Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.
Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.
Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.