Also, did you know the base to the great pyramid is much older than the pyramid...... Crazy yo! A trip to Egypt is on my bucket list for sure.
Yup, the mysteries and theories abound. It has been an object of my research and on my bucket list since about 1970, but hostilities toward westerners have kept me away.
I made it as far as Tunisia around the turn of the century, but even there my presence was met with mixed reaction. Befriended and embraced by some and the object of hate and aggression from others.
For the most part befriended by those whom I was helping and the focus of attack from those who's incompetence resulted in me being imported from the US as as an engineering consultant in the first place. Not surprising, but the intensity of the aggression was a surprise, as was some of the religious baggage that they attached to it, totally unrelated to our relationship.
Besides pent up hate for a panoply of reasons, in a larger sense what it also demonstrated, was what you get when you educate the population to grade 16 for free and pay for their advanced studies abroad, only to have them return to an economy offering little more than tourist trade.
Most of the wretched excess in the hands of the few, and the bored, idle minds are looking for a cause!