids?

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The pyramids of Egypt have fascinated visitors for thousands of years since their creation. They dominate the landscape and are impossible to ignore. But just as long as people have looked upon them, they have also come up with all sorts of ideas as to what they were used for. Medieval Europeans were no different, and although fewer of them were familiar with Egypt's pyramids, those who did see them or heard of them were no less willing to speculate as to their origins. Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/studium.historiae/ Recommendations for further reading: -Demus, Otto. The Mosaics of San Marco in Venice. II: The Thirteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984). -Osborne, John L. "Peter's Grain Heap: A medieval view of the 'Meta Romuli.'" Echos du Monde Antique/Classical Views 30 (1986):111–18. -Wilkinson, John. Jerusalem Pilgrims before the Crusades (Warminster, Eng.: Aris & Phillips, 1977). All images used in this video are either my own, in the public domain, under fair use, or under creative commons (whence they shall be credited appropriately) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/deed.en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Outro music: Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY-SA 4.0 http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100181 #medievalhistory #medieval #middleages #history #educational #egypt #pyramid #cairo #moyenage #herodotus #pyramids #joseph #oldtestament #grain