Stefan Baumann

Hi, thank you for having me.

Well, yeah, you miss basically...

the human achievements behind all these amazing monuments, as you say.

Like the pyramids is a major example.

All the conspiracy theories at one time talk about the pyramids because they're so unbelievable, huge, and they seem to be perfect.

So too perfect to be made by humans.

But humans achieved this, and that's important to know.

Yeah, it is about looking at the small details about all the evidence.

always keep in mind the whole cultural background.

When you want to explain one monument or one image in tombs or temples or so, you can't just look at it from your modern perspective.

You always have to keep in mind the time and the period and the cultural background.

So archaeology is about taking all the small bits of evidence together and then

have an analysis, come to a conclusion, what happened back then.

Yeah, so one major discovery was, of course,

the workmen village next to the pyramids, what you mentioned, the bakeries and stuff like that, everything that is needed to support such a monument, the construction of such a monument.

And yeah, you mentioned also that we look at the pyramids and say, well, they're

so perfect.

But we also, as archaeologists look at the traces of human work, human people at work leave traces that are not perfect.

And the pyramids are actually not that perfect as it is always pictured.

For instance, one, the sides are not all the same length.