Handed down by the heavens? Please.

Ray scoffed.

In this era, he saw no great pyramid, no great sphinx. If he shifted forward to the early twentieth century instead, he suspected he'd find modern construction crews pouring concrete and assembling these so-called "wonders of the ancient world" from scratch.

A load of nonsense from a bunch of con artists is what happened.

Not content with just stealing and looting, they'd wrapped themselves in a costume of civilization and lectured everyone el