As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
