When Moses was alive, the pyramids were a thousand years old . . . . Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy . . . . Here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.
Source: Eternal Egypt, on CBS TV, 28 Jun 1980.
-- Walter Cronkite, (Nov 4 1916-2009), US broadcast journalist; He was considered the preeminent broadcast journalist in the U.S.; Anchored CBS Evening News, 1962-1981.