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OCR: THE CLIMAX OF PYRAMID BUIL DING The pyramids of Khufu. Khafre and Menkaure as well as the Great Sphinx, are the world's most remarkable ancient monuments. As the oldest and only surviving wonder of the original Seven Wonders of the World, they have endured for some .500 years Today they still move and linspire awe ir all but imagine the pyramids P pristine state -before the Romans and Muslims stripped them of their glassy white casing stones before human setlemeni encroached on the sacred plateau; before pollution from modern Egypt obscurec their beauty and before throngs of et setters hawkers and camel drivers disturbed their tranquility They were pure white edifices of exact geometry built to tolerances of 0.01 of an inch, visible from 25 miles away rising majestically from vista overloo ...