Hear the voices of pop's favorite females, including Britteny Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Lopez, Shania Twain and more, set to laser light as dazzling as the divas themselves. Important animals in the zodiac included the hippo and alligator. The Great Pyramid at Giza was probably built around 2480 BC for the Pharaoh Khufu, or to use his Greek name, Cheops. Of the two shafts in the Burial Chamber point, one points north towards the star Thuban which 4500 years ago was the Pole Star. The other shaft points south towards the stars in the constellation of Orion, or as the ancient Egyptians called him, Osiris.
Some men buy sports cars and boats.
Jim Rollings buys scarabs. And beads that once wrapped a mummy's tummy. The executive director of the South Florida Science Museum is so enamored with old treasures that when he buys a necklace and matching earrings, they might not be for his wife. Rollings' mummy beads are made of a mixture of sand and clay and were once strung in a net and wrapped around a mummy. Over the years, the beads aged better than the string they were strung on, and Egyptians found millions of mummy beads along the bottoms of tombs.