Miniature Pyramids in 10 000 BC?
“There was nothing diminutive about the 200-by-200-foot miniature set on “10,000 BC.”
The bigger you build it, the better you can build it,” Grüninger says. “The sheer size makes it easier to add the necessary amount of detail and that allows the camera to go closer and closer. It’s easier to get the depth of field. And you don’t want to have a soft, blurry foreground because that immediately makes it look like a miniature, toy train perspective.”
Grüninger’s miniature pyramids blend the historically correct details of Giza with elements of Emmerich’s imagination. “We got hold of all sorts of books about ancient Egypt and stuff like that,” says Grüninger. “But the film has a title ‘10,000 BC,’ so we are creating a fantasy pre-Egyptian world there. Roland actually pretends that there was somebody else putting up the pyramids and the Sphinx and all of that before the Egyptian culture actually modified or altered them.”
An excellent report on the history of attempts to determine the age of the pyramids can be found on the Ancient Egyptian Research Association’s website:
“Archaeologists believe Egypt’s large pyramids are the work of the Old Kingdom society that rose to prominence in the Nile Valley after 3000 B.C. Historical analysis tells us that the Egyptians built the Giza Pyramids in a span of 85 years between 2589 and 2504 BC.
Interest in Egyptian chronology is widespread in both popular and scholarly circles. We wanted to use science to test the accepted historical dates of several Old Kingdom monuments.”
Source: AERA
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