Adam glorified the pyramids of Egypt, but he discovers that they are built on the misery of slaves.

亚当为埃及的金字塔而荣耀，但是他发现金字塔是建立在奴隶的不幸之上的。

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"This made more of an impression on me than the pyramids of Giza," he said.

“这给我留下的印象远比吉萨的金字塔要深。”他说。

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Later on Thursday he visited the pyramids before leaving for Germany and France.

周四稍晚时候，他在前往德国与法国之前参观了金字塔。

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He set up pyramids of plates to crash when people passed them, and rigged a mirror in a hat shop so that, when each matron posed simperingly before it, the glass cracked from side to side.

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Perhaps he is neither, just an orphan who carries with him the picture of his handsome parents, killed in a car-crash near the pyramids when he was a boy, together with an abundance of good will which he showers on others.

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Along the way, he exposes readers to early British civilisation, Egyptian pyramids, ancient Assyria and the Kingdom of Benin in the 13th century.

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