Map of Cairo. Year 1580, author unknown.
What's interesting about it? Let's skip the minutiae and look at the right side of the map. We see unusually shaped pyramids and a bust of a woman standing on the "table mountains," as scholars call them. But if you look carefully, it does not look like mountains at all. It looks more like the stumps of huge, cut down trees, which have long since become petrified. How big should the saw and the size of the lumberjack be?
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