Resting in peace in the great pyramid of ... Germany

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

BERLIN (AFP) — Every so often somebody comes up with a whimsical plan to make post-communist east Germany economically viable. A fake tropical paradise has gone up near Berlin -- and a pyramid could be next.

Two intellectuals have launched a project to build a copy of the Egyptian pyramids in the declining eastern city of Dessau as a burial site not for a lone king but for five million people.

They say it would grow slowly -- one concrete memorial slab at a time -- but could within a couple of decades dwarf the Great Pyramid of Giza.

"You could certainly see it from space," author Ingo Niermann told AFP.

"There is no reason why it cannot reach 200 to 300 metres (650 to 980 feet) within two to three decades," said his friend, economist Jens Thiel....