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"Unquestionably in the early days perishable wood structures were built, but when stone supplanted wood, you find pyramids being built precisely on the same lines that they were being built in South-East Asia. They were, so far as the staircases were concerned, a copy of what the Babylonians were building 2,000 years before the era of Christ. It is necessary to remember that as Indian civilisation spread eastwards the type of pyramid established by them became fashionable and was built in stone.